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Controversies in tourism /

This book makes a contribution to the understanding of tourism controversies. Its purpose is to provide a platform for open debate and intellectual discourse with a variety of views on perceived controversies or manifest conflicts firstly within tourism (endogenous controversies), but also in the mu...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
Subjects:
Tourism.
Tourism > Social aspects.
Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
Tourism and Travel.
Ethics.
Sociology of tourism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Of Ethics, Leisure and Tourism: The 'Serious Fun of Doing Tourism' / O. Moufakkir
  • A Common Tourism Policy for the European Union: A Historical Perspective / S. Mehter Aykin
  • Authenticity and Commodification: The Selling of Mayan Culture in Mexico's Mayan Riviera / A.E. Papanicolaou
  • Authenticity Versus Development: Tourism to the Hill Tribes of Thailand / M. Novelli and A. Tisch-Rottensteiner
  • Controversies in Medical Tourism / D.G. Vequist IV, M. Guiry and B. Ipock
  • Ethical Issues in Trophy Hunting / J. Dobson
  • Ecotourism: A Maturing Discourse with Some Established Controversy / S.W. Boyd
  • Ethnic Panopticon: A Controversy in Aboriginal Tourism / P.F. Xie
  • Gaming in the USA: Historical Development, Controversies and Current Status / O. Moufakkir and D.F. Holecek
  • Golf Tourism: The Case of Cyprus / N. Boukas, G. Boustras and A. Sinka
  • Residential Tourism or Lifestyle Migration: Social Problems Linked to the Non-Definition of the Situation / R. Huete and A. Mantecon
  • Surrealist Pilgrims, Melting Clocks in Marble Halls: Dark Tourism for a Postmodern World / D. Craig and C. Thompson
  • The Golden Jubilee of Independence and Panafest in Ghana: 'All that Glitters is not Gold' / E. Addo
  • The Ideological Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in the Promotion of International Tourism / J. Ferraz
  • The Paradoxes of Tourism Encounters in the Mass Tourism Spaces of the Gambia / H. Pattison
  • Tourism or Conservation? A Controversy in Chitwan National Park, Nepal / K. Bhandari
  • Volunteer Tourism: Commodified Trend or New Phenomenon? / A.M. Benson and S. Wearing.

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