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Tourism, Agriculture, And Identity: Comparing Grenada And Dominica, Velvet Nelson
Tourism, Agriculture, And Identity: Comparing Grenada And Dominica, Velvet Nelson
Journal of Tourism Insights
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between agriculture and tourism in the promotion of economic identity at the turn of the twentieth century and again at the turn of the twenty-first in the case of two Eastern Caribbean islands: Grenada and Dominica. From the beginnings of export-oriented agriculture in the Caribbean until recent decades, agriculture was the dominant economic activity in the islands. Consequently, the economic identity of these islands has also been tied to their agricultural produce. Initially the emphasis placed on sugarcane cultivation in the region gave rise to the idea of the “sugar …