Regarding Fred's thought-provoking comment on tourism and neo-colonialism, please see excerpts and link to an article below which may interest goanetters. George
*************************************************************** "Tourism is both a product of modernity and a direct remnant of the first world�s colonial history. It is linked to modernity in its role as both being enabled by and contributing to, globalization." "This dependency in a tourist economy manifests itself in the subordination of the people, culture and structures of the society to tourist interests." "Tourism also plays a significant role in the continuing economic subordination and dependency of the third world upon the core nations. The first world has a long tradition of forcing first world ideology and concepts upon drastically different third world countries, often their former colonies." "As more tourists and wealthy first-world vacationers frequent a country, inflation and a rise in land prices begin to occur as a result of the strength of first-world currencies and by the disproportionate wealth of the foreigners. This hurts local residents by creating a barrier between their lives and the artificially created world of tourists." "With the spread and intervention of capitalism into Third World societies, tourism has also had the effect of turning Third World places, landscapes and people into commodities. Essentially tourists consume elements of a vacation in the same way as we consume other objects or commodities." See entire article at http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/JOURNALISM/STUDENTS/NTOBEY/Chap11/chap11.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
