Tourism reassessed : blight or blessing?.
By: Brown, Frances
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998Description: 141p. ; 24cm.ISBN: 075063989X (m); 9780750639897.Subject(s): International relations | Tourist trade | Tourism | Travel and TourismDDC classification: 338.4791 BRO Summary: Tourism Re-assessed provides a balanced assessment of the effects of tourism on 20th century life and evaluates its significance in international relations.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Presenting the major issues faced and generated by tourism, this text examines the place of tourism in the global political economy. It analyzes how far tourism is shaped by the political-economic system and its own role in shaping that system.
Bibliography.
Includes index.
Tourism Re-assessed provides a balanced assessment of the effects of tourism on 20th century life and evaluates its significance in international relations.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. vii)
- List of abbreviations and acronyms (p. ix)
- Part 1 The Context (p. 1)
- 1 Introduction (p. 3)
- 2 Tourism's place within international relations (p. 11)
- 3 Tourism and external events - a two-way influence (p. 21)
- 4 Tourism institutions - where do they fit in (p. 32)
- Part 2 The Specifics (p. 43)
- 5 Environmental impacts (p. 45)
- 6 Economic and employment impacts (p. 55)
- 7 Social and cultural impacts - on hosts and guests (p. 66)
- 8 Heritage, the past and authenticity (p. 79)
- Part 3 What Is To Be Done? (p. 89)
- 9 Evaluating the evaluators (p. 91)
- 10 So why do people travel? (p. 102)
- 11 Conclusion (p. 111)
- 12 The future (p. 118)
- Bibliography (p. 127)
- Index (p. 137)