To Hell With Paradise - A History Of The Jamaican Tourist Industry

"To Hell with Paradise" illustrates the problems of founding a tourist industry for a European or U.S. clientele in a society where the mass of the population is poor, black, and with a historical experience of slavery and colonialism. It combines political and cultural history to reveal how Jamaica transformed itself in the nineteenth century from a pestilence-ridden "white man's graveyard" to a sun-drenched tourist paradise.

About the author

Frank Fonda Taylor is Director of Black Studies at Boston College.

Summary

A group of Jamaican entrepreneurs saw its potential and began to cultivate a tourism psychology which has led, more than one hundred years later, to an economy dependent upon the tourist industry.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Fonda Taylor
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2003
• EAN: 9780822958239
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5823-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 233 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Series: Pitt Latin American Series; Pitt Latin American Series; Pitt Latin American
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches