ABSTRACT
The Taj Mahal is one of the most familar tourist sites in the world, and certainly one of
the best-known global icons. Accordingly, any discussion of the Taj requires an
investigation into the ways in which tourist space comes to be represented in particular
ways. In order to contextualise this examination, it is necessary to appreciate how the
contemporary production of tourism involves the commodification of particular spaces
and cultures. Thus the chapter begins with a brief survey of the expansion of global
tourism.
