Tourism Development: Principles, Processes, and Policies

Tourism Development: Principles, Processes, and Policies
ISBN-10
0471284475
ISBN-13
9780471284475
Series
Tourism Development
Category
Travel / General
Pages
560
Language
English
Published
1996-08-26
Publisher
Wiley
Author
William C. Gartner

Description

For tourism professionals and urban and regional planners, this highly readable text introduces tourism development as a process with its own organizational structures and its own responses to the economic cycle of supply and demand. Here, the author keeps pace with the changing trends in tourism, its link with economic theory, and academic research as well as accessibility to travelers with across-the-board economic backgrounds.

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