Managing Tourism Growth
Subtitle: Issues And Applications
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: April 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781559636056
Subjects: Tourism industry; Tourism; Industries - General; Tourist Trade Management; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Business/Economics; Management; Planning; Architecture / Planning; Political Science / Public Policy; Development - Business Development; Development - Economic Development
First sentence: Contemporary tourism is a vast and rapidly expanding industry that claims to be the "largest industry in the world, measured by gross output, value added, capital investment, employment and tax contributions."
Description: "Managing Tourism Growth analyzes and evaluates methods by which communities can carefully control tourism in order to maximize its positive aspects while minimizing its detrimental effects. The authors offer vivid examples of the ways in which uncontrolled tourism can adversely affect a community and explain how to create an effective strategy that can protect tourism resources for current and future generations.".

"The depth and accessibility of information provided, along with the wealth of global case studies, make the book must-reading for planning professionals, government officials, tourism industry executives, consultants, and faculty and students of geography, planning, or tourism."--BOOK JACKET.