From Third World to First World: Tourism, Food Safety and the Making of Modern Singapore

Comics and humor as a mode of government communication on public hygiene posters in Singapore

“…Also, the woman's plea for immediate help in the comic could be interpreted as a projected cry for help to the Government, who reiterates the guidance below the comic with the same font styling as Figure 1 (all caps, bold, sans-serif): DO NOT SQUAT ON TOILET BOWLS. This guidance about toilet etiquette follows Western toilet practices, supporting Singapore's narrative as being modern and cosmopolitan (Ooi & Tarulevicz, 2019).…”

“…While a small dataset, these posters illustrate a consistent tone and message and are made available on the NEA website for additional distribution and awareness. 2 Further, the posters are of particular interest as Singapore has historically exerted efforts to regulate public hygiene as a sign of its modernization (Ooi & Tarulevicz, 2019;Tarulevicz, 2013). Singapore's national priority of cleanliness is still a concern despite its highly modernized state.…”

“…As Chakrabarty (1992) points out, discourse about public space and hygiene is connected to modernity because "it is the language not only of imperialist officials but of modernist nationalists as well" (p. 541). Singapore has a long history, since colonial time, in addressing public health and hygiene, particularly food safety issues (Ooi & Tarulevicz, 2019) to bring order and to clean the city and the citizenry. The regulation of public toilet use can also be understood as part of Singapore's broader attempts to control and discipline the population who are remarkably compliant.…”

Diagnóstico de la gestión de la inocuidad en servicios gastronómicos del destino turístico Varadero, Cuba

“…Se reconoce que su gestión está estrechamente ligada a la calidad de los alimentos, lo que ha sido planteado por Narváez (2012), también por Berovides-Castellón y Michelena-Fernández (2013) y en las investigaciones de De Almeida et al (2015), De Almeida et al (2017), Serrano Bazurdo (2017) y Jácome Lara (2017). Es por ello por lo que las instituciones le confieren gran importancia a la implementación de sistemas de calidad que garanticen la inocuidad del producto final (Ooi & Tarulevicz, 2019).…”