The Good Holiday

Download or read book The Good Holiday written by João Afonso Baptista and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, which is host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, The Good Holiday explores the confluence of two powerful industries: tourism and development, and explains when, how and why tourism becomes development and development, tourism. The volume further explores the social and material consequences of this merging, presenting the confluence of tourism and development as a major vehicle for the exercise of ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.