Tourism and culture change: A symposium

The paper summarizes seven articles presented at the 1975 meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, in a symposium entitled Tourism and Culture Change. Three main foci of research are discussed: The Traveler per se; the diverse impacts of tourism upon cultures in Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), the island of Myconos (Greece) and among the Mamainde Indians (Mato Grosso, Brazil); and the role and administration of the Polynesian Cultural Center (Hawaii) as an “ethnic model” and as a laboratory of cultural conservation.