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1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Costa Rica.
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Tourism -- Social aspects. |
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Costa Rica. |
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Social change -- Costa Rica.
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Social change. |
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Costa Rica -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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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) |
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073914023X (electronic book) |
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1299688128 (e-book) |
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9781299688124 (e-book) |
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9780739140215 |
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0739140213 |
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