Sugar Heritage and Tourism in Transition

This fascinating book delves into another element of heritage that has not been adequately examined by tourism scholars. Its coverage of sugar and all that sugar production entails as forms of heritage is extraordinary and commendable. The work is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning scholarly theme of 'heritage of the ordinary', and its chapters are loaded with decisive discourses on globalization, slavery, colonialism, social inequities, collective amnesia, place identity, and contested heritages, to name but a few conceptual pearls. Its worldwide perspectives and strong conceptual grounding make Sugar Heritage and Tourism in Transition essential reading for heritage and tourism scholars everywhere.

* Professor Dallen J. Timothy, Arizona State University, USA *

In thematically-linked and interdisciplinary essays, Sugar Heritage and Tourism in Transition offers a comprehensive, thoughtful and sensitive overview of the challenges confronting former sugarcane producers as they convert to tourism-based economies and strive to attract tourists by focusing on their nations' sugar heritage, including slavery and indentureship, without compromising its authenticity.

* Elizabeth Abbott, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada *

The book’s eleven substantial chapters are uniformly well-written and well-researched, with substantial bibliographies and numerous useful tables and figures.

-- Paul F. Wilkinson, York University, Canada in Island Studies Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013, pp. 179-206

[This book] will be welcomed by readers of all profiles whose eyes it will open to one of the latest tourism trends, and who will enjoy its clear and direct style of writing and many clearly illustrated points.

-- Nikola D. Vuksanovic´, University of Novi Sad, Serbia in Annals of Tourism Research 42 (2013) 443–453

This book makes informative reading for all those interested in culinary, industrial, and heritage tourism and how all things are connected. It is this ‘connective’ aspect that sets it apart from many of the edited books that are marketed each year. It provides the reader with opportunities to see tourism from new and novel perspectives. Well worth a read.

-- Keith Dewar, University of New Brunswick – Saint John, Canada in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change,