Tourism and the less developed world : issues and case studies /

Tourism and the less developed world : issues and case studies / edited by David Harrison - Oxon : Cambridge : CABI Publishing, 2001. - xi, 272 p. : maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : PART ONE: GENERAL THEMES --
1. Less Developed Countries and Tourism: the Overall Pattern / David Harrison --
2. Tourism and Less Developed Countries : Key Issues / David Harrison --
3. Tourism Challenges in Developing Nations : Continuity and Change at the Millennium / Linda K. Richter --
PART TWO: TOURISM IN SPECIFIC REGIONS --
4. Human Resources in Tourism Development: African Perspectives/ Peter U. C. Dieke --
5. Tourism in the Southern Common Market : MERCOSUL/ Guilherme Santana --
6. Tourism and Development in Communist and Post-communist Societies/ Derek R. Hall --
7. Tourism Development in China: the Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalization/ Alan A. Lew --
8. Japan and Tourism in the Pacific Rim: Locating a Sphere of Influence in the Global Economy/ C. Michael Hall --
9. Indian Tourism: Policy/ Performance and Pitfalls/ Shalini Singh --
10. The Journey: an Overview of Tourism and Travel in the Arab/Islamic Context/ Heba Aziz
PART THREE: SELECTED CASE STUDIES --
11. Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean/ David B. Weaver --
12. Resort-based Tourism on the Pleasure Periphery/ Brian King --
13. Child Sex Tourism in Thailand/ Heather Montgomery --
14. Community-based Ecotourism/ Social Exclusion and the Changing Political Economy of KwaZulu-Natal/ South Africa / Frank Brennan and Garth Allen --
15. Wallace's Line: Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism in Indonesia / Sheryl Ross and Geoffrey Wall --
16. Ecotourism Development in the Rural Highlands of Fiji / Kelly S. Bricker --
PART FOUR: IN CONCLUSION --
17. Afterword/ David Harrison.


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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