Tourism At The Crossroads Challenges To Developing Countries By The New World Trade Order

This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet interconnected disciplines of tourism studies and development studies. This revised and expanded second edition provides not only a comprehensive theoretical foundation in development studies but also a critical analysis of contemporary themes and issues relevant to the study of tourism and its potential contribution to development. The second edition contains new chapters on the following topics: • Tourism and Poverty Reduction • Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Socio-economic Development • Tourism, Climate Change and Development • Human Rights Issues in Tourism Development • Tourism, Development and International Studies

Sheds light on the legal bases of the new world trade order, documents the progress of liberalization in the tourism sector, identifies its risks and makes proposals for reforms. Takes account of the sectoral problems in developing countries in general and the Indian experience with tourism in particular.

Handbook of Tourism Economics: Analysis, New Applications and Case Studies provides an up-to-date, concise and readable coverage of the most important topics in tourism economics. It pays attention to relevant traditional topics in tourism economics as well as exciting emerging topics in this field — topics which are expected to be of continuing importance. In doing this, it takes account of advances in economic thought, analysis and applied methods.Contributions provide applications of economic analysis to tourism policy and constructive assessment of contemporary thought about tourism economics. The handbook includes several in-depth case studies such as the contribution of tourism to economic development in selected countries including China, India, Japan and Australia, Portugal and Fiji. Coming from diverse countries (both industrialised and developing) and established in the field of tourism economics, travel and management, many of the contributors have been consultants to governments, private organisations, and international bodies, including the UN World Tourism Organisation, the OECD and UNEP. Experts contributing to this volume include the President of the International Association of Tourism Economics, as well as its Secretary-General, the Secretary-General of the Tourism Research Centre (Association of Tourism Research Institutes), the Founder-Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and the former Director of the UK's Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE).

Contents: Sustainable Tourism Development, Sustainable Tourism Illusion or Realistic Alternative?, Sustainable Tourism and the Environment, The Tourism Juggernaut, Ecotourism or Ecocide?, The Biggest Industry the World Has Ever Seen, Pro-poor Tourism, Tourism and the Environment, Biodiversity, Population Growth and Natural Recreation Areas, Economics and Sustainable Development, Living with Diversity, Fresh Water and the Environment, Ecosystems, Our Unknown Protectors, Forests, Forests: The Earth s Lungs, International Trade with the Consumer s Money, World Trade, Free Trade as Peacemaker, Export Subsidies, Add Value, Go Global, Revisiting Bretton Woods, Give Developing Countries A More Favourable Deal, The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) Agreement and the Developing Countries, New Agenda of the WTO, Beyond the Uruguay Round, Developing Countries and the Uruguay Round, Developing Countries and the WTO Agricultural Negotiations, Trading Towards Peace, The Role of Financial Markets and the IMF, Richer of Poorer? Achievements and Challenges of Ethical Trade, What s Driving Migration?, Solving the Unemployment Problem by Looking Beyond the Job, The Population Challenge, Aid Effectiveness as a Multilevel Process, Crisis and New Orientation of Development Policy, Technological Entrepreneurship, The Truth About Global Competition.