Tourism and society : a guide to problems and issues /
An approach to tourism primarily from the perspective of sociology and anthropology.
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State College, Pa. :
Venture Pub.,
[2000]
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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.