Many people like to take a break by exploring somewhere new, whether it’s with just a backpack or with a fleet of luggage. But there is more to a holiday that visiting “attractions,” sampling local foods, and napping in a hammock. Being a tourist is easy—tourism is complex.
In this No-Nonsense Guide, Pamela Nowicka explores the third largest industry in the world (after oil and narcotics) and its profound economic, social, and environmental impacts. Taking the reader on a trip from the early days of travel to the first package tours and on to today’s mass tourism, she argues that without a greater commitment to equitable and sustainable practices, tourists of all stripes will continue to be part of the problem, not the solution.
A concise, readable overview of contemporary tourism from a critical perspective.
– Labour / Le Travail
Foreword | by Equations |
Introduction | |
Chapter 1 | What is Tourism? |
Chapter 2 | Tourism as 'Development' |
Chapter 3 | Inside the Tourist |
Chapter 4 | Trouble in Paradise |
Chapter 5 | The New Colonialism |
Chapter 6 | Tourism as Politics |
Chapter 7 | New Tourism |
Contacts | |
Index |