Festivals & Heritage
The Caribbean festival in The Bahamas held at Christmas.
What is Junkanoo?
The blending of European, African, and Asian cultures in the Caribbean.
What is creolization?
One socio-cultural benefit of tourism.
Education, peace, cultural exchange…
Local residents in tourism are called this.
Who is the host community?
Two popular Caribbean musical forms exported worldwide.
Reggae, Calypso, Salsa, Merengue…
This festival was revived by Barbados tourism officials in 1964.
What is Crop Over?
When a weaker culture adopts traits of a stronger one.
What is assimilation?
One socio-cultural cost of tourism.
Crime, drug use, commercialization of culture…
Areas where tourists are isolated from locals.
What are enclaves/all-inclusive resorts?
A fragile folk musical form mentioned in the notes.
Carriacou big drum / Barbados tuk band.
Name one heritage site used for tourism in Jamaica.
What is Seville Great House?
The term for borrowing between cultures from contact.
What is acculturation?
When culture is performed mainly for tourists.
What is staged authenticity?
Why encounters are often unequal.
Tourists tend to be wealthier than locals.
One reason local craft industries decline.
Lack of training, import competition…
This Trinidad event happens before Ash Wednesday.
What is Carnival?
The survival of African traditions in Caribbean culture is seen in this art form.
What is music/dance/religion?
Why tourism may increase crime in the Caribbean.
Tourists attract criminals; trafficking networks use tourism infrastructure.
A reason tourists may not adapt to local culture.
Short stays, isolation, language differences.
The regional festival promoting arts since 1971.
CARIFESTA.
A reason why some festivals are “recreated” for tourists.
What is to increase tourist arrivals/spending?
Why is strong cultural identity important?
It prevents over-dependence on tourism.
Term for locals copying tourist behaviours.
What is the demonstration effect?
What “tourist culture” refers to.
Shared behaviours of tourists regardless of nationality.
How tourism supports Caribbean artists..
Hotels hire performers; tourists buy art/crafts