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Cuban private entrepreneurship – from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism‐oriented market socialism
Author(s) -
Ana Ruxandra,
Lubiński Oskar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
regional science policy and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1757-7802
DOI - 10.1111/rsp3.12154
Subject(s) - tourism , socialism , professionalization , entrepreneurship , internationalization , context (archaeology) , private sector , market socialism , ideology , economy , state socialism , market economy , economic system , political science , business , economics , economic growth , capitalism , geography , international trade , communism , politics , law , archaeology
The aim of this article is to explore shifts in the role of Cuban private sector within the broader context of tourism economies. Based on ethnographic data collected on two types of private businesses offering their services to tourism—rooms for rent and dance schools—we explore how this formerly peripheral sector of the economy became key in the period of Cuba's transition to market socialism. We explore processes of its internationalization and professionalization while it remains heavily informed by subsistence economies and navigates through shifting regulations of the ideologically socialist state.