Controversies in tourism / edited by Omar Moufakkir and Peter M. Burns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moufakkir, Omar.

Burns, Peter (Peter M.)

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 266 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 multidimensional contexts of environment and civil society (exogenous contexts). The focus of the book is on established controversies in tourism and new and emerging conflicts, dilemmas, paradoxes and disputes within tourism contexts. The book has 17 chapters, in addition to an introduction and a conclusion.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Controversies in tourism.

ISBN:

1-84593-813-5

OCLC:

773195152

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.