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.

About the Author

William C. Gartner is the author of Tourism Development: Principles, Processes, and Policies, published by Wiley.

Reviews
"...a good overview of many of the issues relevant to tourism development.... It certainly is a book that tourism academics would want to have on their bookshelf..." (International Journal of Tourism Research, May 2002)



Book Information
ISBN 9780471284475
Author William C. Gartner
Format Paperback
Page Count 560
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 1166g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 195mm * 32mm