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Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica - Pitfalls and Possibilities (Hardcover, New)
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Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica - Pitfalls and Possibilities (Hardcover, New)
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This book examines the consequences-positive, negative, and
otherwise-of tourism in Costa Rica. Based on ethnographic research
and interviews with tourists, tour operators,
tourists-turned-settlers, and locals living in tourist
destinations, this book brings together these varied perspectives
with the aim of presenting forms of tourism beneficial to all
parties. To examine both pitfalls and positive outcomes of tourism,
it compares modes of tourism in destinations that are locally owned
and foreign owned, ecotourism destinations, beach tourism,
adventure tourism sites, and agrotourism projects. Furthermore, the
author draws from two decades of research in two distinct
communities to trace the ways in which the development of tourism
in one community provided the springboard for changing gender roles
and new opportunities for women, and, in the other, how the promise
of tourism has spurred a cultural revitalization and positive
change in Indigenous identity. Interviews with three generations of
women in one tourist destination show generational changes in
perspectives on tourism, and interviews covering the same time span
show how in an Indigenous reservation poised to enter the heritage
tourism industry, tourism offers a positive alternative to
exploitative forms of labor and the stigma once associated with
Indigeneity in that region. Interviews with locals in all four
sites reveal the ways in which tourism carried out conscientiously
would benefit them. These, juxtaposed with interviews of tourists
regarding what they seek through tourism, offer a means of
designing a mutually beneficial form of tourism. In sum, this book
puts into conversation the varied views of those positioned
differently within the realm of tourism in order to inform tourists
and foreign land owners as to how they might glean the advantages
that such an experience may bring to the traveler, while also
playing up the benefits of these endeavors to local communities,
and minimizing the potential damage these practices may cause.
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