Negative Effects of Tourism in the Caribbean
Question 1: Kincaid, Strachan and others have argued that tourism hardly benefits the people of the Caribbean. At best it creates low levels of employment, workers’ alienation, and teaches little more than servility which is compensated with menial wages. At worst, it fosters the “ethics of materialism” in a population that can hardly afford the global North lifestyles paraded in their faces daily by tourists […]