What is the thruth behind the paradise beaches in travel brocures? What can a developing country do when one exotic holiday seems much like another, when political instability or environmental disaster can deter tourist for years, when the tourism industry slips into foreign control?
Tourism and Development in the Third World assess the diverse social, economic, and environmental factors which impact on the Third World. Illustrating the analysis with cases which range across tourism in game parks, sex tours and the after-efects of political turmoil, the book explores ways of managing tourism as a resource and evaluates its long-term contribution towards national development.

John Lea is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney.

1 General introduction 2 Conceptualizing tourism's place in development 3 Tourism demand and the supply of facilities 4 Tourism's economic impacts 5 Tourism's environmental, social, and cultural impacts 6 Planning and management of tourism Review questions, references, and further reading, Index