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[email protected] Universidad de La Laguna España Best, Curwen Tourism, Digital Presence and Becoming Virtual: The Caribbean PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, vol. 5, núm. 3, septiembre, 2007, pp. 391-398 Universidad de La Laguna El Sauzal (Tenerife), España Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=88150310 Cómo citar el artículo Número completo Sistema de Información Científica Más información del artículo Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Página de la revista en redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto Vol. 5 Nº 3 págs. 391-398. 2007 www.pasosonline.org Opiniones y ensayos Tourism, Digital Presence and Becoming Virtual: The Caribbean Curwen Best (PhD)1
[email protected] In the movie Shall We Dance John responsible for the current status quo and Clark, the character played by Richard this system will continue to impact nega- Gere, expresses the fantasy of going to the tively on the modernization project. These islands2 On the website of the extra- theories and their approaches represent the regionally owned tourist liner Royal Carib- dominant sites of discourse throughout the bean International the white corporate 1960, 1970’s and 1980’s. Arguably, more leadership of the company declares: “No recent approaches to the tourism phenome- one knows the Caribbean better than we non tend to deemphasize economic consid- do”3 Potential tourists are offered the erations while privileging the role of cul- dream of a lifetime in the Caribbean.