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The politics of tourism development : booms and busts in Ireland / Anne O'Brien.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: viii, 213 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780230284388 (hbk.)
  • 0230284388
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4791 OBR
Contents:
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;
Summary: 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.
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 338.4791 OBR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100505982

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)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

ANNE O' BRIEN Co-ordinates Provision by Kairos Communications Ltd. of Broadcast Production modules for the Centre for Media Studies at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She has produced a number of documentaries for Irish national broadcasters RTE and TG4.

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