“Deborah McLaren has produced a powerful expos of the giant tourism industry and provides much needed advice on alternatives.” — Zac Goldsmith, Editor, The Ecologist
One of the Best Alternative Travel Guides of 2003 — Transitions Abroad, Jan/Feb 2004
Unique features:
-Unique overview of the tourism industry worldwide
-Case studies of indigenous peoples responses to tourism development
-Detailed listing of tourism and ecotourism resources
* Exceptional overview of the tourism industry worldwide
* Case studies of indigenous peoples responses to tourism development
* Detailed listing of tourism and ecotourism resources
This is a fully revised and comprehensive overview of the history and global development of tourism–one of the largest industries in the world. Despite promising great benefits to hosts and guests alike, tourism often results in some very stark and painful consequences for local host communities and the environment.
The second edition provides updated information on global tourism and examines how local communities in different parts of the world, especially indigenous peoples, have responded to the challenges and opportunities of tourism and ecotravel.
“Deborah McLaren has produced a powerful expos of the giant tourism industry and provides much needed advice on alternatives.” — Zac Goldsmith, Editor, The Ecologist
One of the Best Alternative Travel Guides of 2003 — Transitions Abroad, Jan/Feb 2004
Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel 
Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism
Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Gmelch, Tourists and Tourism: A Reader, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577666363).
The original edition of Native Tours provided a much-needed overview and analysis of anthropology s contributions to tourism as an emerging field of study. Such a cultural perspective illuminated key ideas surrounding worldwide host guest relationships and the impacts, both negative and positive, of tourism as one of the world s largest industries. Applying a characteristically uncluttered, authoritative writing style alongside an exceptional command of the relevant literature, Chambers updates, refines, and extends the original concise work. He identifies new or refashioned trends such as green tourism, community-based tourism, heritage and cultural tourism, and domestic tourism in developing nations, as well as discusses how local prejudices influence and often distort views of tourism. Three detailed case studies originating in the American Southwest, the Tirolean Alps, and Belize illustrate the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental costs and benefits of tourism.
