New Perspectives In Caribbean Tourism

Author : Marcella Daye,Donna Chambers,Sherma Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135904357

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New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism by Marcella Daye,Donna Chambers,Sherma Roberts Pdf

The Caribbean is one of the most tourism dependent regions of the world. This edited volume extends beyond the frontiers of normative perspectives of tourism development to incorporate "new" ideas and perspectives that relate to the socio-cultural, political and economic realities of these societies. This edited text therefore explores tourism in the region within the context of key currents of Caribbean thought and critique in relation to issues of dependency, postcolonial interactions, race and class as well as identity and culture. Engaging a range of disciplines and themes, this volume offers a critical examination of the unique experiences, challenges and practices of Caribbean tourism.

Author : Sandra Courtman
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9789766371821

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Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana by Sandra Courtman Pdf

Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana emphasises the significance of the Caribbean in an increasingly globalised social world and draws attention to the contribution that scholarship in Caribbean Studies makes in coming to terms with a multi-cultural heritage. The compilation deliberately ranges in focus across periods, geographies, linguistic divisions and subject matter to present the fruition of significant research projects by 25 researchers from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contributors on the Hispanic, Dutch, African, Indian and Anglophone Caribbean juxtaposed with work on the Caribbean diasporas of the USA, UK, Canada and the Netherlands enrich the text with multiple perspectives.

Author : Andrew Spencer,Peter E. Tarlow
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800713208

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Tourism Safety and Security for the Caribbean by Andrew Spencer,Peter E. Tarlow Pdf

Tourism Safety and Security for the Caribbean examines the security risks posed to the region and the wider economic impacts on the success of this vital industry. The study presents an illuminating new perspective for Tourism and Security Studies scholars interested in the Caribbean context and beyond.

Author : Martin Mowforth,Clive Charlton,Ian Munt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780415423649

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Tourism and Responsibility by Martin Mowforth,Clive Charlton,Ian Munt Pdf

This is an issue-based book that discusses the responsibility or otherwise of tourism activities in the geographic context of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Author : Dennis J. Gayle,Jonathan N. Goodrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317663133

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Tourism Marketing and Management in the Caribbean (RLE Marketing) by Dennis J. Gayle,Jonathan N. Goodrich Pdf

The Caribbean now has one of the largest regional tourism industries in the world amongst developing countries. When originally published this volume was the first to provide a comprehensive discussion of tourism in this part of the world. It begins with an overview of the industry and then examines aspect of tourism marketing and management on a region-by-region basis, covering the Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Cuba. Detailed analysis follows of sectors within the industry, such as heritage and health care, with central issues such as the intense competition between the cruise ship and hotel industries being highlighted. Discussion of the impact of US and EU policies on Caribbean tourism provides an important international perspective. Throughout, the focus is on the contribution of the regional tourism industry to Caribbean economic growth and development.

Author : Rebecca Maria Torres,Janet Henshall Momsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136849220

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Tourism and Agriculture by Rebecca Maria Torres,Janet Henshall Momsen Pdf

Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is one of the oldest and most basic parts of the global economy, while tourism is one of the newest and most rapidly spreading. In the face of current problems of climate change, rising food prices, poverty and a global financial crisis, linkages between agriculture and tourism may provide the basis for new solutions in many countries. A number of challenges, nevertheless, confront the realization of synergies between tourism and agriculture. Tourism and Agriculture examines regional specific cases at the interface between tourism and agriculture, looking at the impacts of rural restructuring, and new geographies of consumption and production. To meet the need for a more comprehensive appreciation of the relationships and interactions between the tourism and agricultural economic sectors, this book consider the factors that influence the nature of these relationships; and explore avenues for facilitating synergistic relationships between tourism and agriculture. These relationships are examined in thirteen chapters through case studies from eastern and western Europe, Japan and the United States and from the developing countries of the Pacific, the Caribbean and Ghana and Mexico. Themes of diversification, economic development, and emerging new forms of production and consumption, are integrated throughout the entire book. This essential volume, built on original research, generates new insights into the relationships between tourism and agriculture and future economic rural development. Edited by leading researchers and academics in the field, this book will be of value to students, researchers and academics interested in tourism, agriculture and rural development.

Author : David Timothy Duval
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134411504

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Tourism in the Caribbean by David Timothy Duval Pdf

This book brings together a high calibre team of international researchers to provide an up-to-date assessment of the scope of tourism and the nature of tourism development in the Caribbean; past, present and future.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317095149

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Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society by John Urry Pdf

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but also to point to new theories and methods by which such lives have to be researched and examined. Such new theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking 'transport' studies as such but are also recasting 'societal' studies as 'transport' so that it comes out of the ghetto and enters mainstream social science.

