Tourism development : growth, myths and inequalities /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Tourism.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Income and Poverty.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Economic development.; Socioeconomics.; Tourism development.; Electronic books.
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Making an empirical contribution to the understanding of tourism as a development mechanism in poor regions and countries, this book looks at the successes and paradoxes of tourism in this role and considers why tourism as a catalyst for economic development can be a controversial device. It offers...

Table of Contents:

• The ST-EP programme and least developed countries : is tourism the best alternative? / J. Nawijn, P. Peeters and J. van der Sterren
• The myth of agency through community participation in ecotourism / J. Butcher
• Is tourism fair? What the figures do not tell / H.F. Handszuh
• Western money for southern sympathy : how the Tuareg from Timia are instrumentalizing tourists to support their 'exotic' village / H.A. Friedl
• The influence of religion on global and local conflict in tourism : case studies in Muslim countries / A. Dluz̊ewska
• 'Riding' diversity : Cuban's/jineteros' uses of 'nationality-talks' in the realm of their informal encounters with tourists / V. Simoni
• Destination image revisited : the Dutch market perceptions of Morocco as a tourism destination / O. Moufakkir
• The demand of rural tourism in a natural park in southern Spain / G. Millán Vázquez de la Torre nd E. Agudo Gutiérrez
• Setting the scene : politics of transformation and narratives of preservation in Botiza (Romania) / C. Cipollari
• A contextual approach to the power relation between tourism and development / A.-M. Nogués Pedregal
• Global tourism and urban poor's right to the city : spatial contestation within Cairo's historical districts / W.S. Fahmi
• Kerala's strategy for tourism growth : a southern approach to development and poverty alleviation / K. Baker
• Tourism and Kudumbashree : a southern solution empowering women through tourism / K. Megarry
• Actors or victims? Actor-oriented perspectives on new forms of tourism / C. Flacke-Neudorfer
• Rural tourism in the context of ejidos and community development in Mexico / G. González Guerrero
• Living in hope : tourism and poverty alleviation in Flores? / S. Cole.