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Online-Ressource (328 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780739140239
Inhalt:
Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica: Pitfalls and Possibilities examines the consequences-positive, negative, and otherwise-of tourism in four different sites in Costa Rica. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with tourists, tour operators, tourists-turned-settlers, and locals living in tourist destinations, this book seeks to put in conversation with one another these varied perspectives with the aim of presenting forms of tourism beneficial to a
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TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN COSTA RICA; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Methodological Considerations; Chapter 3: Community Portraits: Two Beach Towns; Chapter 4: Nambué, the Chorotega Reservation: Portrait of a Community on the Cusp of Tourism; Chapter 5: Montañosa, the Rainforest Community; Chapter 6: "The Cows Will Be Your University!": Positive Effects of Tourism; Chapter 7: Negative Effects of Tourism; Chapter 8: Performing Local Life in the Reservation; Chapter 9: Performing Identity in the Other Communities of Study
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Chapter 10: Sanitized Tours of Exploitative Work Zones: The Nexus of Tourism and Its AlternativesChapter 11: Striking a Balance: Possibilities for Responsible Tourism; References; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780739140215
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ISBN 9780739140222
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica Pitfalls and Possibilities
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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