Tourism and Sustainability: Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the Third World

by Mowforth; Martin

• ISBN13: 9780415414036
• ISBN10: 0415414032
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-11-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale", so concludes the World Bank#xE2;#xAC;"s 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy first world nations go ever higher, whilst the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct. So how exactly can tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality and gap between the rich and the poor? Are ever expanding tourism markets #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; and the new, responsible, forms of tourism in particular #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; a smoke free, socio-culturally sensitive form of human industrialisation? Is alternative tourism really a credible lever for lifting poverty stricken countries out of the mire of global inequality, setting them on the right track to #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;development#xE2;#xAC;", and making poverty history? Tourism and Sustainabilitycritically explores and challenges what have emerged as the most significant universal geopolitical norms of the last half century #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; development, globalization and sustainability #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; and through the lens of new forms of tourism demonstrates how we can better understand and get to grips with the rapidly changing new global order. This third edition has been extensively updated and includes new material on: poverty reduction, livelihoods and pro-poor tourism new forms of tourism in cities continuing growth of the fair trade movement tourism#xE2;#xAC;"s contribution to climate change volunteer and #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;gap#xE2;#xAC;" tourism affect of disasters on new tourism. Drawing on a range of examples from across the Third World, Tourism and Sustainabilityillustrates the social, economic and environmental conditions for the growth of new tourism. The book is original in its assessment of tourism through the lens of power #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; who holds it; how it is used; and who benefits from the exercise of power in the tourism industry. Additionally, the analysis is an interdisciplinary one and the book will therefore be useful to students of Human Geography, Environmental Sciences and Studies, Politics, Development Studies, Anthropology and Business Studies as well as Tourism itself.

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
List of abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Globalisation, sustainability, development	p. 11
Power and tourism	p. 47
Tourism and sustainability	p. 83
A new class of tourist: trendies on the trail	p. 120
Socio-environmental organisations: where shall we save next?	p. 148
The industry: lies, damned lies and sustainability	p. 177
'Hosts' and destinations: for what we are about to receive ...	p. 224
Cities and tourism: guess who's coming to town?	p. 268
Governance, governments and tourism: selling the Third World	p. 293
New tourism and the poor: making poverty history?	p. 335
Conclusion	p. 369
Travel and tourism-related websites	p. 384
Websites relating to carbon budgets and carbon offsetting	p. 387
References	p. 388
Index	p. 412
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