Tourism and the Less Developed World ：Issues and Case Studies

Publication subTitle ：Issues and Case Studies

Author： Harrison   D.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2001

E-ISBN: 9780851997049

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780851998305

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851994338

Subject： F591 a globe

Keyword： Tourism Industry Sport and Leisure Industries

Language： ENG

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Description

Many less developed countries are expanding their tourism industries and these are seen to be crucial to their economic development. Yet such activities can also create social, cultural and environmental problems.This book provides a review of many of the key issues involved in tourism in developing countries and presents a range of case studies. These are interpreted from a perspective of the sociology and anthropology of development. Case study chapters are presented from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania. The book provides essential reading for advanced students and researchers in tourism and development studies.

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Preface

1 Less Developed Countries and Tourism: the Overall Pattern

2 Tourism and Less Developed Countries: Key Issues

3 Tourism Challenges in Developing Nations: Continuity and Change at the Millennium

4 Human Resources in Tourism Development: African Perspectives

5 Tourism in the Southern Common Market: MERCOSUL

6 Tourism and Development in Communist and Post-communist Societies

7 Tourism Development in China: the Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalization

8 Japan and Tourism in the Pacific Rim: Locating a Sphere of Influence in the Global Economy

9 Indian Tourism: Policy, Performance and Pitfalls

10 The Journey: an Overview of Tourism and Travel in the Arab/Islamic Context

11 Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean

12 Resort-based Tourism on the Pleasure Periphery

13 Child Sex Tourism in Thailand

14 Community-based Ecotourism, Social Exclusion and the Changing Political Economy of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

15 Wallace’s Line: Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism in Indonesia

16 Ecotourism Development in the Rural Highlands of Fiji

17 Afterword

Index

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