Download or read book The Tourism Encounter written by Florence Babb and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the recent growth of tourism in transitional societies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Research in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru reveals that tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and may even benefit from the formerly off-limits status of nations that have undergone periods of conflict or rebellion.