Tourism and society : a guide to problems and issues /

An approach to tourism primarily from the perspective of sociology and anthropology.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wyllie, Robert W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: State College, Pa. : Venture Pub., [2000]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A multidisciplinary field
  • Some characteristics of tourism literature
  • Other sources of information on tourism
  • Research perspectives
  • Identifying tourists and tourism
  • Premodern tourism
  • Modern developments
  • Postmodern tourism?
  • A range of possibilities
  • Stages of resort development
  • Types of tourists
  • Types of hosts
  • Keeping things in perspective
  • Tourism as an industry
  • Tourism as big business
  • Tourism as export industry
  • Tourism's economic benefits
  • Economic costs and drawbacks
  • Tourism development and the Jafari Thesis
  • Cultural commoditization
  • Commoditizing cultural performances
  • Commoditizing arts and crafts
  • Commoditizing the past
  • Cultural commoditization revisited
  • Tourism and sex
  • Sex tourism in Southeast Asia
  • Sex tourism in Thailand
  • Child prostitution
  • Sex tourism for women?
  • Some loose ends
  • Tourism and the environment
  • Evaluating tourism's environmental effects
  • Tourism and environment in conflict : some examples
  • Back to nature
  • Keeping things in perspective
  • Government involvement in tourism
  • The world's peace industry?
  • Tourism and political ideology
  • Tourism and political instability
  • Politics and tourism in Ghana
  • But should we go there?
  • Hawaiian tourism
  • Tourism in Maui
  • Tourism and public controversy
  • Tourism development
  • Destination image
  • Charter tourism from the inside
  • Tourism problems
  • Alternative tourism
  • Tourism alternatives
  • Community tourism
  • Toward a new tourism?
  • Tourism for all?
  • The World Tourism Organization global code of ethics for tourism.