1. Introduction Part 1 2. Globalisation, Sustainability, Development 3. Power and Tourism 4. Tourism and Sustainability Part 2 The Actors 5. A New Class of Tourist: trendies on the trail 6. Socio-Environmental Organisations: where shall we save next? 7. The Industry: lies, damned lies and sustainability 8. 'Hosts' and Destinations: for what we are about to receive..9. Governance, Governments and Tourism: selling the Third World Part 3 New Issues 10. Climate Change, Carbon Accounting and New Tourism 11. New Tourism and the Poor 12. New Tourism in Cities: guess who's coming to town? 13. Conclusion
Martin Mowforth is a freelance researcher specialising in issues of environment, development, sustainability and human rights in the region of Central America. He is also a part-time associate lecturer in human geography at Plymouth University, UK.
Ian Munt is a freelance human settlements specialist and has worked on projects with UN agencies, bilateral donors and non-governmental organisations in Central America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe.
Comments on the fourth edition:"This book meets the continuing need
for a clear-eyed, critical look at the global tourism industry and
its sometimes uncomfortable relationship with ongoing problems of
uneven development and inequality, especially in the less developed
world. Mowforth and Munt write incisively of complex matters, yet
their work has a real humanity at its core. This new edition will
be a key resource for another generation of students and
researchers."Dr Mark Hampton, Reader in Tourism Management,
University of KentCommonly associated with lightness and frivolity,
with sand beaches and holidays, the authors fully succeed in their
goal of repositioning tourism as a serious and important discipline
within political science and development. In this fourth edition
Mowforth and Munt masterfully accomplish what seemed impossible:
they deepen further the enquiry, updating throughout with new
events and case studies, and adding three new chapters bridging the
links between tourism and poverty, human security, migration,
terrorism and urbanisation. Never before has an analysis been so
far-reaching, so present-to-day, so perceptive. An essential volume
for students and academics across a wide range of disciplines and
for all those interested in understanding our contemporary world
through the powerful lens that tourism offers.Professor Andréa
Sousa Dantas, Department of Tourism, Federal University of Rio
Grande do Norte, Brazil In short, this fourth edition updates the
states of matter and analysis of the debates raised in the past,
and introduces new issues that increasingly abundant academic
literature has generated in recent years. It does so by staying
away from the conformist or slightly reformist visions, as already
mentioned, they are dominant. Thanks to all this, it remains a
necessary reference text, essential to understand the development
of the tourism phenomenon (especially in countries of the global
South) and to meet the academic analysis done about it.Jordi
Gascón, Universitat de Barcelona & Foro de Turismo
ResponsableReviews on previous editions of Tourism and
Sustainability:‘This book should be compulsory reading for all
those engaged in tourism research.’ – Erlet Cater, In Focus,
Tourism Concern
‘…one of the most significant books produced on tourism in the past
few years.’– Geoffrey Wall, Annals of Tourism Research
‘A valuable and overdue contribution to a multi-disciplinary area.
This book meets the challenge to say something clear and
interesting in a quicksand of ambiguities.’ – Professor John Lea,
University of Sydney
‘Informative, stimulating, and provocative, the book deserves to be
read by a wide audience … It is absolutely essential reading for
all those serious scholars of tourism studies wishing to appreciate
"the bigger picture".’– Brian Wheeller, Annals of Tourism
Research
‘…the book is quite simply one of the most important theoretical
contributions to the growing subdiscipline of tourism geography and
is likely to be a mainstay for many years to come.’– Keith Debbage,
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
‘…a far-reaching, timely and quite penetrating critique of some of
the forms of tourism that have emerged as a direct response to the
clarion call for sustainable tourism development’– Michael
Parnwell, Journal of Development Studies
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