Terry Pratchett is mocking the tourist with Twoflower - for example when he's first introduced he's "dressed very oddly in a pair of knee-length britches and a shirt in such a violent and vivid conflict of colors that Weasel's fastidious eye was offended even more in the half light."
That's the typical American in Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. (Remember this was written in 1983, a few years before the fad of wearing baggy, over the knee shorts took off, and long before the fad of belting your shorts underneath your buttocks took off. Not that Twoflower would ever have done that.
Two-Flower's luggage is protected by "reflected-sound-as-of-underground-spirits."
That would be "echo-nomics." (The underground spirits being gnomes.)
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