Development Tourism

Lessons from Cuba

Rochelle Spencer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25025-3 (ISBN)

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This book brings an ethnographic and theoretical awareness to the field of tourism studies in the extraordinary development context of Cuba. In so doing, it provides valuable insights and lessons for extending the field of scholarly tourism research.

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.

Dr Rochelle Spencer is a research fellow at the Centre for Research on Social inclusion. Macquarie University, Australia

Prologue; Introduction; Part I Critical Perspectives Underpinning Development and Tourism; Chapter 1 Development and the Rise of Tourism as a Strategy; Chapter 2 Moral Routes to a New Tourism; Part II On the Ground; Chapter 3 Social Development in Revolutionary Cuba; Chapter 4 Tourist Encounters with Endogenous Development; Part III Rights-based Tourists in Cuba; Chapter 5 Motivations of New Moral tourists; Chapter 6 Transformation and Agency in the Tourism Encounter; Conclusion;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Tourism Analysis
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-25025-2 / 1138250252
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25025-3 / 9781138250253
Zustand	Neuware