Background Sex tourism is defined as travel planned specifically for the purpose of sex,
generally to a country where prostitution is legal. While much of the literature on sex tourism …

The US and Cuba have alleviated the half a century of Cold War-era isolation and have tried
to resume diplomatic relations. Due to the continuous development in policies between US …

In modern leisure spaces, nothing typifies dark leisure as a normative rule better than the
supposed alternative, counter-cultural space of pop-rock-metal music. In the first half of this …

Building on current anthropological literature on intimacy, this article focuses on the way
intimate relations mediate different narratives and experiences of belonging. It explores …

Building on tourism scholarship on existential authenticity, touristic intimacy, and the
limitations of the tourist role, the article provides an empirically grounded analysis of how the …

Tourism doctoral dissertations have grown exponentially in recent years. Despite this, there
have been limited studies which examine the contribution of specific disciplines to tourism …

Experiences of sexual and love relationships with tourist women lead Cuban men to
articulate and act upon different–often contradictory–models of masculinity. Gossiping …

Within the last ten years, Cuba has undergone many social, economic, and political
changes. Since President Raul Castro took the reins from his brother, Fidel Castro, he has …

As the government of Cuba plans to rapidly expand the tourism sector and heavily invest in
infrastructure to accommodate the projected 10 million tourist arrivals in the next decade …

'Value'is a term frequently used in tourism studies as a measure of monetary worth, a
concept governing commodity exchange, and a gauge for tourist satisfaction. However …