Contemporary Issues in Tourism Development (Routledge Advances in Tourism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041520691X ISBN 13: 9780415206914

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

This work combines a study of contemporary issues in tourism development with a close examination of approaches to tourism research. Looking beyond the much-studied mass tourism industries, leading international academics who are members of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, explore new issues raised by emerging tourist destinations such as Ghana, Samoa, Vietnam and India's Bhyundar Valley.

A fascinating work, Contemporary Issues in Tourism Development discusses a wide range of topics such as:

* reasons for development
* tourism development as a strategy for urban revitalization
* tourism’s links to heritage conservation and regional development
* sustainability and the adverse impacts of development
* cultural considerations and community participation
* the importance of context for individual tourism projects.

About this title

About the Author:

Julio Aramberri is Professor of Tourism at Drexel University, USA. He is a member of the editorial boards of Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Recreation Research, and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. He has authored five books on tourism and other related sociological matters. Between 1987 and 1990 he was General Director of the Tourist Authority of Spain.Richard Butler is Professor of Tourism at the University of Surrey, joining that institution after thirty years at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research interests have been in the process of destination development, the impacts of tourism on destinations, and literary and historical relationships between tourism and islands.

Review:

'I highly recommend this book to researchers, teachers and graduate students in tourism studies, as well as to planners and policy makers involved in community, regional and tourism related development.' - Dimitrios Buhalis, International journal of Tourism Research, 2001)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 041520691X
• ISBN 13: 9780415206914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Butler Richard W., Pearce Douglas G.