Development tourism: lessons from Cuba
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Main Author: Spencer, Rochelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate ©2010
Series:New directions in tourism analysis
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index
Introduction: Cuba : rhythm, resilience and revolution -- Development and the rise of tourism as a strategy -- Moral routes to a new tourism -- Social development in revolutionary Cuba -- Tourist encounters with endogenous development -- Motivations of new moral tourists -- Transformation and agency in the tourism encounter -- Conclusion: Other transformations : rights-based development to rights-based tourism
"Tourism in Cuba -- described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' -- has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a remarkable approach to tourism, one which often compels tourists to become agents of development through solidarity. Drawing on her experiences of working in an NGO in Cuba, the author uses a multi-sited ethnographic approach to investigate tourism motivations and experiences, and to examine the very nature of development. Her analysis covers a wide range of issues including social change, globalization, social theory, and sustainability. Also discussed is the way in which tourism in Cuba relates to broader debates surrounding transformation, capacity building, social action and solidarity."--Page 4 of cover
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 217 pages)
ISBN:9781409402084
1409402088
9780754675426
0754675424

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