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Book Review: Critical Issues in Tourism (2nd edn)

Book Review: Critical Issues in Tourism (2nd edn) TOU31421 Book Reviews 20/12/2002 11:17 am Page 203 book reviews ts tourist studies sage publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi vol 2(2) 203–213 [1468-7976 (200208)2:2; 203–213; 031420] www.sagepublications.com Critical Issues in Tourism (2nd edn) by Gareth Shaw and Allan M. Williams. London: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 0-631-22414-9 (pbk). This fully updated, revised and enlarged second edition of Shaw and Williams’ ‘Critical Issues’ is welcome. The main themes introduced in the first edition are largely retained and appropriately updated, for example a discussion reflecting the current interest in globalization in a review of the international dimension of tourism, while the most conspicuous addition is contained in an entirely new final chapter which is devoted to a discussion of the challenge of sustainable tourism. Their approach while largely restricted to an analysis of the leisure tourist in developed capitalist economies, is fundamentally a Geographical one that seeks to analyse tourism within the context of leisure behaviour, an approach, which the authors argue, is supported by the increasingly holistic view being adopted by the social sciences. They are adamant that it is unwise for investigators to specialize on the unique features of tourism – rather they argue that every effort should be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

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1468-7976
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TOU31421 Book Reviews 20/12/2002 11:17 am Page 203 book reviews ts tourist studies sage publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi vol 2(2) 203–213 [1468-7976 (200208)2:2; 203–213; 031420] www.sagepublications.com Critical Issues in Tourism (2nd edn) by Gareth Shaw and Allan M. Williams. London: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 0-631-22414-9 (pbk). This fully updated, revised and enlarged second edition of Shaw and Williams’ ‘Critical Issues’ is welcome. The main themes introduced in the first edition are largely retained and appropriately updated, for example a discussion reflecting the current interest in globalization in a review of the international dimension of tourism, while the most conspicuous addition is contained in an entirely new final chapter which is devoted to a discussion of the challenge of sustainable tourism. Their approach while largely restricted to an analysis of the leisure tourist in developed capitalist economies, is fundamentally a Geographical one that seeks to analyse tourism within the context of leisure behaviour, an approach, which the authors argue, is supported by the increasingly holistic view being adopted by the social sciences. They are adamant that it is unwise for investigators to specialize on the unique features of tourism – rather they argue that every effort should be

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Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE

Published: Aug 1, 2002

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