Mallorca and tourism : history, economy and environment

R. J. Buswell

In the popular imagination, Mallorca is the archetypal mass tourism resort, one of the world's pioneers of mass tourism, linking the resources of the Mediterranean to the supply of tourists from northern and western Europe. It is now attempting to better manage the ubiquitous transformational environmental and socio-economic impact of the industry. The book identifies and examines critically the major socio-economic and political forces that have played a significant part in the formation of the industry; the development of tourism as a business and efforts to diversify the tourism product as

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Buswell, R. J.
Publisher:	Bristol [u.a.] : Channel View
Subject:	Mallorca \| Majorca \| Tourismus \| Tourism \| Tourismuswirtschaft \| Tourism industry \| Ökotourismus \| Ecotourism \| Tourismusökonomie \| Tourism economics \| Tourismusindustrie
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Extent:	Online Ressource (XV, 213 S.)
Series:	Aspects of tourism ; 49
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Coverpage; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Links between Past and Present?; The Perceptions of Some 19th-Century Visitors from Northern Europe to Mallorca before about 1880; An Island in the Mediterranean; Changing Perceptions: Mallorca Then and Now; 1 An Introduction to Mallorca's Tourism and its Origins; Resources: What Do They Mean?; Climate and Weather; Landforms; 2 Environmental Resources, Perceptions and Constraints for Tourism; Introduction: A Complex of Historical Factors; Mallorca in the late 19th Century: A Changing Economy The Beginnings of Commercial TourismThe Civil War and the Second World War; Post-War Mallorca: The Beginnings of Mass Tourism; 3 The Historical Development of the Tourism Industry from the late 19th Century to the mid-1950s; Introduction: Towards the First Boom; Growth Factors 1960-1973: The British Are Coming!; Tourism and Urbanisation; Negative Impacts; A Few Facts and Figures: Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Tourist Numbers, 1960-1973; 4 When Majorca Was Spelled with a 'J': The First 'Boom' of the 1960s; The First Crisis; Second Homes; Immigration and Tourism; The New Tourists 5 From Crisis to Crisis (1973-2010) with a Continuing Boom in Between!Introduction: Rising Environmental Consciousness; Demographics; Sustainability; Spatial and Temporal Variations; Technical Problems and Partial Solutions; Getting There and Getting About; Tourism and Climate Change; Eco Taxes; 6 Environmental Impact and Sustainability; The Origins of Planning Concepts in Mallorca; Planning and Political Economy; 'Planning' before Planning; Planning in the Modern Era; 7 Policy and Planning for Tourism; Introduction: Some Macroeconomic Aspects; Employment The Hotel Business, the Economy and PoliticsThe Ecotax: A Political Perspective; Internationalisation of Mallorca's Hotel Business; Some Conclusions; 8 Economy, Business and Politics; Introduction: Dependence; New Markets; Diversifying the Tourism Product; Conferences; Cruise Tourism; Golf; Urban Tourism: The Case of Palma; Rural Tourism and the Interior; Sailing; Hiking, Walking and Cycling; Has an Alternative to Diversification Been Found?; 9 New Markets and Diversification; Introduction: Adjustment or Seismic Shift?; History of the Balearic Model; Conclusions; 10 Future Trends Sources and ReferencesIndex Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-1-84541-181-7 ; 978-1-84541-179-4
Classification:	Erholung, Tourismus: Allgemeines ; Europa
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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