. one that excludes the inconveniently placed signifiers of modernity of poverty, environmental degradation, or social and political decay. For Munt, the new middle-class tourists from Western societies have increasingly aestheticized and fetishized developing countries as a tourist destination, and glossed over the realities (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 125-187; Munt, 1994 a; 1994b: 49-60). In this sense, despite