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Publisher
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Duke University Press, |
Pages
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393 p. : |
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Subject
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Tourism Mexico. |
Released
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2010. |
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Language
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eng |
ISBN
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9780822345718 |
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With its archaeological sites, colonial architecture, pristine beaches, and alluring cities, Mexico has long been an attractive destination for travelers. The tourist industry ranks third in contributions to Mexico's gross domestic product and provides more than five percent of total employment nationwide. Holiday in Mexico takes a broad historical and geographical look at Mexico, covering tourist destinations from Tijuana and Acapulco and the development of tourism from the 1840s to the present day. Scholars in a variety of fields offer a complex and critical view of tourism in Mexico by examining its origins, promoters, and participants. Essays include research on prototourist American soldiers of the mid-nineteenth century, archaeologists who excavated Teotihuácan, porteño business owners who marketed Carnival in 1920s Veracruz, American tourists in Mexico City who promoted goodwill during the Second World War, American retirees who settled San Miguel de Allende, restaurateurs who created an "authentic" cuisine of Central Mexico, indigenous market vendors of Oaxaca who shaped the local tourist identity, Mayan service workers who migrated to work in Cancun hotels, and local officials who vied to develop the next "it" spot in Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas. Including cutting-edge studies on food, labor, art, diplomacy, business, and politics, this collection illuminates the many processes and individuals that comprise the tourism industry. Holiday in Mexico shows tourism to be a complicated set of interactions and outcomes that reveals much about the nature of economic, social, cultural, and environmental change in Greater Mexico over the past two centuries. Contributors. Dina Berger, Andrea Boardman, Christina Bueno, M. Bianet Castellanos, Mary K. Coffey, Lisa Pinley Covert, Barbara Kastelein, Jeffrey Pilcher, Andrew Sackett, Alex Saragoza, Eric M. Schantz, Andrew Grant Wood
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