The Challenge and Response to Global Tourism in the Post-modern Era: The Commodification, Reconfiguration and Mutual Transformation of Habana Vieja, Cuba

Nick Bailey
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Nick Bailey: School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS, UK, baileyn@wmin.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2008, vol. 45, issue 5-6, 1079-1096

Abstract: There is a growing literature on the symbolic and cultural meanings of tourism and the ways in which cities are increasingly competing for tourists through the promotion of cultural assets and different forms of spectacle in the `tourist bubble'. To date, research on the role and impact of tourism in cities has largely been confined to those in Western, post-industrial economies. This paper examines the growth of cultural tourism in the central area of Havana, Cuba, and explores the range of unique, devolved, state-owned enterprises that are attempting to use tourism as a funding mechanism to achieve improvements in the social and cultural fabric of the city for the benefit of residents. The paper concludes with an assessment of the implications of this example for our understanding of how the pressures for restructuring and commodification can be moderated at the city level.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098008089854

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