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Author Stocker, Karen

Title Tourism and cultural change in Costa Rica : pitfalls and possibilities / Karen Stocker
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman and Littlefield Pub. Group, Incorporated, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages)
Contents Ch. 1 Introduction -- ch. 2 Methodological Considerations -- ch. 3 Community Portraits: Two Beach Towns -- ch. 4 Nambue, the Chorotega Reservation: Portrait of a Community on the Cusp of Tourism -- ch. 5 Montanosa, the Rainforest Community -- ch. 6 "The Cows Will Be Your University!": Positive Effects of Tourism -- ch. 7 Negative Effects of Tourism -- ch. 8 Performing Local Life in the Reservation -- ch. 9 Performing Identity in the Other Communities of Study -- ch. 10 Sanitized Tours of Exploitative Work Zones: The Nexus of Tourism and Its Alternatives -- ch. 11 Striking a Balance: Possibilities for Responsible Tourism
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index
Notes English
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects -- Costa Rica
Social change -- Costa Rica
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TRAVEL -- Budget.
TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
Social change
Social conditions
Tourism -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Costa Rica -- Social conditions
Subject Costa Rica
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675645
ISBN 9780739140239
073914023X
1299688128
9781299688124
0739140221
9780739140222