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While the concept and study of postcolonialism has informed cultural theorizing for over two decades, it has only more recently begun to garner interest in the intellectual terrain of tourism studies (Hall and Tucker, 2004a). Studies of tourism in the less developed countries, concerns over identity and representation, and theorizing over the cultural, political, and economic nature and implications of tourism encounters, have increasingly been referring to postcolonial discourse. However, the title of this chapter is infused with ambiguity and tension. They arise due to different usages of the concept, for instance, between the use of the term postcolonialism to simply mean neocolonialism and a concept that could better be called critical postcolonialism. Furthermore, postcolonialism represents both the state of being “post” or “after” the condition of being (or perhaps even becoming) a colony and, importantly, a reflexive …