A tourist is someone who travels out of their usual environment usually for a short period of time. Tourists usually travel either to another country or place, for leisure, recreation, or business purposes. More often a tourist travels for pleasure and enjoys sightseeing and staying in hotels. People often see the act of traveling for pleasure as a luxury, since not everyone has the time or money to travel. A tourist attraction is frequently referred to as a physical or cultural feature of a particular place that individual travelers or tourists perceive as a possibility of meeting one or more of their specific leisure-related needs. Throughout the course the class has focused on parts of the Caribbean, such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The assigned readings have overall enhanced the class’s knowledge about the Caribbean, while also giving the students a sense of what it feels like to be a tourist of a foreign place. Each of the sources above contributes to the tourists and natives experience in a different way, although they each focus on the Caribbean. Themes of tourists expectations when they travel, the luxury of traveling, natives reactions to tourists and the different powers that both tourists and natives have in the Caribbean are expressed through Caribbean literature, poems and media.