The Politics of Tourism Development [electronic resource] : Booms and Busts in Ireland /
O'Brien, A.author.
Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Part I; 1 Introduction; 2 Capitalist Economies, Sectors, and States: Understanding Tourism; 3 Explaining Irish Development; 4 State Development and Regime Change; Part II; 5 Tourism, the Irish State, and Developmental Failures; 6 Tiger Growth: Tourism's Roaring Trade 1987-2007; 7 Crisis in 2008; Part III; 8 Crisis: The Catalyst for Change; 9 Narrating Crisis in 1987 and Lessons Not Learned in 2008; 10 The Future of Irish Tourism and Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.
Economic development.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Economic policy.
Political science.
Tourism.
Management.
Political economy.
Development Studies.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Development Policy.
Political Science.
Tourism Management.
International Political Economy.