Tourism and the less developed world : issues and case studies / edited by David Harrison. - Pbk. ed. - Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., 2004. - xi, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Originally published in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Less developed countries and tourism: the overall pattern / David Harrison -- Tourism and less developed countries: key issues / David Harrison -- Tourism challenges in developing nations: continuity and change at the millennium / Linda K. Richter -- Human resources in tourism development: African perspectives / Peter U.C. Dieke -- Tourism in the southern common market: MERCOSUL / Guiherme Santana -- Tourism and development in communist and post-communist societies / Derek R. Hall -- Tourism development in China: the dilemma of bureaucratic decentralization and economic liberalization / Alan A. Lew -- Japan and tourism in the Pacific rim: locating a sphere of influence in the global economy / C. Michael Hall -- Indian tourism: policy, performance and pitfalls / Shalini Singh -- The journey: an overview of tourism and travel in the Arab/Islamic context / Heba Aziz -- Mass tourism and alternative tourism in the Caribbean / David B. Weaver -- Resort-based tourism on the pleasure periphery / Brian King -- Child sex tourism in Thailand / Heather Montgomery -- Community-based ecotourism, social exclusion and the changing political economy of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Frank Brennan and Garth Allen -- Wallace\'s line: implications for conservation and ecotourism in Indonesia / Sheryl Ross and Geoffrey Wall -- Ecotourism development in the rural highlands of Fiji / Kelly S. Bricker.

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Tourism--Developing countries.
Tourisme--Pays en voie de développement.

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