(Paper Abstract)
Tourism in many senses is a pilgrimage. Tourists come as pilgrims to a land, culture and people. No tourism works without an informed gaze (Michel Foucault) . Tourists are informed about the place, culture and the people they visit by Governments and other stake holders in the tourism Industry. The informed gaze becomes the eye of power that gives power to the eye of the tourists. Unfortunately, when the host community is displaced and is unable play host to the visiting tourist, the hosting community is , then, museumized by the gaze/ look of the visiting tourists ( Jean Paul Satre ). Hosting community is not a homo docilis . The hosting community nurtures a desire for a counter gaze ( Emanuel Levinas and Jacques Lacan) of the hosting community that contests as well as calls for responsibility. This paper attempts to study the dynamics of the eye of power and power of the eye as it manifests in the context of tourism in Goa and strives to propose how the hosting community can truly become a welcome to the pilgrims who arrive as tourists in Goa .
