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

An evaluation of the promotion of tourism for economic development in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) is presented. This book provides a review of many of the key issues involved, including the socio, cultural and environmental impacts of this movement of tourists from Developed to Less Developed Co...

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Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
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245 0 0 |a Tourism and the less developed world :  |b issues and case studies /  |c edited by David Harrison, Professor of Tourism, Culture and Development, University of North London, UK. 
264 # 1 |a Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :  |b CABI,  |c 2001. 
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505 0 # |a Less Developed Countries and Tourism : the Overall Pattern / David Harrison -- Tourism and Less Developed Countries : Key Issues / David Harrison -- Tourism Challenges in Developing Nations : Continuity and Change at the Millennium / Linda K. Richter -- Human Resources in Tourism Development : African Perspectives / Peter U.C. Dieke -- Tourism in the Southern Common Market : MERCOSUL / Guilherme Santana -- Tourism and Development in Communist and Post-communist Societies / Derek R. Hall -- Tourism Development in China : the Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalization / Alan A. Lew -- Japan and Tourism in the Pacific Rim : Locating a Sphere of Influence in the Global Economy / C. Michael Hall -- Indian Tourism : Policy, Performance and Pitfalls / Shalini Singh -- The Journey : an Overview of Tourism and Travel in the Arab/Islamic Context / Heba Aziz -- Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean / David B. Weaver -- Resort-based Tourism on the Pleasure Periphery / Brian King -- Child Sex Tourism in Thailand / Heather Montgomery -- Community-based Ecotourism, Social Exclusion and the Changing Political Economy of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Frank Brennan and Garth Allen -- Wallace's Line : Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism in Indonesia / Sheryl Ross and Geoffrey Wall -- Ecotourism Development in the Rural Highlands of Fiji / Kelly S. Bricker -- Afterword / David Harrison. 
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520 3 # |a An evaluation of the promotion of tourism for economic development in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) is presented. This book provides a review of many of the key issues involved, including the socio, cultural and environmental impacts of this movement of tourists from Developed to Less Developed Countries. These are interpreted from a perspective mainly derived from the sociology and anthropology of development. Case study chapters are presented from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania. The book provides essential reading for advanced students and researchers in tourism and development studies. 
530 # # |a Also available in print format. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed August 23, 2013). 
650 # 0 |a Tourism  |z Developing countries. 
650 # 4 |a Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Policy and Planning. 
650 # 4 |a Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Tourism and Travel. 
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650 # 7 |a Conservation.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Cultural change.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Development studies.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Ecotourism.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Environmental impact.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Social anthropology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Social impact.  |2 cabt 
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650 # 7 |a Tourism.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Tourism development.  |2 cabt 
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