Tourism and the less developed world : issues and case studies / edited by David Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, David.

Series:

Tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Developing countries.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : CABI Pub., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This multi-author book covers tourism and development issues from less developed societies and countries from around the world, with chapters on specific regions and specific themes that emerge from the interaction of tourism with such societies.

Contents:

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Less Developed Countries and Tourism: the Overall Pattern; 2 Tourism and Less Developed Countries: Key Issues; 3 Tourism Challenges in Developing Nations: Continuity and Change at the Millennium; 4 Human Resources in Tourism Development: African Perspectives; 5 Tourism in the Southern Common Market: MERCOSUL; 6 Tourism and Development in Communist and Post-communist Societies; 7 Tourism Development in China: the Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalization

8 Japan and Tourism in the Pacific Rim: Locating a Sphere of Influence in the Global Economy9 Indian Tourism: Policy, Performance and Pitfalls; 10 The Journey: an Overview of Tourism and Travel in the Arab/Islamic Context; 11 Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean; 12 Resort-based Tourism on the Pleasure Periphery; 13 Child Sex Tourism in Thailand; 14 Community-based Ecotourism, Social Exclusion and the Changing Political Economy of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; 15 Wallace's Line: Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism in Indonesia

16 Ecotourism Development in the Rural Highlands of Fiji17 Afterword; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-00427-8

9786611004279

0-85199-704-X

OCLC:

476105673