"This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices. It reviews a variety of systems useful for analysing and understanding management issues to offer new...

Tourism today: Why is it a global phenomenon embracing all our lives? -- Tourism: Its origins, growth and future -- Demand: Why do people engage in tourism? -- Transporting the tourist, I: Surface transport -- Transporting the tourist, II: The aviation sector -- Accommodation and hospitality...

"The economic links arising from tourism that now exist between what used to be regarded as 'developed' and 'developing' societies make it imperative they are considered component parts of a global system rather than distinct entities. The central focus of this book is mass tourism across a...