Tourism Development Revisited
Concepts, Issues and Paradigms
- Sutheeshna S Babu - Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management, Gwalior and National Institute of Watersports, Goa
- Sitikanta Mishra - Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management, Gwalior
- Bivraj Bhushan Parida - Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management, Bhubaneswar
" The development of tourism in the 21st century
" Emerging models in international tourism
" Challenges faced in emerging markets of East Europe, India and China
" Impact of Internet and online markets on the travel industry
" Changing human resource practices and contributions by the informal sector
" The importance of tourism as a source of economic development
" The dynamics of the global tourist and corporate traveller
" Ecotourism, exotic destinations and experiential tourism
" Fundamental issues in leisure, recreation and tourism
This book endeavours to a critical approach within a multi-disciplinary framework to relook at the complex phenomenon of tourism development. The unusual intellectual freedom of the scholars is clearly demonstrated throughout this book. It deals with the details in the conceptual and paradigmatic evolution of tourism as a socio-economic phenomenon and an industry, contradictions in its development process, tourism in developing world including the fast-growing Chinese and Indian economies, new tourism products and their development and management.
The book…should interest those in the tourism industry hungering for fresh insights.
This book approaches tourism development through a critical prism…it re-examines and re-interprets prevailing dominant paradigms in the subject, leading to new insights and perspectives.
The book offers a diverse commentary and discussion on the development and the business of tourism in the 21st century. This book is recommended for researchers, graduate students, and academicians studying international tourism. In comparison to other books on tourism development, Tourism Development Revisited offers a critical and challenging approach through the interesting and sometimes provocative views of authors who are experts of this complex phenomenon.
