“Souvenir Shopping is for Schmucks!”: Exploring Tourists’ Deviant Behavior Through the Items They Bring Back

Tourist misbehavior is well documented in the literature and has predominantly focused on visible, major, or felonious forms of deviance, such as vandalism, violence, theft. We argue for importance considering a more subtle side tourist often tolerated, ignored, even enabled by host communities hospitality employees. Exploring important, because it clandestine less extreme than obvious misbehaviors, yet its prevalence suggests important business environmental implications. undertook in-depth interviews with 47 frequent travelers employed criminological lens, that deviant leisure, to uncover range behaviors focusing accumulation traveling mementos (items tourists bring back from their travels). Two dimensions memento emerged eight misbehavior, each unique motives, practices, Findings point mass appeal these elusive practices. Suggestions practitioners, policy makers, academics are then discussed.