Controversies in tourism / / edited by Omar Moufakkir and Peter Burns

• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/791
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Social aspects; Tourism
• Altri autori: BurnsPeter (Peter M.) MoufakkirOmar
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Of Ethics, Leisure and Tourism: The â€?Serious Fun of Doing Tourismâ€?""; ""2 A Common Tourism Policy for the European Union: A Historical Perspective""; ""3 Authenticity and Commodification: The Selling of Mayan Culture in Mexicoâ€?s Mayan Riviera""; ""4 Authenticity Versus Development: Tourism to the Hill Tribes of Thailand""; ""5 Controversies in Medical Tourism""; ""6 Ethical Issues in Trophy Hunting""; ""7 Ecotourism: A Maturing Discourse with Some Established Controversy"" ; ""8 Ethnic Panopticon: A Controversy in Aboriginal Tourism""""9 Gaming in the USA: Historical Development, Controversies and Current Status""; ""10 Golf Tourism: The Case of Cyprus""; ""11 Residential Tourism or Lifestyle Migration: Social Problems Linked to the Non-Definition of the Situation""; ""12 Surrealist Pilgrims, Melting Clocks in Marble Halls: Dark Tourism for a Postmodern World""; ""13 The Golden Jubilee of Independence and Panafest in Ghana: â€?All that Glitters is not Goldâ€?"" ; ""14 The Ideological Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in the Promotion of International Tourism""""15 The Paradoxes of Tourism Encounters in the Mass Tourism Spaces of the Gambia""; ""16 Tourism or Conservation? A Controversy in Chitwan National Park, Nepal""; ""17 Volunteer Tourism: Commodified Trend or New Phenomenon?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""
• Sommario/riassunto: Tourism impacts on locations in many ways - socially, environmentally, culturally, and economically. This book examines some well established controversies in tourism and some newly emerging controversial aspects associated with tourism as an activity and a business. Controversies involving clashes between visitors and host communities, the rights and wrongs of eco-tourism, the impacts of mega-events, the legitimacy of dark tourism, and the costs and benefits of medical and wildlife tourism are assessed. This book is an interesting and thought provoking work ideal for tourism students, researc
• Titolo autorizzato: Controversies in tourism
• ISBN: 1-283-42584-X; 9786613425843; 1-84593-953-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910627296003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II