Tourism And Informal Encounters In Cuba

Author : Valerio Simoni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782389490
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba written by Valerio Simoni and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores the promises and expectations of tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to the challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Notions of informal encounter and relational idiom illuminate ambiguous experiences of tourism harassment, economic transactions, hospitality, friendship, and festive and sexual relationships. Comparing these various connections, the author shows the potential of touristic encounters to redefine their moral foundations, power dynamics, and implications, offering new insights into how contemporary relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

Author : P. Burns
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845934261
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism Development written by P. Burns and published by CABI. This book was released on 2008 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from scholars evaluating tourism as a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic inequalities in poor countries. It takes a look at the successes and failures of tourism in this role, and considers why tourism as a catalyst for economic development can be a controversial device.

Author : Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317009517
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism Encounters and Controversies written by Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiplicity of tourism encounters provide some of the best available occasions to observe the social world and its making(s). Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of development, conservation, policy and destination management. Throughout the book, encounters and controversies are investigated from a poststructuralist and relational approach as complex and emerging, seeing the roles and characteristics of related actors as co-constituted. Inspired by post-actor-network theory and related research, the studies include the social as well as the material, but also multiplicity and ontological politics when examining controversial matters or events.

Author : Lauren Duffy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638655
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Cuba written by Lauren Duffy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba has experienced many social, economic, and political changes since Raul Castro retained presidency of the island nation in 2008. This comprehensive volume examines how Cuba has restructured some of its core economic policies in order to tackle stagnation; these include allowing for more legalized private enterprises, reducing the number of State-employed workers, and fostering additional outside investments. The authors explore the surge of entrepreneurial activity in tourism among Cuban residents due to these reforms, whether that be offering new tourism products or expanding traditional ones. Though the current diplomatic climate suggests continued uncertainty, the ripple effect of a potentially thawing relationship between Cuba and the USA resulted in an unexpected surge of international tourists wishing to experience Cuba before it opened to the American travel market. This book highlights the factors that are influencing, and in some cases complicating, tourism planning and development in Cuba. The authors explore a wide range of topics including tourism and land-use policy, competitiveness, responsible practices, gender and ethical advertising, the role of tour guides, emergence of casa particulares, experiential learning and solidarity, and authenticity through local art. This book will interest students, researchers, politicians and investors with a focus on Cuba. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Planning & Development.

Author : Kim E Kozak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626325371
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger Encounters written by Kim E Kozak and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic intersection of outsiders into the private spaces of daily life is the subject of this book, which details the physical and social adjustments of the owners and visitors of casas particulares. The work includes a background history of international tourism in Cuba before and after the revolution, as well as the attractions of Trinidad de Cuba, the site of the study, for tourists. The book then delves into the micro-geography of domestic and everyday spaces in casas particulares with thorough and engaging accounts by tourists and owners navigating this new territory.

Author : Naomi M. Leite
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498516343
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethnography of Tourism written by Naomi M. Leite and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines the emergence, development, and future of tourism ethnography, emphasizing the interpretive-humanistic approach honed by anthropologist Edward Bruner. Original chapters by thirteen leading anthropologists critically engage theories and concepts including authenticity, the touristic borderzone, and contested sites.

Author : Christian Groes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338617
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Mobilities written by Christian Groes and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.

Author : Dunja Fehimovic
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498568289
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Branding Latin America written by Dunja Fehimovic and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As public and private sectors become stakeholders, nation-states become corporations, interests become strategic objectives, and identities become brands, branding emerges as a key feature of the pervasiveness of market logic in today’s world. Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance offers a sustained critical analysis of these transformations, which see identities deliberately (re)defined according to the principle of competition and strategically (re)oriented towards the market. Through context-sensitive case studies that foreground a specific, under examined set of practices and concepts, this volume draws particular attention not only to the reconfigurations of citizenship, identity, and culture according to an insidious logic of market competitiveness, but also to the ways in which different actors resist, survive, and even thrive in such a context. In so doing, it illuminates the ambivalent relationships between the local, national, and global; the individual and collective; the public and private; and the economic, political, and cultural landscapes that characterize contemporary Latin America and the wider world.

Author : Bert Hoffmann
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3847416928
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba written by Bert Hoffmann and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die tiefe Wirtschaftskrise in Folge der Corona-Pandemie stellt Kubas Sozialismus vor eine ungeahnte Belastungsprobe. Die Regierung in Havanna hat eine grundlegende Reform von Wirtschaft, Institutionengefüge und Sozialsystem auf die Agenda gesetzt. Der Band vereint Beiträge führender internationaler Experten und von der Insel selbst, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven die Herausforderungen analysieren, vor denen Kuba heute steht.

Author : Linda L. Lowry
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483368963
Total Pages : 2878 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism written by Linda L. Lowry and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 2878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a global and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism brings together a team of international scholars to examine the travel and tourism industry, which is expected to grow at an annual rate of four percent for the next decade. In more than 500 entries spanning four comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia examines the business of tourism around the world paying particular attention to the social, economic, environmental, and policy issues at play. The book examines global, regional, national, and local issues including transportation, infrastructure, the environment, and business promotion. By looking at travel trends and countries large and small, the Encyclopedia analyses a wide variety of challenges and opportunities facing the industry. In taking a comprehensive and global approach, the Encyclopedia approaches the field of travel and tourism through the numerous disciplines it reaches, including the traditional tourism administration curriculum within schools of business and management, economics, public policy, as well as social science disciplines such as the anthropology and sociology. Key features include: More than 500 entries authored and signed by key academics in the field Entries on individual countries that details the health of the tourism industry, policy and planning approaches, promotion efforts, and primary tourism draws. Additional entries look at major cities and popular destinations Coverage of travel trends such as culinary tourism, wine tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, geotourism, slow tourism, heritage and cultural-based tourism, sustainable tourism, and recreation-based tourism Cross-references and further readings A Reader’s Guide grouping articles by disciplinary areas and broad themes