Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights with the Environment
Ecotourism is often promoted as a way to visit a unique area of spectacular beauty. While tourists travel to these destinations to view environmental wonders, they seldom consider the effects of their visit on the indigenous people or on the location itself. Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights with the Environment, an edited collection by Penny Seymoure and Jeffrey L. Roberg, examines the impact of tourism on indigenous and local populations, and the environment they live in, specifically in several locations in the northeast of Argentina.
Several of the chapters examine the lives and problems of the Mbya Guaraní people, an indigenous culture that has been attempting to survive in the rainforest of Misiones Province. In recent years, the loss of traditional lands, some of which was taken for tourist hotels, has led the Mbya to engage in tourism, with both positive and negative changes to their culture. Most of the tourists who interact with the Mbya come to the area to see the beautiful Iguazu National Park and Waterfalls, and stay in the nearby city of Puerto Iguazu. The waterfalls now draw over one million visitors a year.
The authors of this volume further explore how, while Puerto Iguazu has been engaged in mass tourism for many years, the nearby small town of Colonia Carlos Pelligrini has struggled to keep its younger tourism industry modest due, in part, to its location near pristine wetlands. This town faces a number of challenges that must be addressed soon to protect both the surrounding wetlands and the town itself.
Tourism in Northeastern Argentina explores all of these issues, and more, in the context of human and indigenous rights and the protection of the environment.
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Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights with the Environment
Ecotourism is often promoted as a way to visit a unique area of spectacular beauty. While tourists travel to these destinations to view environmental wonders, they seldom consider the effects of their visit on the indigenous people or on the location itself. Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights with the Environment, an edited collection by Penny Seymoure and Jeffrey L. Roberg, examines the impact of tourism on indigenous and local populations, and the environment they live in, specifically in several locations in the northeast of Argentina.
Several of the chapters examine the lives and problems of the Mbya Guaraní people, an indigenous culture that has been attempting to survive in the rainforest of Misiones Province. In recent years, the loss of traditional lands, some of which was taken for tourist hotels, has led the Mbya to engage in tourism, with both positive and negative changes to their culture. Most of the tourists who interact with the Mbya come to the area to see the beautiful Iguazu National Park and Waterfalls, and stay in the nearby city of Puerto Iguazu. The waterfalls now draw over one million visitors a year.
The authors of this volume further explore how, while Puerto Iguazu has been engaged in mass tourism for many years, the nearby small town of Colonia Carlos Pelligrini has struggled to keep its younger tourism industry modest due, in part, to its location near pristine wetlands. This town faces a number of challenges that must be addressed soon to protect both the surrounding wetlands and the town itself.
Tourism in Northeastern Argentina explores all of these issues, and more, in the context of human and indigenous rights and the protection of the environment.
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Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights with the Environment

Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights with the Environment

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Ecotourism is often promoted as a way to visit a unique area of spectacular beauty. While tourists travel to these destinations to view environmental wonders, they seldom consider the effects of their visit on the indigenous people or on the location itself. Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights with the Environment, an edited collection by Penny Seymoure and Jeffrey L. Roberg, examines the impact of tourism on indigenous and local populations, and the environment they live in, specifically in several locations in the northeast of Argentina.
Several of the chapters examine the lives and problems of the Mbya Guaraní people, an indigenous culture that has been attempting to survive in the rainforest of Misiones Province. In recent years, the loss of traditional lands, some of which was taken for tourist hotels, has led the Mbya to engage in tourism, with both positive and negative changes to their culture. Most of the tourists who interact with the Mbya come to the area to see the beautiful Iguazu National Park and Waterfalls, and stay in the nearby city of Puerto Iguazu. The waterfalls now draw over one million visitors a year.
The authors of this volume further explore how, while Puerto Iguazu has been engaged in mass tourism for many years, the nearby small town of Colonia Carlos Pelligrini has struggled to keep its younger tourism industry modest due, in part, to its location near pristine wetlands. This town faces a number of challenges that must be addressed soon to protect both the surrounding wetlands and the town itself.
Tourism in Northeastern Argentina explores all of these issues, and more, in the context of human and indigenous rights and the protection of the environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739137802
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 11/25/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 232
File size: 973 KB

About the Author

Penny Seymoure is associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Carthage College in Wisconsin.
Jeffrey L. Roberg is professor of political science at Carthage College in Wisconsin.
List of Contributors
Marta Crivos; Maria Rosa Martinez; Cristina Morales; Penny Seymoure; Carolina Remorini; Jeffrey L. Roberg; Cecilia Rolon; Laura Teves

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One - An Overview to the Book: Human and Environmental Rights

by Jeffrey L. Roberg and Penny Seymoure

Chapter Two - The Fight for Mbya Lands: Indigenous Rights and Collective Rights

by Penny Seymoure

Chapter Three - Changing Life Strategies: Mbya People and Their Relationship with Tourism

by Marta Crivos, Maria Rosa Martinez, Carolina Remorini, and Laura Teves

Chapter Four - Tourism Programs in Mbya Communities Near the Iguazu National Park

by Penny Seymoure

Chapter Five - Special Challenges Facing the Mbya: Land Shortages, Food Insecurity, Children's Health, and Education

by Penny Seymoure

Chapter Six - The Effects of Tourism on Puerto Iguazu

by Jeffrey L Roberg

Chapter Seven - The Effects of Tourism on Colonia Carlos Pellegrini

by Jeffrey L. Roberg

Chapter Eight - Tourism Planning and Protected Areas in Argentina

by Cecilia Rolon and Cristina Morales

Chapter Nine - Conclusion

by Penny Seymoure and Jeffrey L. Roberg

Bibliography

About the Authors

Index

What People are Saying About This

Debra L. DeLaet

Tourism in Northeastern Argentina makes an important contribution to scholarship on the effects of tourism in a world increasingly shaped by the forces of globalization. The authors effectively balance the provision of in-depth empirical information about the benefits and costs of tourism with a sophisticated consideration of the human rights issues at stake.

John Cusick

This book details the challenges and opportunities associated with ecotourism globally, and as with other destinations promoting biological and cultural resources, the ‘sustainability’ rhetoric often doesn’t reflect practice. Both are compromised to the detriment of residents and their sense of place.

Terence Roehrig

The case studies are a particularly important addition to the literature as they highlight how tourism development has simultaneously relieved existing poverty in northeastern Argentina while generating new challenges. The book is a careful and insightful analysis of these complex issues with important implications for other regions facing similar challenges.

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