The politics of tourism development : booms and busts in Ireland / Anne O'Brien.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: viii, 213 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780230284388 (hbk.)
- 0230284388
- 338.4791 OBR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.
Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Part I; 1 Introduction; 2 Capitalist Economies, Sectors, and States: Understanding Tourism; 3 Explaining Irish Development; 4 State Development and Regime Change; Part II; 5 Tourism, the Irish State, and Developmental Failures; 6 Tiger Growth: Tourism\'s Roaring Trade 1987-2007; 7 Crisis in 2008; Part III; 8 Crisis: The Catalyst for Change; 9 Narrating Crisis in 1987 and Lessons Not Learned in 2008; 10 The Future of Irish Tourism and Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures\' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. vi)
- List of Abbreviations (p. viii)
- Part I
- Introduction (p. 3)
- 2 Capitalist Economies, Sectors, and States: Understanding Tourism (p. 16)
- 3 Explaining Irish Development (p. 35)
- 4 State Development and Regime Change (p. 56)
- Part II
- 5 Tourism, the Irish State, and Developmental Failures (p. 75)
- 6 Tiger Growth: Tourism's Roaring Trade 1987-2007 (p. 97)
- 7 Crisis in 2008 (p. 122)
- Part III
- 8 Crisis: The Catalyst for Change (p. 149)
- 9 Narrating Crisis in 1987 and Lessons Not Learned in 2008 (p. 164)
- 10 The Future of Irish Tourism and Conclusions (p. 177)
- Notes (p. 192)
- Bibliography (p. 197)
- Index (p. 210)