Tourism and political change / edited by Richard W. Butler and Wantanee Suntikul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Richard W.

Suntikul, Wantanee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Goodfellow Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tourism is a vital tool for political and economic change. Calls for boycotts by tourists of countries reflect the huge impact that tourist activity and the tourism industry has on political change.

Contents:

2Politics and Tourism: Interdependency and Implications in Understanding Change; C. Michael Hall; 1Introduction; Wantanee Suntikul and Richard Butler; Part I; Unification/Reunification; 3German Reunification and Tourism in Berlin; Wantanee Suntikul; 4The European Union: Between the Global and the National, and Between Neo-Liberalism and Interventionism; Allan M. Williams and Vladimir Baláž; 5The Implications and Effects of the Handover of Colonies - Macau; Glenn McCartney; Part II; Increasing Autonomy; 6Devolution - Towards Independence: Tourism in Scotland in the 21st Century; Rory MacLellan

7Political Change and Tourism in Arctic CanadaEmma J. Stewart and Dianne Draper; 8Central and Eastern Europe: the End of the Soviet Union and its Satellites; Derek Hall; Part III; Normalisation/Opening; 9Tourism as an Instrument of Foreign Policy: the US Trade Embargo on Cuba; Tom Hinch; 10Arab Politics and Tourism: Political Change and Tourism in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Eleri Jones; 11From Apartheid to a 'Managed Revolution': Tourism Development and the Transition in South Africa; Peter U.C. Dieke; 12Tourism and Political Transition in Reform-Era Vietnam

Wantanee SuntikulPart IV; Political Unrest; 13Tourism and Political Change in Nepal; Sanjay Nepal; 14Political Change and Tourism: Coups in Fiji; David Harrison and Stephen Pratt; 15Iran or Persia: What's in a Name? The Decline and Fall of a Tourism Industry; Tom G. Baum and Kevin D. O'Gorman; Part V; Changes in Political Relations; 16Does Tourism have a Role in Promoting Peace on the Korean Peninsula?; Bruce Prideaux, Jillian Prideaux and Seongseop Kim; 17The Opening of the Ledra Crossing in Nicosia: Social and Economic Consequences

David Jacobson, Bernard Musyck, Stelios Orphanides and Craig Webster18Politics on Ice - Tourism in Antarctica; Thomas G. Bauer; Part VI; Conclusions; 19Conclusions; Richard Butler and Wantanee Suntikul

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612897146

9781282897144

1282897144

9781906884901

1906884900

9786000040475

6000040474

OCLC:

811501165