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Tourism and Political Change.
Title:
Tourism and Political Change.
Author:
Butler, Richard.
ISBN:
9781906884901
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Contents:
2 Politics and Tourism: Interdependency and Implications in Understanding Change -- C. Michael Hall -- 1 Introduction -- Wantanee Suntikul and Richard Butler -- Part I -- Unification/Reunification -- 3 German Reunification and Tourism in Berlin -- Wantanee Suntikul -- 4 The European Union: Between the Global and the National, and Between Neo-Liberalism and Interventionism -- Allan M. Williams and Vladimir Baláž -- 5 The Implications and Effects of the Handover of Colonies - Macau -- Glenn McCartney -- Part II -- Increasing Autonomy -- 6 Devolution - Towards Independence: Tourism in Scotland in the 21st Century -- Rory MacLellan -- 7 Political Change and Tourism in Arctic Canada -- Emma J. Stewart and Dianne Draper -- 8 Central and Eastern Europe: the End of the Soviet Union and its Satellites -- Derek Hall -- Part III -- Normalisation/Opening -- 9 Tourism as an Instrument of Foreign Policy: the US Trade Embargo on Cuba -- Tom Hinch -- 10 Arab Politics and Tourism: Political Change and Tourism in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya -- Eleri Jones -- 11 From Apartheid to a 'Managed Revolution': Tourism Development and the Transition in South Africa -- Peter U.C. Dieke -- 12 Tourism and Political Transition in Reform-Era Vietnam -- Wantanee Suntikul -- Part IV -- Political Unrest -- 13 Tourism and Political Change in Nepal -- Sanjay Nepal -- 14 Political Change and Tourism: Coups in Fiji -- David Harrison and Stephen Pratt -- 15 Iran or Persia: What's in a Name? The Decline and Fall of a Tourism Industry -- Tom G. Baum and Kevin D. O'Gorman -- Part V -- Changes in Political Relations -- 16 Does Tourism have a Role in Promoting Peace on the Korean Peninsula? -- Bruce Prideaux, Jillian Prideaux and Seongseop Kim -- 17 The Opening of the Ledra Crossing in Nicosia: Social and Economic Consequences.

David Jacobson, Bernard Musyck, Stelios Orphanides and Craig Webster -- 18 Politics on Ice - Tourism in Antarctica -- Thomas G. Bauer -- Part VI -- Conclusions -- 19 Conclusions -- Richard Butler and Wantanee Suntikul.
Abstract:
Tourism is a vital tool for political and economic change. Calls for boycotts by tourists of countries reflect the huge impact that tourist activity and the tourism industry has on political change.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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