Tourism and the Less Developed World: Issues and Case Studies

by David Harrison

Overview

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 more specific themes that emerge from the interaction of tourism with such societies. Chapters include studies from South Africa, India, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Ecuador, Oceania and the Caribbean.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780851994338
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	10/11/2001
Series:	CABI
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Harrison has been Professor of Tourism at Middlesex University since 2014. Before then, he was Professor of Tourism at the University of the South Pacific (1996-1998 and 2008 to 2014) and similarly at London Metropolitan University (1998-2008). Since 1987, his research has concentrated on tourism in deveioping societies. He is author of The Sociology of Modernisation and Development, (Routledge, 1988), and editor of numerous texts on tourism, including: Tourism and the Less Developed Countries, (Belhaven,1992). Pacific Island Tourism (Cognizant 2003), The Politics of World Heritage (with Michael Hitchcock, Channel View, 2005), Tourism and the Less Developed World, (CABI, 2001). More recently, he has edited Tourism in Pacific Islands (with Stephen Pratt, Routledge, 2015) and, with Richard Sharpley, Mass Tourism in a Small World (CABI, 2017).

Table of Contents

Part One: General Themes Less Developed Countries and Tourism: The Overall Pattern
* Tourism and Less Developed Countries: Key Issues
* Tourism Challenges in Developing Nations: Continuity and Change at the Millennium

Part Two: Tourism in Specific Regions
* Human Resources in Tourism Development: African Perspectives
* Tourism in the Southern Common Market: MERCOSUL
* Tourism and Development in Communist and Post-communist Societies
* Tourism Development in China: The Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalisation
* Japan and Tourism in the Pacific Rim: Locating a Sphere of Influence in the Global Economy
* Indian Tourism: Policy, Performance and Pitfalls
* The Journey: An Overview of Travel and Tourism in the Arab Islamic Context

Part Three: Selected Case Studies Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean
* Resort based Tourism on the Pleasure Periphery
* Child Sex Tourism in Thailand
* Community-based Ecotourism, Social Exclusion and the Changing Political Economy of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
* Wallace's Line: Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism in Indonesia
* Ecotourism Development in the Rural Highlands in Fiji

Part Four: In Conclusion
* Afterword

Editorial Reviews

"The significance of tourism in less developed countries continues to be a matter of contention as many nations seek to expand their industries in pursuit of economic rewards, but become vulnerable to adverse impacts while doing so. The subject is one of relevance to all students of tourism and merits attention in order to raise awareness and improve understanding of tourism's place in contemporary society and the development process. Here, the Editor has assembled a varied and thought-provoking selection of papers to illustrate some of the key issues in the debate ... It is especially illuminating to discover more about locations which usually receive less attention as well as the better documented examples of the Caribbean and Asia Pacific. ... [T]he publication is a timely contribution to the debate about the relationship between tourism and development and a very useful addition to the literature."—Joan Henderson, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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