Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management

by Mason

• ISBN13: 9780750659703
• ISBN10: 075065970X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-16
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three key areas of tourism: impacts, planning and management. Tourism impacts are multi-faceted and therefore are difficult to plan for and manage. This book looks at all the key players involved - be they tourists, host communities or industry members - and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism successfully. Divided into four parts, this text discusses: * The growth, development and impacts of tourism * Tourism planning and management: concepts, issues and key players * Tools and techniques in tourism planning and management: education, regulation and information technology * The future of tourism planning and management: issues of sustainability and the future Up-to-date, international case studies are used, for example the impacts of 9/11 and terrorism in Bali, to illustrate and provide a real-life context for the theories discussed. Exercises are also included to consolidate learning. * Links impacts, planning and management in tourism * Global coverage and perspective with cases and examples from the UK, Australia and USA * Takes an applied approach, using international case studies to explain and illustrate the theories discussed

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Part One Tourism Growth, Development and Impacts
1 Social change and the growth of tourism	3	(16)
2 Theoretical perspectives on tourism development	19	(8)
3 An introduction to tourism impacts	27	(7)
4 The Economic Impacts of Tourism	34	(8)
5 The Socio-cultural impacts of tourism	42	(10)
6 Environmental impacts of tourism	52	(13)
Part Two Tourism Planning and Management: Concepts, Issues and Players
7 Tourism planning and management: concepts and issues	65	(16)
8 The key players in tourism planning and management	81	(17)
9 Visitor management	98	(11)
10 Managing the natural resources for tourism	109	(8)
11 Tourism planning and management and the host community	117	(8)
12 Tourism planning and management and the tourism industry	125	(8)
13 Partnerships and collaboration in tourism	133	(10)
Part Three Tools and Techniques in Tourism Planning and Management
14 Education as a technique in tourism planning and management	143	(9)
15 Self-regulation as a technique in tourism planning and management	152	(7)
16 Information technology and tourism planning and management	159	(6)
Part Four The Future of Tourism Planning and Management
17 Tourism planning and management and sustainability	165	(10)
18 Conclusions and the future of tourism planning and management	175	(7)
References	182	(10)
Index	192