Critical issues in tourism : a geographical perspective / Gareth Shaw and Allan M. Williams

By:

Shaw, Gareth

Contributor(s):

Williams, Allan M

Publication details: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, cop. 1994Description: xii, 280 pISBN:

0631176764

Summary: Few industries have expanded faster over the past 50 years than tourism. Tourism has brought employment to millions, and given pleasure, variety, rest and recreation to countless numbers of travellers and holidaymakers. At the same time, it has destroyed and polluted pristine environments, threatened local cultures, and frequently devalued just those characteristics of a place that had made it a desirable tourist objective. The issues that tourism raises are of critical and vital importance throughout the world: this book provides a much-needed geographical perspective upon them. The authors focus on the interrelationship between the production and the consumption of tourism and, in so doing, seek to understand the ways in which tourism shapes and reshapes human and physical environments. They analyse the key features of the tourism and leisure industries, and place them in the context of changing social, political and economic structures and behaviour. The argument is illustrated throughout by illustrative case studies of mass, urban and rural tourism, drawn from a wide range of countries, including the developed and developing countries. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02870	1	Available (Disponible)		1900006040

List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- I. An Approach to Tourism : 1. Introduction -- II: Access to Tourism Consumption : 2. The International Dimension ; 3. Social Access to Tourism and Leisure ; 4. Individual Consumption of Tourism -- III. The Production of Tourism Services : 5. The Tourism Industry ; 6. Tourism and Entrepreneurship ; 7. Tourism Employment and Labour Markets -- IV. Tourism Environments : 8. Tourism and Leisure Environments ; 9. Mass Tourism ; 10. Urban Tourism ; 11. Rural Tourism -- V. Future Trends : 12. The Future of Tourism -- Bibliography -- Recommended Reading -- Index

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