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This new book reviews all aspects of the phenomenon of mass tourism. It covers theoretical perspectives (including political economy, ethics, sustainability and environmentalism), the historical context, and the current challenges to domestic, intra-regional and international mass tourism.
As tourism and tourist numbers continue to grow around the world, it becomes increasingly important that this subject is studied in depth and best practice applied in real-life situations. This book:
- Is the first to address a range of theoretical issues relating to mass tourism;
- Uses a wide selection of case studies to translate theory into practice, covering the historical rise and fall of UK seaside resorts, the increase in Chinese tourism, conflict between different mass tourism groups, destination transformation from mass to niche tourism, and specific problems facing cruise ships;
- Is written by a range of international, established authors to give a global perspective on the subject.
Finishing with a speculative chapter identifying potential future trends and challenges, this book forms an essential resource for all researchers and students within tourism studies. ;
- Section 1: Introduction
- 1: Introduction: Mass Tourism in a Small World
- Section 2: Theoretical Approaches to Mass Tourism
- 2: Mass Tourism Does Not Need Defending
- 3: The Morality of Mass Tourism
- 4: The Political Economy of Mass Tourism and its Contradictions
- 5: A Theoretical Approach to Mass Tourism in Italy
- 6: Sustainability and Mass Tourism: A Contradiction in Terms?
- 7: Mass Tourism and the Environment: Issues and Dilemmas
- Section 3: Historical Studies of Tourism Development
- 8: The Dynamics of Tourism Development in Britain: The Profit Motive and that ‘Curious’ Alliance of Private Capital and the Local State
- 9: From Holiday Camps to the All-inclusive: the ‘Butlinization’ of Tourism
- 10: Decline Beside the Seaside: British Seaside Resorts and Declinism
- 11: Mass Tourism and the US National Park Service System
- 12: Transport and Tourism: The Perpetual Link
- Section 4: Case Studies in Modern Mass Tourism
- 13: Mass Tourism and China
- 14: Mass Tourism in Thailand: The Chinese and Russians
- 15: Mass Tourism in Bulgaria: The Force Awakens
- 16: Mass Tourism in Mallorca: Examples from Calivià
- 17: Tunisia: Mass Tourism in Crisis?
- 18: From Blue to Grey? Malta’s Quest from Mass Beach to Niche Heritage Tourism
- 19: Cruise Ship Tourism in the Caribbean: The Mess of Mass Tourism
- Section 5: The Future
- 20: Conclusion: Mass Tourism in the Future
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Author Biography
is a sociologist/anthropologist of development and has spent two decades teaching sociology at Sussex University in the UK and later taught for nine years at the University of the South Pacific and for ten years at London Metropolitan University, before going to Middlesex University in 2014. His basic approach to development issues emerged in his single-authored text The Sociology of Modernization and Development (1988), and he went on to edit numerous books on tourism, including Tourism and the Less Developed Countries (1992), Tourism and the Less Developed World (2001) and Pacific Island Tourism (2003), and co-editor of many others, including The Politics of World Heritage (with Michael Hitchcock (2005), and Tourism in Pacific Islands (with Stephen Pratt) (2015). He has also written numerous papers in refereed journals and chapters in books on tourism and development. A Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of
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- Publisher CAB International
- Publication Date May 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781780648545 / 1780648545
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 85 GBP
- Pages256
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2017
- Dimensions244 X 172 mm
- Reference Code3802
