This article examines certain kinds of travel and tourism as extensions of colonial and examples of neocolonial forms of Orientalist engagement between the global North and global South. Focusing on areas that border the Indian Ocean, and the South Asian context in particular, I interrogate the gendered, racial, and geopolitical attachments that have historically drawn and continue to draw travelers to the region for tourism. I refer to these attachments as cartographies of salvation. In connecting the history and representations of travel to the area to the forms of leisure and spiritual tourism popularized by the 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, I argue that the Indian Ocean region remains for many a paternalistic endeavor or an exotic playground, where one can project a sense of purpose or indulge in an escapist fantasy. This article combines critical tourism studies, feminist ethnography and theory, and critical race studies.

本文考察了某些旅行和旅游业，它们是殖民主义的延伸，是全球北方与全球南方之间东方主义参与的新殖民主义形式的例子。我主要关注与印度洋接壤的地区，尤其是南亚地区，我询问历史上吸引并继续吸引旅行者前往该地区旅游的性别，种族和地缘政治依恋。我将这些附件称为救恩制图。通过将2006年回忆录《吃，祈祷，爱》中流行的休闲和精神旅游形式联系到该地区的旅行历史和表征中，我认为印度洋地区仍然是许多家长式活动或异国情调的游乐场，在那里人们可以表现出目的感或沉迷于逃避现实的幻想中。本文结合了批判性旅游研究，女权民族志和理论以及批判种族研究。