The Role of NGOs in Touristic Securitization

The Case of La Antigua Guatemala

verfasst von

Sarah Jane Becklake

Abstract

This article focuses on the role of nonprofit, nongovernmental, international development organizations (NGOs) in touristic securitization, the practice of securing tourists to sustain tourism. Especially in the Global South, NGOs are incorporating tourism into their operations/ funding strategies and, thus, becoming touristic securitization stakeholders and actors. Through focusing on Western NGOs in and around Guatemala’s main tourism destination, La Antigua
Guatemala, this article investigates how NGOs rely on, contribute to, and/or engage in touristic securitization. While the article demonstrates that NGOs help make Western tourists feel safe enough to travel to Guatemala, as well as help to keep them from harm while visiting, it also shows how touristic securitization is informed by and informing of intersecting inequalities and (re)producing human insecurities, especially for poor, often indigenous, Guatemalans, the very people NGOs aim to help. The article argues that touristic securitization is securing different worlds of (in)security.

Externe Organisation(en)

Lancaster University

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Space and Culture

Band

23

Seiten

34–47

Anzahl der Seiten

14

ISSN

1206-3312

Publikationsdatum

01.02.2020

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Kultur und Raum, Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer (sonstige), Tourismus-, Freizeit- und Gastronomiemanagement, Urban studies

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331219871888 (Zugang: Geschlossen)