Tourism And Community Development
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Weaving Tourism into Community: four stories over time $24.95 Weaving Tourism into Communities: four stories over time provides a unique look at four communities over two decades. University of Minnesota Tourism Center researchers returned to four communities first profiled in 1991 to learn how these communities have fared with tourism. In their own words, community leaders describe the changes, benefits and challenges their community has experienced fr… |
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Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy (The Metropolis and Modern Life) $33.50 Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world’s cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines the implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for success and failure in metropolitan change. Uniquely suited for teaching purposes, Costas Spirou integ… |
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Tourism and Recreation in Rural Areas $161.37 Recent years have witnessed a change from the passive, low key use of rural areas for recreation to the explosion of tourism as a highly active and dominant agent of change and control in the countryside and associated rural communities. This book considers the effects of rural recreation and tourism with special reference to:* the economics of rural restructuring* public sector rural policies* im… |
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Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America $21.28 Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill’s comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates that empire is a more textured, variable, and interactive system of inequality and resistance … |