Over the past hundred years, tourism has evolved into the world's
biggest business, and few countries today question the common
wisdom that the road to economic development is paved with tourist
dollars. Yet questions should be raised, Patricia Goldstone argues
in this path-breaking book on the social and political impacts of
tourism. She examines for the first time the close connections
between business and politics as government and industry leaders
work together to reengineer political trouble spots into tourist
destinations in places like Ireland, Turkey, and Cuba. She also
probes the impact of tourism on diverse cultures.
In a keenly perceptive account of the history of tourism in the
twentieth century, the book tells how and why tourism aligned
itself with political power, how it became embedded within such
nontourist institutions as the World Bank, and how since World War
II it has become an instrument of international development policy.
In detailed case studies that are also compelling travel
narratives, Goldstone documents the effects of tourism on local
people, including its tendency to lead governments toward greater
social repression. She offers fascinating insights into the ironies
of modern tourism -- how, for example, it can insulate tourists
from the very things they seek to encounter, and how, despite its
preservational efforts, tourism can affect a culture in complex,
sometimes troubling, ways.
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