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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface to fourth edition
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Purpose and limits of the book
Tourism as a multidisciplinary subject
Key themes and key words
Tourism and geographical imagination
Layout of the book
Chapter 2 Globalisation, sustainability, development
Tourism in a shrinking world
Uneven and unequal development
Sustainability and global change
Development and the Third World
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Power and tourism
Power play
The political economy of Third World tourism
Tourism as domination
Alternative critiques for alternative tourism?
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Tourism and sustainability
Mass tourism and the origins of new forms of tourism
Resulting problems and the rise of new forms of tourism
Terminology
Defining the ‘new’ tourism
The principles of sustainability in tourism
Agenda 21 and sustainable development in tourism
The tools of sustainability in tourism
Whither sustainability in tourism?
Chapter 5 A new class of tourist: trendies on the trail
Class, capital and travel
A new class of tourist?
The scramble for Third World destinations
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Socio-environmental organisations: where shall we save next?
New socio-environmental movements
Environmentalism and new tourism
Environmentalism and power
Conclusion
Chapter 7 The industry: lies, damned lies and sustainability
Trade and tourism
Size and structure of the industry
Redefining sustainability
New personnel and features of the new tourism industry
Conclusion
Chapter 8 ‘Hosts’ and destinations: for what we are about to receive …
Local participation in decision-making
Government control/community control
Displacement and resettlement
Visitor and host attitudes
Conclusion
Chapter 9 Governance, governments and tourism: selling the Third World
The politics of tourism
Assessing the politics of tourism
Tourism as politics
Globalisation and the politics of external influences
Sustainable tourism as political discourse
Conclusion
Chapter 10 Climate change and new tourism: the elephant in the room
Mitigating the impact of new tourism
Cutting back new tourism: the degrowth agenda
Adapting to climate change: can new tourism destinations survive?
Conclusion
Chapter 11 New tourism and the poor: making poverty history?
Understanding poverty
The Millennium Development Goals and tourism
Pro-poor tourism
Migration and remittances
Human security
Conclusion
Chapter 12 Cities and new tourism: guess who’s coming to town?
Urbanisation as the antithesis of development
Cities as economic machines
Recycling places: heritage and the urban poor
Pro-poor city tourism?
Slum tourism: aestheticising the poor or taking control?
Conclusion
Chapter 13 Conclusion
Key themes and key words
New forms of Third World tourism
Globalisation, sustainability and development
Sustainability and power
New tourism, new critiques
Whither new forms of tourism?
Appendix 1 Travel and tourism-related websites
Appendix 2 Websites relating to carbon budgets and carbon offsetting
References
Index
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