Wednesday, June 21, 2006

"We have people who live in the poorest circumstances working in luxury hotels." A Librarian at the Kitchen Table. No. 371.

"Cancun is suffering very serious urban problems, along with a kind of polarization and social asymmetry," said Eduardo Torres Maldonado, author of a book about the development of Quintana Roo. "We have people who live in the poorest circumstances working in luxury hotels."

From Tropical Hell to Tourist Paradise: State Intervention and Tourist Entrepreneurship in the Mexican Carribbean (PhD dissertation, 1997. University of Texas-Austin).

Also:
Diacrónica del Caribe mexicano : una historia de Quintana Roo y Cancún / Eduardo Torres Maldonado, coordinador y editor ; Lorena Carega Viliesid ... [et al.] ; prólogo de Peter M. Ward ; presentación de Javier Rodríguez Piña
Imprint México : Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Unidad Azcapotzalco, 2000.


See: Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Recommendations for Action

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