Tourism's Intimate Economies
New research on Caribbean tourism solidly locates it within the regional shift from "incentive-induced exports" like bananas to "service-based exports" like data processing, offshore finance, and novel forms of mass tourism (Mullings 2004:294; Duval 2004). Earlier studies may hav...
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ftcdlib:qt1sd8b78d 2023-05-15T15:34:26+02:00 Tourism's Intimate Economies Maurer, WM 97 - 103 2006-02-01 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd8b78d english eng eScholarship, University of California qt1sd8b78d http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd8b78d Attribution (CC BY): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Maurer, WM. (2006). Tourism's Intimate Economies. NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 80(1/2), 97 - 103. UC Irvine: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd8b78d article 2006 ftcdlib 2018-07-13T22:52:11Z New research on Caribbean tourism solidly locates it within the regional shift from "incentive-induced exports" like bananas to "service-based exports" like data processing, offshore finance, and novel forms of mass tourism (Mullings 2004:294; Duval 2004). Earlier studies may have made mention of the similarities between plantation economies and tourism development, but new models like the all-inclusive resort demonstrate a near identity of form and structure with plantation systems: foreign dominance over ownership and profit leaves little multiplier effect for the Caribbean islands playing host to enclaved resorts. Agricultural exports have been in free fall since the end of preferential trade protocols, and export manufacturing after the North American Free Trade Agreement is in steep decline. If new service economies seemed to offer a solution to economic and social disorder, the reaction to the events of September 11, 2001 demonstrated the fragility of service-based exports and, in particular, of new kinds of tourism. It took four years for international tourism to rebound to pre-9/ 11 levels; 1 with the perceived threat of SARS and avian flu, as well as the Iraq war and the weak U.S. dollar, official projections of the industry's near future are "cautiously optimistic." Article in Journal/Newspaper Avian flu University of California: eScholarship |
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New research on Caribbean tourism solidly locates it within the regional shift from "incentive-induced exports" like bananas to "service-based exports" like data processing, offshore finance, and novel forms of mass tourism (Mullings 2004:294; Duval 2004). Earlier studies may have made mention of the similarities between plantation economies and tourism development, but new models like the all-inclusive resort demonstrate a near identity of form and structure with plantation systems: foreign dominance over ownership and profit leaves little multiplier effect for the Caribbean islands playing host to enclaved resorts. Agricultural exports have been in free fall since the end of preferential trade protocols, and export manufacturing after the North American Free Trade Agreement is in steep decline. If new service economies seemed to offer a solution to economic and social disorder, the reaction to the events of September 11, 2001 demonstrated the fragility of service-based exports and, in particular, of new kinds of tourism. It took four years for international tourism to rebound to pre-9/ 11 levels; 1 with the perceived threat of SARS and avian flu, as well as the Iraq war and the weak U.S. dollar, official projections of the industry's near future are "cautiously optimistic." |
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