Description
Book SynopsisIn what ways does tourism change the host community? This book offers original insights into the broad and deep influences of tourism, and places them within the historical context of globalisation. Intensive fieldwork spanning many years on a Canary Island has produced a rich portrayal of the community, examining the changes experienced in areas including their working lives, families, identities, local culture, values, attitudes, political structure and economic base. The tourists, predominantly independent, are also examined, and their unique impact analysed. The research emphasises the indigenous experience, and makes cross-cultural comparisons, especially with island communities. It employs the methods of sociocultural anthropology and includes the multidisciplinary findings of tourism studies: in doing so it is innovative and challenges standard understandings of the influence of specific types of tourism on small communities.
Trade ReviewDonald Macleod’s Tourism, globalization and cultural change is a solid ethnography, based on research spanning a dozen years. The study contains much that is new and interesting.
-- Oriol Pi-Sunyer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11:4, December 2005
This book offers insights into the influences of tourists and tourism on the host community and places them within the historical context of globalisation.
* CAB Abstracts, 2004 *
The book is well-written and painstakingly researched… This is a valuable and balanced contribution to attempts to understand and analyse tourism and globalisation in one setting.
* Heather Mair, Annals of Tourism Research 32, No 2. *
Table of ContentsPART ONE: THE ISSUES, THE COMMUNITY AND THE TOURISTS
1. Tourism, Globalization and Cultural Change
2. Valle Gran Rey: A Changing Destination
3. The Tourists: Types and Motivation
PART TWO: THE INFLUENCE OF TOURISM
4. Work and Property
5. Power and Conflict
6. Social Identity
7. Family and Belief
8. The Ability of Tourism to Change Culture
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