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1. Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts

   An Integrated Approach

   By C. Michael Hall, Alan A. Lew

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts. Although tourism can provide significant economic benefits for some destinations, the image of tourism as a benign and environmentally friendly industry has often...

   Published July 8th 2009 by Routledge
2. Seductions of Place

   Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

   Edited by Carolyn Cartier, Alan A Lew

   Series: Critical Geographies

   The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book...

   Published March 23rd 2005 by Routledge
3. Tourism in China

   By Kaye Sung Chon, Zhang Guangrui, Alan A Lew, John Ap, Lawrence Yu

   Examine China's impact on the world tourism market!Tourism in China is a comprehensive study of tourism and the travel industry in China--past, present, and future. Since joining many of its Asia-Pacific neighbors in identifying tourism as a vehicle for socioeconomic growth and poverty alleviation,...

   Published December 1st 2002 by Routledge