Holiday in Mexico : critical reflections on tourism and tourist encounters

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Holiday in Mexico : critical reflections on tourism and tourist encounters

edited by Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood

(American encounters/global interactions)

Duke University Press, 2010

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

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With its archaeological sites, colonial architecture, pristine beaches, and alluring cities, Mexico has long been an attractive destination for travelers. The tourist industry ranks third in contributions to Mexico's gross domestic product and provides more than 5 percent of total employment nationwide. Holiday in Mexico takes a broad historical and geographical look at Mexico, covering tourist destinations from Tijuana to Acapulco and the development of tourism from the 1840s to the present day. Scholars in a variety of fields offer a complex and critical view of tourism in Mexico by examining its origins, promoters, and participants. Essays feature research on prototourist American soldiers of the mid-nineteenth century, archaeologists who excavated Teotihuacan, business owners who marketed Carnival in Veracruz during the 1920s, American tourists in Mexico City who promoted goodwill during the Second World War, American retirees who settled San Miguel de Allende, restaurateurs who created an "authentic" cuisine of Central Mexico, indigenous market vendors of Oaxaca who shaped the local tourist identity, Mayan service workers who migrated to work in Cancun hotels, and local officials who vied to develop the next "it" spot in Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas. Including insightful studies on food, labor, art, diplomacy, business, and politics, this collection illuminates the many processes and individuals that constitute the tourism industry. Holiday in Mexico shows tourism to be a complicated set of interactions and outcomes that reveal much about the nature of economic, social, cultural, and environmental change in Greater Mexico over the past two centuries. Contributors. Dina Berger, Andrea Boardman, Christina Bueno, M. Bianet Castellanos, Mary K. Coffey, Lisa Pinley Covert, Barbara Kastelein, Jeffrey Pilcher, Andrew Sackett, Alex Saragoza, Eric M. Schantz, Andrew Grant Wood

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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Tourism Studies and the Tourism Dilemma / Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood 1 The U.S.-Mexican War and the Beginnings of American Tourism in Mexico / Andrea Boardman 21 Teotihuacan: Showcase for the Centennial / Christina Bueno 54 On the Selling of Rey Momo: Early Tourism and the Marketing of Carnival in Veracruz / Andrew Grant Wood 77 Goodwill Ambassadors on Holiday: Tourism, Diplomacy, and Mexico-United States Relations / Dina Berger 107 Behind the Noir Border: Tourism, the Vice Racket, and Power Relations in Baja California's Border Zone, 1938-65 / Eric M. Schantz 130 Fun in Acapulco? The Politics of Development on the Mexican Riviera / Andrew Sackett 161 Colonial Outpost to Artists' Mecca: Conflict and Collaboration in the Development of San Miguel de Allende's Tourism Industry / Lisa Pinley Covert 183 Jose Cuervo and the Gentrified Worm: Food, Drink, and the Touristic Consumption of Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher 221 Cancun and the Campo: Indigenous Migration and Tourism Development in the Yucatan Peninsula / M. Bianet Castellanos 241 Marketing Mexico's Great Masters: Folk Art Tourism and the Neoliberal Politics of Exhibition / Mary K. Coffey 265 Golfing in the Desert: Los Cabos and Post-PRI Tourism in Mexico / Alex M. Saragoza 295 The Beach and Beyond: Observations from a Travel Writer on Dreams, Decadence, and Defense / Barbara Kastelein 320 Conclusion: Should We Stay or Should We Go? Reflections on Tourism Past and Present / Andrew Grant Wood and Dina Berger 371 Contributors 385 Index 387

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