Tourism and sustainability : development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World /
By: Mowforth, Martin.
Contributor(s): Munt, Ian.
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon, England : Routledge, 2016Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xx, 455 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138013254 (hardback : alk. paper); 9781138013254:; 1138013250 (hardback : alk. paper); 9781138013261 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1138013269 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Tourism -- Developing countries | Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries | Sustainable deblopment -- Developing countries | Ecotourism | Sustainable development -- Developing countriesDDC classification: 338.4791| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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includes bibliographic references and index.
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface to fourth edition -- Acknowledegements -- Chapter 1 : introduction -- Chapter 2 : globalisation, sustainability, devlopment -- Chapter 3 : power and tourism -- Chapter 4 : tourism and sustainaibility -- Chapter 5 : a new class of tourist : trendies on the trail -- Chapter 6 : socio-economic organisations : where shall we save next? -- Chapter 7 : the industry : lies, damned lies and sustainability -- Chapter 8 : 'hosts' and destinations : for what we about to receive -- Chapter 9 : governance, governments and tourism : selling the Third World -- Chapter 10 : climate change and new tourism : the elephant in the room -- Chapter11 : new tourism and the poor : making poverty history? -- Chapter 12 : cities and new tourism : guess who's coming to town? -- Chapter 13 : conclusion -- Appendix 1 : travel and tourism-related websites -- Appendix 2 : websites relating to carbon budgets and carbon offsetting -- References -- Index.
The authors challenge the notion of sustainability and its relationship to contemporary tourism in the developing world, then discuss alternative channels of tourism development and the impact of tourism policies at local, national and global level.