Controversies in Tourism

Author： Moufakkir   O.; Burns   P.M.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9781845939533

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781845938130

Subject： F590 Tourism Economic Theory and Methods

Keyword： Business and Economics Industries Hospitality Travel and Tourism Tourism Industry

Language： ENG

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Description

Tourism impacts on locations in many ways - socially, environmentally, culturally, and economically. This book examines some well established controversies in tourism and some newly emerging controversial aspects associated with tourism as an activity and a business. Controversies involving clashes between visitors and host communities, the rights and wrongs of eco-tourism, the impacts of mega-events, the legitimacy of dark tourism, and the costs and benefits of medical and wildlife tourism are assessed. This book is an interesting and thought provoking work ideal for tourism students, researchers and academics.

Chapter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Of Ethics, Leisure and Tourism: The ‘Serious Fun of Doing Tourism’

2 A Common Tourism Policy for the European Union: A Historical Perspective

3 Authenticity and Commodification: The Selling of Mayan Culture in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera

4 Authenticity Versus Development: Tourism to the Hill Tribes of Thailand

5 Controversies in Medical Tourism

6 Ethical Issues in Trophy Hunting

7 Ecotourism: A Maturing Discourse with Some Established Controversy

8 Ethnic Panopticon: A Controversy in Aboriginal Tourism

9 Gaming in the USA: Historical Development, Controversies and Current Status

10 Golf Tourism: The Case of Cyprus

11 Residential Tourism or Lifestyle Migration: Social Problems Linked to the Non-Definition of the Situation

12 Surrealist Pilgrims, Melting Clocks in Marble Halls: Dark Tourism for a Postmodern World

13 The Golden Jubilee of Independence and Panafest in Ghana: ‘All that Glitters is not Gold’

14 The Ideological Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in the Promotion of International Tourism

15 The Paradoxes of Tourism Encounters in the Mass Tourism Spaces of the Gambia

16 Tourism or Conservation? A Controversy in Chitwan National Park, Nepal

17 Volunteer Tourism: Commodified Trend or New Phenomenon?

Conclusion

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