QUESTION 1: Tourism: Benefiting the Rich and Exploiting the Poor?

After reading the book Tourism, Power and Culture (except for the epilogue), are we left with the impression that tourism is one more way for the rich to take from the poor, or for the powerful to exploit the (significantly) less powerful? 

QUESTION 2: Cultural Tourism and Its Effects

“[W]hat are the systemic effects of a form of tourism that stresses difference?” (Carrier 2010, 111). In the introduction to part 2 of the book Tourism, Power and Culture, James G. Carrier states that this question is raised in the chapter by J. Teresa Holmes (Carrier 2010, 111).

As Calvo-González and Duccini show in chapter 7, tourism in Bahia promoted Bahian uniqueness, using the notion of “Blackness” (e.g., “Black culture” and “Black religion”) in order to attract tourists. Chapter 8 by Holmes discusses the promotion of ethnic diversity in tourism in Belize.

Question

To rephrase the above question somewhat: Considering chapters 7 and 8, what are the effects of a cultural tourism that stresses difference?

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