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

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Tourism > Developing countries.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Alternative tourism.; Conservation.; Cultural change.; Development studies.; Ecotourism.; Environmental impact.; Social anthropology.; Social impact.; Sociology.; Tourism.; Tourism development.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.