Tourism and inequality : problems and prospects /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Tourism.; Tourism > Sociological aspects.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Marketing and Distribution.; Income and Poverty.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Disparity.; Ethics.; Gender relations.; Human rights.; People with disabilities.; Race relations.; Social classes.; Social inequalities.; Sociology of tourism.; Electronic books.
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This book seeks to make a contribution to the tourism and inequality debate, not only through its investigation of how and why tourism contributes to and reflects social inequality, but also through its exploration of the ways in which tourism can be a means to reduce social inequality or alleviate...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Tourism and Inequality / Stroma Cole and Nigel Morgan
• Tourism, Disability and Mobility / Jennie Small and Simon Darcy
• Tourism and Visual Impairment / Victoria Richards, Nigel Morgan, Annette Pritchard and Diane Sedgley
• Equal Access for All? Regulative Mechanisms, Inequality and Tourism Mobility / C. Michael Hall
• Sex Tourism and Inequalities / Jacqueline Sánchez Taylor
• Access and Marginalization in a Beach Enclave Resort / Sheena Carlisle
• Fair Trade in Tourism : a Marketing Tool for Social Transformation? / Angela Kalisch
• Tourism and Human Rights / Stroma Cole and Jenny Eriksson
• Social Tourism for Low-income Groups : Benefits in a UK and Irish Context / Lynn Minnaert, Jane Stacey, Bernadette Quinn and Kevin Griffin
• Tourism and Welfare : Ethics, Responsibility and Well-being / Derek Hall and Frances Brown
• Pro-poor Tourism : Can Tourism Contribute to Poverty Reduction in Less Economically Developed Countries? / Dorothea Meyer
• Urban Beaches as Social Tourism Installations : Case Studies of Paris Plage and Bristol Urban Beach / Tim Gale
• Justifying Tourism : Justice through Tourism / Freya Higgins-Desbiolles / Conclusion : Tourism, Inequalities and Prospects / Nigel Morgan and Stroma Cole.