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  • Review of Harrison, D. Tourism and the Less Developed World: Issues and Case Studies

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    Buckley, R
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    Buckley, Ralf
    Year published
    2002
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    Abstract
    David Harrison has assembled 16 colleagues, mostly from the United Kingdom and North America, to summarize their tourism development experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. Although all papers provide useful insights, the opening and concluding papers by Harrison himself provide the most interesting and provocative content of the collection. He sets the tone for the volume at the outset by observing, “[t]he notion of ‘sustainable tourism’ is at best ambiguous and more often than not virtually useless … the tourism industry can be sustained for long periods, albeit at the cost of specific destination ...
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    David Harrison has assembled 16 colleagues, mostly from the United Kingdom and North America, to summarize their tourism development experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. Although all papers provide useful insights, the opening and concluding papers by Harrison himself provide the most interesting and provocative content of the collection. He sets the tone for the volume at the outset by observing, “[t]he notion of ‘sustainable tourism’ is at best ambiguous and more often than not virtually useless … the tourism industry can be sustained for long periods, albeit at the cost of specific destination areas, environments, and communities” (p. 8).
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    Journal Title
    Annals of Tourism Research
    Volume
    29
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-7383(02)00040-3
    Copyright Statement
    © 2002 Elsevier. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Commercial services
    Marketing
    Tourism
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/24829
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