ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on a tourism-development nexus with a moral underpinning, which involves Western tourists actively using their holidays to learn about development issues. Rights-based tourism, as exemplified by the groups going to Cuba, requires new moral tourism in order to happen because of its implications for development. Global Exchange and Oxfam tours provide examples of the values and characteristics associated with the new tourism paradigm. NGO study tours suit tourists who seek to use their leisure time for personal growth and educational purposes. Tourists become agents of development by supporting the development projects of the NGO they travelled with and supporting Cuban solidarity Transformation is qualified by the tourists' affirmation of values espoused in the West such as social equity, collective community but no longer considered valid with the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
