The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Business of Leisure

critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hospitality industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Considering tourism from early sojourners to contemporary dark tourism thrill seekers, contributors to The Business of Leisure examine key economic, political, social, and environmental issues. A number of eminent scholars in the field draw on original research focusing on Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. In addition to describing key aspects of industry development in a variety of settings, contributors also consider diverse ways in which histories of travel relate to larger political and cultural questions.

Andrew Grant Wood is the Stanley Rutland Professor of American History at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870-1927 and Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography. Contributors include: Fernando Armas Asín, Rodrigo Booth, Félix Manuel Burgos, Meri L. Clark, Rocio Gomez, Kenneth R. Kincaid, Elizabeth Manley, Mark Rice, Anadelia Romo, Blake C. Scott, Evan Ward, Andrew Grant Wood