“…I argue that although tourism is usually considered a mechanism that deepens existing inequalities and creates new ones, in the context of late socialist Cuba it becomes a resource that the creation of new ideas for community development and brings attention to various social issues. My research builds up on a rich body of work that considers impact of touristic transformations in Cuba (de la Fuente, 2011;Cabezas, 2004;Hodge, 2014;Medina Lasansky, 2004) while linking it to the critical reflection on Cuban revolutionary ideology (Fernández, 2000;Gordy, 2015), and strategies of community engagement.…”