With its archaeological sites, colonial architecture, pristine
beaches, and alluring cities, Mexico has long been an attractive
destination for travelers. The tourist industry ranks third in
contributions to Mexico's gross domestic product and provides more
than 5 percent of total employment nationwide. "Holiday in Mexico"
takes a broad historical and geographical look at Mexico, covering
tourist destinations from Tijuana to Acapulco and the development
of tourism from the 1840s to the present day. Scholars in a variety
of fields offer a complex and critical view of tourism in Mexico by
examining its origins, promoters, and participants.
Essays feature research on prototourist American soldiers of the
mid-nineteenth century, archaeologists who excavated Teotihuacan,
business owners who marketed Carnival in Veracruz during the 1920s,
American tourists in Mexico City who promoted goodwill during the
Second World War, American retirees who settled San Miguel de
Allende, restaurateurs who created an "authentic" cuisine of
Central Mexico, indigenous market vendors of Oaxaca who shaped the
local tourist identity, Mayan service workers who migrated to work
in Cancun hotels, and local officials who vied to develop the next
"it" spot in Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas. Including insightful
studies on food, labor, art, diplomacy, business, and politics,
this collection illuminates the many processes and individuals that
constitute the tourism industry. "Holiday in Mexico" shows tourism
to be a complicated set of interactions and outcomes that reveal
much about the nature of economic, social, cultural, and
environmental change in Greater Mexico over the past two
centuries.
"Contributors." Dina Berger, Andrea Boardman, Christina Bueno,
M. Bianet Castellanos, Mary K. Coffey, Lisa Pinley Covert, Barbara
Kastelein, Jeffrey Pilcher, Andrew Sackett, Alex Saragoza, Eric M.
Schantz, Andrew Grant Wood
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