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CONTENTS1 Introduction to tourism management
Tourism as an academic field of study
A sequence of tourism platforms
Universities and VET providers
Characteristics, outline and structure
The basic whole tourism system
Management implications of transit regions
3 The evolution and growth of tourism
Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley
Early modern tourism (1500–1950)
The post-Cook period (1880–1950)
Contemporary tourism (1950 onwards)
Factors associated with increased tourism demand
Transportation technology factors
Australian tourism participation
Global destination patterns: Advanced and emerging economies
Tourism market share and growth
Reasons for the proliferation of the emerging economies as destinations
Pull factors influencing a destination
Geographical proximity to markets
The emergence of simple market segmentation and multilevel segmentation
Niche markets and ‘markets of one’
The destination selection process
Long-term variations in demand
Supply/demand matching strategies
Destination tourism organisations
Economic integration and diversification
Employment (direct and indirect)
Competition with other sectors
9 Sociocultural and environmental impacts of tourism
Promotion of cross-cultural understanding
Incentive to preserve culture and heritage
Promoting social wellbeing and stability
The demonstration effect revisited
The relationship between tourism and crime
Factors contributing to the increased likelihood of sociocultural costs
Management implications of sociocultural and environmental impacts
Application and critique of the Butler sequenceviii
Factors that change the destination cycle
External-unintentional actions
Internal-unintentional actions
Effects of hierarchical diffusion
Effects of contagious diffusion
Model of national tourism development
Dominant Western environmental paradigm
Sustainability and mass tourism
Sustainability and small-scale tourism
Critique of alternative tourism