University of Warsaw he collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1991 determined a series of radical
changes in Cuba. he country no longer had the help of the global power supplying gas and …

“Chica, quieres comprar2?” The woman sitting next to me on the bench held out a three-
peso coin with Che Guevara's face on it as she asked that question. I smiled and shook my …

Following the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1989, a somber Fidel Castro informed the Cuban
people that their Revolution hovered on the brink of disaster. Faced with an unprecedented …

The demise of the former Soviet Union and its traditional markets has placed the Cuban
economy on a perilous search for hard currency. Tourism provides a ready source of foreign …

Utilising an interdisciplinary methodology that draws from cultural studies and critical tourism
studies, this article examines the production of difference at the intersection of hedonism and …

After years of neglect, the Cuban government timidly started to promote international tourism
in the mid-1970s. By the mid-1980s, in the midst of an external sector crisis, the Cuban …

Cuba's budding tourism industry, built during the 1990's, has replaced sugar as the island's
top foreign exchange earner. In contrast to sugar, tourism is based on sound competitive …

The economy of the Socialist Republic of Cuba has suffered greatly due to decreases in aid
from the Soviet Union. In an effort to improve economic conditions, Cuba is attempting to …

As the importance of sugar in Cuban-US relations diminished in the period after the
late s, tourism and investment in real estate came to the fore. Prohibition brought …

The Cuban tourism industry has been characterized by dynamic change since 1950
including phases of exploitative international tourism, socially driven domestic tourism, and …