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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):539-541; doi:10.1093/es/khn072
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Berger, Dina. The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xvii + 164 pp. ISBN 10 1-4039-6635-4, ISBN 13 978-1403966353, $69.95 (cloth)
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Dina Berger's The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night traces the historical foundations of the tourism industry in México from 1928 to the early post–WW II period. The author argues that during this period tourism became a medium for the modernization and economic development of México. According to Berger, the "creation of a tourist industry emerged as the cornerstone to state-led modernization programs in the late 1920s at the height of revolutionary
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