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This programme is a cut-down version of a documentary made for the BBC World About Us series. It looks at tourism in the West Indies, in particular St. Lucia, Jamaica and Antigua, and raises the qu...estion of who benefits most from this kind of private investment.
This programme is a cut-down version of a documentary made for the BBC World About Us series. It looks at tourism in the West Indies, in particular St. Lucia, Jamaica and Antigua, and raises the qu...estion of who benefits most from this kind of private investment.
| Module code and title: | D302, Patterns of inequality |
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| Item code: | D302; 12 |
| First transmission date: | 17-08-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:11 |
| Note: | Cut down version of BBC 'World about us" series |
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| Producer: | Graham Turner |
| Contributors: | Tim Hector; Grahame Thompson; John Young; Sylvia: Odium, George: Joseph, Ruth Wynter |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Antigua; Inequality; St Lucia; Tourism, Jamaica |
| Footage description: | Shots of tourists and scenery in Caribbean islands. Thompson introduces the programme which will look at tourism as an industry and how it affects the Third World. Initially the programme will look at Court Line's investment in St. Lucia. Wynter comments on the paradise fantasy world of the tourist in Jamaica. This is contrasted with the poor conditions of the inhabitants of Montego Bay. Young, from Court Line, explains in a BBC documentary of 1973 their attitude to tourist development. Court Line's Halcyon Days hotel development is described and commented on by Odlum, owner of an opposition newspaper in St. Lucia. Young continues to explain Court Line's style of tourism. Shots of Halcyon Days hotel. Odlum criticises their methods. Comments from hotel guests and the manager. Odlum explains the kind of tourism he would welcome, while Young dismisses the idea of local involvement. Using Antigua as an example, the programme looks at how tourism has replaced the island's only other industry - sugar. Hector explains the collapse of the sugar industry. Hector examines the possibilities that tourism offered, how the chances were wasted, and how the tourist industry has affected the attitudes and lifestyles of the local inhabitants. Various shots of Antigua, tourists, steel bands etc. Joseph describes the lack of work. Hector looks at how tourism has affected local industry, such as fishing. He explains how he thinks tourism ought to work more beneficially for the local inhabitants. Credits over sailing sequence. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72092 |
| Production number: | 00525_2287 |
| Videofinder number: | 194 |
| Available to public: | no |
