Provides an introduction to the tourism-development process. This book questions assumptions about the role of tourism in development and highlights the dilemmas faced by destinations seeking to achieve development through tourism. It is intended for those investigating tourism issues in developing [...]
Aims to consider the future direction of the study of tourism. This book charts the development of tourism as an area of study, critiques contemporary epistemologies of tourism framed around the social science versus management dichotomy, and offers alternative approaches to the study of tourism.[...]
"Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability?" challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable tourism debate beyond the arguabl[...]
This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet interconnected disciplines of tourism studies and development studies. This revised and expanded second edition provides not only a comprehensive theoretical [...]