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1. Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals

   Tourism, Local Communities and Development

   Edited by Jarkko Saarinen, Christian Rogerson, Haretsebe Manwa

   In 2000 United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs), committing the member nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of specific targets with a deadline of 2015. Related to the UN MDGs, tourism is increasingly seen as a promising...

   To Be Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Tourism and Change in Polar Regions

   Climate, Environments and Experiences

   By Michael Hall, Jarkko Saarinen

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   The world’s polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before. Once regarded as barren, inhospitable places where only explorers go, the north and south polar regions have been transformed into high profile tourism destinations, increasingly visited by cruise ships as well as becoming...

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge