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Che, Chevys, and Hemingway's Daiquiris: Cuban Tourism in a Time of Globalisation
Author(s) -
BABB FLORENCE E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2010.00450.x
Subject(s) - tourism , unintended consequences , ethnography , globalization , politics , state (computer science) , political science , inequality , political economy , sociology , economy , development economics , economics , anthropology , law , computer science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , algorithm
In Cuba over the past two decades, diverse and apparently contradictory aspects of tourism have emerged along with state‐led development and market‐driven initiatives. This ethnographic account examines the complex ways in which Cubans and international visitors experience tourism as an economic and cultural force. Despite the unintended consequences of tourism, which has produced growing social inequality and illicit trade, tourism has met surprising success in appealing to desires for both pre‐revolutionary pleasures and enduring revolutionary culture and politics.