This article examines the impact of tourism on a coastal community in Kenya within the framework of a series of exchanges between Kenyans and tourists and among Kenyans themselves. The goal of this article is to describe and analyze the processes of demand, production, and consumption within the specific context of tourism in Kenya and to relate these processes to larger theoretical and empirical concerns relating to the nature of exchange between the developed and underdeveloped world. Ethnographic fieldwork is used to examine the experiences of a specific group of Kenyans for whom exposure to tourists is intense, knowledge of tourists required, and the impact of tourism immediate.
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