The Business of Leisure

Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

2021
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2340-1 (ISBN)

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The Business of Leisure critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hospitality industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Considering tourism from early sojourners to contemporary dark tourism thrill seekers, contributors to The Business of Leisure examine key economic, political, social, and environmental issues. A number of eminent scholars in the field draw on original research focusing on Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. In addition to describing key aspects of industry development in a variety of settings, contributors also consider diverse ways in which histories of travel relate to larger political and cultural questions.

Andrew Grant Wood is the Stanley Rutland Professor of American History at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870–1927 and Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography. Contributors include: Fernando Armas Asín, Rodrigo Booth, Félix Manuel Burgos, Meri L. Clark, Rocio Gomez, Kenneth R. Kincaid, Elizabeth Manley, Mark Rice, Anadelia Romo, Blake C. Scott, Evan Ward, Andrew Grant Wood.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Travel History’s Checkered Past as Prelude to Future Catastrophe?
Andrew Grant Wood
Part 1. Burgeoning International Travel
1. From the Andes to the Alps: Colombian Writers on Travels in Europe
Meri L. Clark
2. Railroads and Steamships: Foreign Investment in the Early Development of Peruvian Tourism, 1900–1930
Fernando Armas Asín
3. Changing Caribbean Routes: The Rise of International Air Travel
Blake C. Scott
4. From the “Romance of Industry” to the “National Soul”: Promoting Travel in the Pan American Union
Anadelia Romo
Part 2. Developing National Tourism
5. The Making of an Elite Tourist Enclave: Viña del Mar’s Miramar Beach, Chile (1872–1910)
Rodrigo Booth
6. “To Know Peru Is to Admire It”: National Tourism Promotion and Populism in Peru, 1930–1948
Mark Rice
7. Domestic Tourism in Golden-Age Veracruz, Mexico
Andrew Grant Wood
8. The Hotel Casino Project That Put Ecuador’s Tourism Hopes on Pause
Kenneth R. Kincaid
Part 3. Politics, Projects, and Postwar Possibilities
9. An Alliance for Tourists: The Transformation of Guatemalan Tourism Development, 1935–1982
Evan Ward
10. “Created by God” (or Columbus?) for Tourism: Building Tourism Fantasy in the Dominican Republic, 1966–1978
Elizabeth Manley
Part 4. Postmodern Ironies and Dark Tourism
11. Mina El Edén and Dark Tourism in Zacatecas, Mexico
Rocio Gomez
12. Netflix Narcos and Narco-tours: Film Tourism Meets Dark Tourism in Medellín, Colombia
Félix Manuel Burgos
List of Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2020
Zusatzinfo	28 photographs, 12 illustrations, 3 maps, 1 graph, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-2340-3 / 1496223403
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-2340-1 / 9781496223401
Zustand	Neuware