Table of Contents:
  • Less Developed Countries and Tourism : the Overall Pattern / David Harrison
  • Tourism and Less Developed Countries : Key Issues / David Harrison
  • Tourism Challenges in Developing Nations : Continuity and Change at the Millennium / Linda K. Richter
  • Human Resources in Tourism Development : African Perspectives / Peter U.C. Dieke
  • Tourism in the Southern Common Market : MERCOSUL / Guilherme Santana
  • Tourism and Development in Communist and Post-communist Societies / Derek R. Hall
  • Tourism Development in China : the Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalization / Alan A. Lew
  • Japan and Tourism in the Pacific Rim : Locating a Sphere of Influence in the Global Economy / C. Michael Hall
  • Indian Tourism : Policy, Performance and Pitfalls / Shalini Singh
  • The Journey : an Overview of Tourism and Travel in the Arab/Islamic Context / Heba Aziz
  • Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean / David B. Weaver
  • Resort-based Tourism on the Pleasure Periphery / Brian King
  • Child Sex Tourism in Thailand / Heather Montgomery
  • Community-based Ecotourism, Social Exclusion and the Changing Political Economy of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Frank Brennan and Garth Allen
  • Wallace's Line : Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism in Indonesia / Sheryl Ross and Geoffrey Wall
  • Ecotourism Development in the Rural Highlands of Fiji / Kelly S. Bricker
  • Afterword / David Harrison.