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TS 36448 Book Revs 29/8/2003 12:21 pm Page 314 tourist studies 2:3 the emphasis is put on social and cultural issues unavoidably arising when LDCs decide to expand their national tourist sector.This especially when they are not pre- pared to – or perhaps not able to – give due consideration to the consequences that it will trigger among the local population beyond the narrow scope of economic profitability. This book, in fact, proves once again and in a number of locations throughout the world that the economy is truly embedded in the social realm, and that the systemic connections between these two dimensions in any given society will ensure that what impacts on one will also reverberate on the other. Tourism, in this regard, shares many characteristics with a range of other economic sectors. Interestingly, of these 13 case studies, seven are grouped in a section called ‘Tourism in specific regions’ and present a macroscopic vision of cultural/social/political/national entities. These are Africa, South-America, the Communist and Post-Communist world, China, Japan (and the Pacific Rim), India, and Muslim-Arabic countries.The next block comprising six case studies is used to exemplify particular forms of tourism linked to social development: mass versus alternative
Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 2002
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