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Author Stocker, Karen.

Title Tourism and cultural change in Costa Rica : pitfalls and possibilities / Karen Stocker.

Publication Info. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects -- Costa Rica.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Costa Rica.
Social change -- Costa Rica.
Social change.
Costa Rica -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stocker, Karen. Tourism and cultural change in Costa Rica. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2013 9780739140215 (DLC) 2013010684 (OCoLC)828884613
ISBN 9780739140239 (electronic book)
073914023X (electronic book)
1299688128 (e-book)
9781299688124 (e-book)
9780739140215
0739140213