Tourism a new perspective / Peter Burns and Andrew Holden.
By: Burns, Peter (Peter M.).
Contributor(s): Holden, Andrew.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Prentice Hall, 1995Description: vii, 239 p ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0131915525.Subject(s): TourismDDC classification: 338.4791Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An introduction to the subject of tourism. This text incorporates the themes of sustainability, the North-South debate and seeing tourism as an international commodity. An international perspective with an underlying theme of Third World issues is integrated.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-235) and index.
Introduction -- Supply and demand: the commoditisation of tourism -- Motivation, tourist's perspectives and marketing -- Globalisation, the North-South debate and tourism employment -- Commodities, culture and the division of labour -- Economic impacts of tourism -- Progress: from rice paddy to golf green - environmental issues and tourism -- Planning, retrospection, interventions and approaches -- Alternative and sustainable tourism development - the way forward?
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Supply and demand: The commoditisation of tourism
- Motivation, tourists' perspectives and marketing
- Globalisation, the North - South debate and tourism employment
- Commodities, culture and the division of labour
- Economic impacts of tourism
- Progress: fromt rice paddy to golf green - environmental issues and tourism
- Planning: retrospection, interventions and approaches
- Alternative and sustainable tourism development - the way forward?
- References
- Index