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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Tourism is integral to local, regional and national development policies; as a major global economic sector, it has the potential to underpin economic growth and wider development. Yet, transformations in both the nature of tourism and the dynamic environment within which it occurs give rise to new questions with regards to its developmental role. This Research Agenda offers a state-of-the-art review of the research into the tourism-development nexus.
Bringing together contributors from across the globe, this Research Agenda answers the key questions including: Are growth-focused tourism policies becoming increasingly detrimental to destination development? Can mass forms of tourism in fact generate more benefits than alternative forms of tourism? Does the role of the state in supporting tourism-induced development require reconsideration? How effective is tourism-related philanthropy in contributing to development? Is community-based tourism a realistic development policy? To what extent can tourism contribute to what is still the most pressing development challenge, namely poverty reduction?
A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development offers valuable insights for students and researchers of development studies and tourism, as well as for policymakers and practitioners in tourism industries.
Trade Review‘The book serves as a valuable guide for graduate students and scholars from different disciplines and contexts to contribute to comprehensive knowledge and understanding on tourism and development by situating tourism in a broader global development agenda, and contributes to efforts for better rebuilding tourism.’ -- Bengi Ertuna, Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism
Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: tourism and development – towards a research agenda Richard Sharpley and David Harrison 2. A policy research agenda for tourism and development Dianne Dredge 3. The tourism-development nexus from a governance perspective: a research agenda Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 4. NGOs, tourism and development Helene Balslev Clausen 5. Travel philanthropy and development Amy Scarth and Marina Novelli 6. Tourism and Poverty David Harrison and Stephen Pratt 7. Community-based tourism and ‘development’ Tazim Jamal, Christine Budke and Ingrid Barradas-Bribiesca 8. Tourism, development and the consumption of tourism Richard Sharpley 9. Now everyone can sail: on the need to understand mass tourism Julio Aramberri 10. A sustainable hospitality and tourism workforce research agenda – exploring the past to create a vision for the future Shelagh Mooney and Tom Baum 11. Tourism and (re)development in developed nations David J. Telfer Index
