Tourism development is underpinned by a euro-centric philosophy manifested in western socio-economic values and systems that impose control over countries, and people (Escobar, 1998). As critical tourism scholars widely recognize, development discourses can work as a powerful, capitalist tool in the acquisition and commodification of land and cultures necessary for the growth and sustainability of the touri...

Bryan Grimwood

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Helle Haven Petersen

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Tourism literature has highlighted the growth in tourism education as an important area in institutions of higher learning since the 1980s (Fidgeon, 2010; Liburd, Hjalager, & Christensen, 2011; Sheldon, Fesenmaier, & Tribe, 2011). This phenomenon is attributed to the growth in the global tourism industry, and the consequent need to develop a pedagogical understanding of tourism and hospitality studi...

Victor Agbo

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During the 1930s and 1950s, the reality of French Canadians was shaken up by numerous events that provoked a confrontation between the ideologies in place. These important meetings also participate in the change in food practices and redefine its constitution. This research proposes to study the evolution of the phenomenon between the years 1930 to 1950 in the digitized periodicals of the Library and National Archives of Quebec. Advancing into unknown territory, the results will be describ...

Ariane Simard-Picard

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