TY - JOUR

T1 - The Role of NGOs in Touristic Securitization

T2 - The Case of La Antigua Guatemala

AU - Becklake, Sarah Jane

N1 - Funding information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article stems from PhD research funded by the University of Lancaster’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and a 1-year Economic and Social Research Council Global Challenges Research Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship. I would like to acknowledge the invaluable mentorship, supervision, and support of Profs. Sylvia Walby, John Urry, and Anne-Marie Fortier. I would also like to thank Profs. Eveline Dürr, Rivke Jaffe, and Gareth Jones, as well as Drs. Alana Osbourne, Barbara Vodopivec, Alessandro Angelini, David Frohnapfel, and Markus Hochmüller for reading and commenting on earlier drafts. This article has benefited greatly from two anonymous reviewers’ feedback. All errors are, of course, mine. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article stems from PhD research funded by the University of Lancaster’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and a 1-year Economic and Social Research Council Global Challenges Research Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

PY - 2020/2/1

Y1 - 2020/2/1

N2 - 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 AntiguaGuatemala, 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.

AB - 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 AntiguaGuatemala, 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.

KW - Development

KW - Security

KW - Tourism

KW - NGOs

KW - Guatemala

KW - inequality

KW - development

KW - security

KW - nongovernmental organizations

KW - tourism

KW - securitization

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073800263&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1206331219871888

DO - 10.1177/1206331219871888

M3 - Article

VL - 23

SP - 34

EP - 47

JO - Space and Culture

JF - Space and Culture

SN - 1206-3312

IS - 1

ER -