Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. The Role of Tourism in … Developing Places / Ryan, Chris / Huang, Songshan -- 3. A Model of Mountain Region Rural Tourism Development: The Case of … Suichang / Zhou, Yongguang / Jiang, Yifan -- 4. Institutional Opportunism in Tourism Investment / Bao, Jigang / Zuo, Bing -- 5 …

Chris Ryan, as editor of Tourism Management, the author of several books and a researcher with an international … reputation, has revisited his book, Recreational Tourism, after a gap of more than ten years. This new edition is an appraisal of … greater degree of specialisation that now exists in the tourism literature. The book is primarily concerned with the …