UID:
almafu_9959238788302883
Format:
1 online resource (328 p.)
ISBN:
0-7391-4022-1
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0-7391-4023-X
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-68812-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7391-4021-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
