Holiday in Mexico : critical reflections on tourism and tourist encounters /

Collection provides analysis of the tourist industry in Mexico, examining its origins, promoters, and power relations, and showing how Mexico used its cultural capital and the development of its tourism industry to modernize.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berger, Dina, Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:American encounters/global interactions.
Temas:
Tourism > Mexico.
Americans > Travel > Mexico.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Americans > Travel.
International relations.
Tourism.
Tourismus
Mexico > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Mexico.
Mexico.
United States.
Mexiko
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: tourism studies and the tourism dilemma / Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood
  • The U.S./Mexican war and the beginnings of American tourism in Mexico / Andrea Boardman
  • Teotihuacán: showcase for the centennial / Christina Bueno
  • On the selling of Rey Momo : early tourism and the marketing of carnival in Veracruz / Andrew Grant Wood
  • Goodwill ambassadors on holiday : tourism, diplomacy, and Mexico/United States relations / Dina Berger
  • Behind the noir border : tourism, the vice racket, and power relations in Baja California's border zone, 1938/65 / Eric M. Schantz
  • Fun in Acapulco? the politics of development on the Mexican Riviera / Andrew Sackett
  • Colonial outpost to artists' Mecca: conflict and collaboration in the development of San Miguel de Allende's tourism industry / Lisa Pinley Covert
  • José Cuervo and the gentrified worm : food, drink, and the touristic consumption of Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
  • Cancún and the campo : indigenous migration and tourism development in the Yucatán Peninsula / M. Bianet Castellanos
  • Marketing Mexico's great masters : folk art tourism and the neoliberal politics of exhibition / Mary K. Coffey
  • Golfing in the desert : Los Cabos and post-PRI tourism in Mexico / Alex M. Saragoza
  • The beach and beyond : observations from a travel writer on dreams, decadence, and defense / Barbara Kastelein
  • Conclusion: should we stay or should we go? reflections on tourism past and present / Andrew Grant Wood and Dina Berger.

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