Author : Chandana Jayawardena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Tourism
ISBN : 976637743X

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Caribbean Tourism by Chandana Jayawardena Pdf

Author : Elvira Pulitano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317331285

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Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean by Elvira Pulitano Pdf

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading of a range of popular works by four well-known writers currently living in the United States: Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Caryl Phillips. Navigating the map of fictional characters, testimonial accounts, and autobiographical experiences, Pulitano draws attention to the lived experience of contemporary diasporic formations. The book offers a provocative re-thinking of socio-scientific analyses of diaspora by discussing the embodied experience of contemporary diasporic communities, drawing on disciplines such as Caribbean, Postcolonial, Diaspora, and Indigenous Studies along with theories on "border thinking" and coloniality/modernity. Contesting restrictive, national, and linguistic boundaries when discussing literature originating from the Caribbean, Pulitano situates the transnational location of Caribbean-born writers within current debates of Transnational American Studies and investigates the role of immigrant writers in discourses of race, ethnicity, citizenship, and belonging. Exploring the multifarious intersections between home, exile, migration and displacement, the book makes a significant contribution to memory and trauma studies, human rights debates, and international law, aiming at a wide range of scholars and specialized agents beyond the strictly literary circle. This volume affirms the humanity of personal stories and experiences against the invisibility of immigrant subjects in most theoretical accounts of diaspora and migration.

Author : Stephen Pratt,David Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317682578

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Tourism in Pacific Islands by Stephen Pratt,David Harrison Pdf

Pacific Island Countries have been shown to be especially vulnerable to such external influences as natural disasters, political unrest and downturns in the global economy and their tourism industries have been notably affected. In particular, they typically have a narrow resource base and a fragile and often vulnerable natural environment. While there is some research on islands and small states, there is a dearth of information on the South Pacific and very little research is being undertaken in the region compared to other geographical regions in the world. This volume brings together current work in Pacific Island tourism. In this collection, three main themes arise: Images of the South Pacific; Socio-economic Impacts of Tourism; and Pacific Island Countries and the Outside World. The first focus is on the question of image, namely, stereotypes of a destination held by tourists and potential tourists, the extent to which residents, for their part, really welcome visitors, and the role tourism might play in changing pre-established images. The second theme is tourism's impacts, notably the economic and socio-cultural effects of international tourism's intrusion in the region which, though often hotly debated, have attracted relatively little empirical research. The third focus is on the challenges of how PICs articulate with their external geo-political and physical environment. These involve existing relations with formal colonial centres, geographical isolation, the need for greater air access to the outside world and for more tourists, and the continuing threat to several PICs of global warming, which increased air travel will inevitably exacerbate. This text will be of interest to tourism students, researchers and academics in the fields of tourism, development studies and cultural studies.

Author : Pippa Biddle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781640124776

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Ours to Explore by Pippa Biddle Pdf

In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism--the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a "West knows best" mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep children in squalid conditions to attract donors to undertrained medical volunteers practicing their skills on patients in developing regions and to those looking for an inspiring selfie, Biddle reveals the hidden costs of the voluntourism complex. Along the way, readers meet inspiring activists and passionate community members, as well as thoughtful former voluntourists who still work to make a difference--just differently. Ours to Explore offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.

Author : Linda L. Lowry
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2878 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483368962

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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism by Linda L. Lowry Pdf

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

Author : Brian G. Boniface,Chris Cooper,Robyn Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080970400

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Worldwide Destinations by Brian G. Boniface,Chris Cooper,Robyn Cooper Pdf

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is a unique text that explores the demand, supply, organisational aspects and resources of every tourism destination in the world. This fifth edition is brought up to date with key features such as: an exploration of current issues such as climate change, economic capacity, "grey" tourism and social impacts new full colour interior, packed iwth helpful pedagogic features, including discussion points and assignements to encourage greater student involvement a companion website is now available at www.routledge.com/cw/boniface and includes interactive, multiple-choice questions for students to test their own learning The book provides thematic chapters at the beginning which detail the geographical knowledge and principles required to understand how to approach the analysis of destinations. The further division of the book into thematic and regional chapters enables the student to carry out a systematic analysis of a particular destination. Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is an invaluable resource for studying every destination in the world as well as the demand, resources and future of the geography of tourism. This thorough guide is a must-have for any tourism student.

Author : Mr.Sebastian Acevedo Mejia,Mr.Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne,Rafael Romeu
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475595727

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Revisiting the Potential Impact to the Rest of the Caribbean from Opening US-Cuba Tourism by Mr.Sebastian Acevedo Mejia,Mr.Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne,Rafael Romeu Pdf

The Cuban revolution and the subsequent US embargo on Cuba helped shape the tourism sector in the Caribbean, facilitating the birth and growth of alternative destinations. Therefore, the apprehension of the Caribbean tourism industry towards a change in US travel policy to Cuba is understandable, but likely unwarranted. The history of tourism in the region has shown that it is possible for all destinations to grow despite large changes in market shares. Our estimations show that liberalizing US-Cuba tourism could result in US arrivals to Cuba of between 3 and 5.6 million, most of it coming from new tourists to the region. We also identify the destinations most at risk of changes in US-Cuba relations.