American Manufactured Traditions And Cultural Transformations By Schwartz

Just like modern day tourists, the tourism industry has been on a steady, fast paced journey due to technological evolution. With the affordability and easy accessibility, traveling potential has greatly increased. Sometimes, it is the destination that matters along with the people you go on the voyage with. This paper will analyze Isla Holbox as a cultural destination.

Trask is able to use logos to prove how tourism has affected the Hawaiian culture. Trask refers to Hawaii as a “She” who “Rubs off” on the visitor with her magical presence. The beauty of Hawaii is used as an escape from “Rawness and violence” for most Americans though, Trask mentions that the land has a “Western sexual sickness” (Trask 1993). “Of course, all this hype is necessary to hide the truth about tourism, the awful exploitative truth that the industry is the major cause of environmental degradation, low wages, land dispossession, and the highest cost of living in the United States” (Trask 1993). Trask says that the areas of Hawaii which were “sacred” to the Hawaiian’s have now been turned into top of the line hotels. The beaches that were once full of fishermen and their nets are used for recreational activities like surfing getting a tan and jet skiing. On most of the beaches owned by resorts, the beaches are reserved for hotel residences only. In the essay, Trask gives the readers logos as to how tourism is changing the land. For example, thirty years ago the ratio of Hawaiians outnumbered the tourist 2:1. Today,

In “The Ugly Tourist” by Jamaica Kincaid, tourism is thought as a disgusting and an extremely harmful industry. In her perspective, it allows first world citizens to escape and marvel at the simplest and most ordinary things. Although there is some truth in what Jamaica Kincaid describes to the reader, I believe there is a prejudiced view towards the tourist themselves. Kincaid’s essay about the ugliness and affects of being a tourist contrasts everything I’ve experienced being a tourist in Italy and Greece.

Elaine Potter Richardson a.k.a. Jamaica Kincaid, was one of the staff writers for the New Yorker who mostly wrote for the magazine that often-chronicled Caribbean culture. One of her work was “The Ugly Tourist” which was included in the opening chapter of “A Small Place,” and appeared in Harper’s in 1988. Kincaid’s essay talks about how it feels to be a tourist which she refers “the ugliest thing in the world.” The piece was rejected by the editor of the New Yorker because of being “too angry.” Within the composition, it’s obvious that Kincaid’s largest target is the economic structure of the dysfunctional tourism or in other words, she speaks directly to “you,” the reader. She even criticizes tourists in a resentful and ferociously pitched way that is somewhat troubling for some readers, and not obviously what she intends. Overall, Kincaid’s work doesn’t succeed to persuade his readers by failing to construct her ethos, pathos and logos.

In Thomas King’s novel, Truth and Bright Water, the ideas of tourism and cultural appropriation are prevalent in the novel. The definition of cultural appropriation is “The unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society” (Oxford Dictionary). In the novel, tourism and cultural appropriation are illustrated during Indian Days with the ability to reenact shooting buffalo, the selling of homemade Indigenous items such as dream catchers, and the way the Indigenous people talk and act when they are interacting with the non-Indigenous people. All the activities and items that are present at the Indian Days’ is because the tourists expect it to be there. Additionally, cultural appropriation is also present in the Canadian society today with how the clothing is worn and portrayed by non-Indigenous people and how it is insensitive to the Indigenous people of Canada.

The government has been devoting much time and money to the developing tourist resorts because they are a main source of the growing economy. On the other hand, “[m]any local inhabitants sense a loss of local hegemony and fear that tourism is disrupting the social fabric of community life” (Freitag). As a result of her extreme poverty before she came to America, Yadiris feels that one of her hardest parts of adjusting in America was the city life because she was born and raised in a small town, where her floors were cement and her roof was a piece of scrap metal. She went on to tell me how they were only permitted an hour of electricity a day causing food to spoil faster and allowed for no hot water. While the government is putting money into the many extravagant tourist resorts, the Dominican Republic’s inhabitants are living in shams with few schools or health clinics left after tropical

And it must not be forgotten, that knowledge also includes an understanding of one’s own culture, nation, and personal history which might be represented by a public monument. Yet Antigua lacks all of these marks that may indicate to a vacationer, that there, knowledge dwells. Then Kincaid abruptly and sarcastically shifts the subject to the beauty of an island. What does a lack of education, medical and technological advance, and culture matter in an island so beautiful? Why would “you,” a tourist, care about the absence of knowledge in “your” vacation destination? Kincaid successfully points out in a mordant tone that, absurdly, a lack of knowledge in Antigua is considered unimportant in wake of the tourist-attracting splendor of the island.

The Dominican Republic is the right example in the Caribbean for a relative late tourism development. In comparison with other island destinations, the Dominican Republic was politically affected and became unstable (Freitag, 1994: 538).

By the late 18th century, Cuba prospered because of its abundance of sugar. Cuba started importing and exporting sugar to neighboring countries including the U.S. (Which they still do today)

The tourist-host interaction during excursion or day-trips, which are organized by tour operators or excursion centres within resorts, has some positive impacts on local community. More precisely, this interaction forced the Dominicans to adapt to the new international standards and fostered pride in cultural traditions. Moreover,

Material and nonmaterial cultures differ from one location to another because people in different locations, whether they be in the United States, or in other countries place certain meanings, and ideas on different things, and have certain values, and beliefs that are specific to their culture. As locations change, so do the cultures and the values and beliefs that are present in the cultures.

From the start of “A Small Place,” the author establishes an unsettling position for the reader by using second person perspective to give the audience a personal experience, “The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being” (Kincaid, 14). The act of being the tourist in respect to Kincaid's statement is being unaware of the surroundings and people who reside in this country you refer to as a paradise. She pushes the audience out of their comfort zone to an unsettling acknowledgment of ignorance - if you have traveled and expressed these behaviors. The author presents the idea that the act of traveling with the mindset that indigenous people are benefiting is a form of self-justification rather than reality. Kincaid acknowledges the audience’s ignorance of the situation as an institutional one that educated you to have this mindset. She describes this situation the people of Antigua endured, as something you were not taught, which exonerates your oblivious demeanor toward your surroundings,

This paper explores a great number of academic research journals and databases on the impact that the tourism industry has on the countries in the Caribbean. Tourism impacts the Caribbean in three different sections. Tourism has a social impact that allows for increases in revenue, jobs, and service for the people living there. Tourism’s cultural impact allows the history and heritage of the Caribbean to be acknowledged and practiced not only here but around the world as tourists come and go. Tourism’s environmental impact effects the natural and geographical diversity that can only be found in these countries. Although tourism brings about many advantages in all three categories, there are still negatives attributes that appear from tourism that must be handled properly to maintain a successful industry. This paper examines 12 different research journals that suggest all of the positives and negatives of tourism in the Caribbean and how they can effect not only the tourism industry but the area in which they are practiced.

Gregory explains about the theme of “Luxury Tourism and the political economy dominated by those with power.” The purpose of this chapter is to provide discussion on the hiring of the natives in the Dominican Republic. The thesis of the chapter is to explain how the riff-raff are arising from the problem of the luxury tourism having little contribution to the local economies.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry