About the Book
Many less developed countries are expanding their tourism industries and these are seen to be crucial to their economic development. Yet such activities can also create social, cultural and environmental problems.This book provides a review of many of the key issues involved in tourism in developing countries and presents a range of case studies. These are interpreted from a perspective of the sociology and anthropology of development. Case study chapters are presented from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania. The book provides essential reading for advanced students and researchers in tourism and development studies.
Table of Contents:
Part One: General Themes 1: Less Developed Countries and Tourism: The Overall Pattern, D Harrison 2: Tourism and Less Developed Countries: Key Issues, D Harrison 3: Tourism Challenges in Developing Nations: Continuity and Change at the Millennium, L K Richter, Kansas State University, USA Part Two: Tourism in Specific Regions 4: Human Resources in Tourism Development: African Perspectives, P U C Dieke, University of Strathclyde,UK 5: Tourism in the Southern Common Market: MERCOSUL, G Santana, Universidade do Vale do Itajal, Brazil 6: Tourism and Development in Communist and Post-communist Societies, D R Hall, Scottish AgriculturalCollege, UK 7: Tourism Development in China: The Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalisation,A A Lew, Northern Arizona University, USA 8: Japan and Tourism in the Pacific Rim: Locating a Sphere of Influence in the Global Economy, C M Hall,University of Otago, New Zealand 9: Indian Tourism: Policy, Performance and Pitfalls, S Singh, Centre for Tourism Research and Development, India 10: The Journey: An Overview of Travel and Tourism in the Arab Islamic Context, H Aziz, University of Alexandria, Egypt Part Three: Selected Case Studies 11: Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean, D B Weaver, Griffith University, Australia 12: Resort based Tourism on the Pleasure Periphery, B King, Victoria University, Australia 13: Child Sex Tourism in Thailand, H Montgomery, Open University, UK 14: Community-based Ecotourism, Social Exclusion and the Changing Political Economy of KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa, F Brennan and G Allen, College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, UK 15: Wallace's Line: Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism in Indonesia, S Ross, Parks Canada,and G Wall, University of Waterloo, Canada 16: Ecotourism Development in the Rural Highlands in Fiji, K S Bricker, West Virginia University, USA Part Four: In Conclusion 17: Afterword, D Harrison
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 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, (cab International (l2001). More recently, he has edited Tourism in Pacific Islands (with Stephen Pratt, Routledge, 2015) and, with Richard Sharpley, Mass Tourism in a Small World (CAB International, 2017)
