Periódico: Revista Internacional de Turismo y Empresa
Fonte: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM, BUSINESS AND TERRITORY; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2020); 103-127
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Resumo: This article arises from the need to reveal the influence of tourism development on the dimensions of sustainable development in the community of Caibarién, Cuba. The information was obtained through documentary review and semi-structured interviews. The theoretical and methodological foundations that support the treatment of the subject are structured from the scientific production related to the topics of tourism development and sustainable tourism. The main results showed that the development strategy of Gaviota SA in the Villa Clara Keys, indirectly influences the sustainability of the Caibarién community, which coincides with what is stated in the academic literature and is also relevant for the case of Cuba, whose socio-economic and political organization distances itself from the global neoliberal paradigm. Although there are elements that show a trend towards sustainable development, negative aspects were still identified as a consequence of the presence of tourism development that will have to be considered both in future research and in its practical implications in the tourism industry of the Island and of other latitudes.
Keywords: Tourism development; Sustainability; Social, economic and environmental dimensions; Cuba.
