1st Edition

From Heritage to Terrorism Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty

By Brian Simpson, Cheryl Simpson Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Critical in style, From Heritage to Terrorism: Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty examines the law and its role in shaping and defining tourism and the tourist experience. Using a broad range of legal documents and other materials from a variety of disciplines, it surveys how the underlying values of tourism often conflict with a concern for human rights, cultural heritage and... Read more

Part 1: Law in Tourism  1. Conceptualising Tourism and the Tourist as a Legal Problem  Part 2: Tourism as a Just Cause  2. Establishing the Exalted Tourist  3. The Urban Tourist: Inserting the Tourist into the Cityscape  4. The Cultural Tourist: Culture as Tourism  Part 3: Tourism as Transgression  5. The Targetted Tourist: The Legal Construction of Fear  6. The Pleasure Tourist: Sex Tourism as a Legal Dilemma  7. Work and Death in Tourism: Darkness and Voyeurism  Part 4: Tourism in Law  8. Conclusion: Tourism as a Legal Problem

Biography

Brian Simpson is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia.

Cheryl Simpson is a Lecturer in Legal Studies at Flinders University in Australia.