A Travel Paradise: Tourism Narratives of Robben Island

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Notes

¹ See Kapstein, “A Culture of Tourism,” 115.

² Lichrou, O’Malley, and Patterson, “Place-product or Place Narrative(s)?” 27, 35.

³ See http://www.boundlesssa.com/en

⁴ “Integrated Conservation Management Plan,” 2. Subsequent page references to this text will be included in parentheses in the body of the article.

⁵ Viswanathan, Masks of Conquest.

⁶ This is part of a larger theory of mine that argues for a strong correpondence between the founding acts of tourism, story telling, and colonialism. They construct landscapes and make meaning of what they see through shared exclusionary violences of surveying, possessing, and naming.

⁷ Robben Island Musuem Tours Department, “Visitors Feedback Report,” June 2001, Robbin Island Museum, 3–4. Hereafter, the Visitors Feedback Reports (VFR) will be referenced by date and page number only.

⁸ Ibid., 3.

⁹ Ibid.

¹⁰ VFR, June 2004, 6.

¹¹ VFR, June 2001, 5.

¹² VFR, June 2005, 8.

¹³ Toyer Smith, personal interview, 16 February 2009.

¹⁴ Ibid.

¹⁵ VFR, June 2005, 6.

¹⁶ VFR, June 2002, 5.

¹⁷ VFR, June 2003, 6.

¹⁸ RIM's plan promotes the conservation of oral histories and personal recollections alongside conserving the built and natural environments. Ironically, it was (and is) the political prisoners’ work that makes and conserves both (67).

¹⁹ VFR, July 2003, 6.

²⁰ VFR, July 2002, 6.

²¹ VFR, June 2001, 1.

²² VFR, June 2006, 7.

²³ VFR, July 2002, 8.

²⁴ VFR, June 2001, 10.

²⁵ Ibid., 8.

²⁶ VFR, May 2006, 9.

²⁷ VFR, May 2003, 8.

²⁸ VFR, June 2002, 7.

²⁹ VFR, June 2001, 9.

³⁰ VFR, June 2004, 6.

³¹ VFR, June 2002, 5.

³² VFR, May 2003, 3.

³³ VFR, June 2003, 3.

³⁴ Ibid., 6.

³⁵ VFR, July 2005, 3.

³⁶ VFR, June 2003, 6.

³⁷ Toyer Smith, personal interview, 16 February 2009.

³⁸ VFR, June 2001, 4.

³⁹ VFR, May 2003, 3.

⁴⁰ VFR, May 2006, 4.

⁴¹ VFR, June 2001, 9.

⁴² VFR, May 2003, 8.

⁴³ Robben Island Museum Tours Department, “Consolidated Visitor Feedback,” January–March 2003, 3.

⁴⁴ VFR, June 2003, 7.

⁴⁵ VFR, June 2001, 10.

⁴⁶ VFR, June 2002, 8.

⁴⁷ Lichrou, O’Malley, and Patterson, “Place-product or Place Narrative(s)?” 36.

⁴⁸ Toyer Smith, personal interview, 16 February 2009.