Dependency and development patterns in tourism: A case study in the Canary Islands
Fecha
2006Resumen
This paper analyses the relationship between tourism and development through a case study. Dependency theories suggest that tourism is somehow a new form of colonialism and causes cash outflow from destination societies, that it creates only poor jobs and that in any case development and jobs scarcely benefit local societies. The case study shows that it does not necessarily have to be like this. It is not tourism that always promotes dependency, but rather that in a dependency situation tourism will probably be organized in a dependent way. The development patterns approach, focusing on what hinders or promotes development, seems to be a more useful way to analyse tourism than traditional value-laden approaches.