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Overbooked : the exploding business of travel and tourism / Elizabeth Becker.

By: Becker, Elizabeth.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: x, 448 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781439160992 (hbk.); 1439160996 (hbk.); 9781439167502 (ebk.); 1439167508 (ebk.).Other title: Over-booked : the exploding business of travel and tourism.Subject(s): Tourism | Tourism -- Cross-cultural studies | Tourism -- Political aspects | Tourism -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 338.4/791 Other classification: POL011000 | BUS000000 | TRV000000
Contents:
The business. Tourism becomes an industry -- Cultural tourism : France, Venice and Cambodia. Les vacances -- Postcard from Venice -- Getting it wrong -- Consumer tourism : cruises and Dubai. Cruising : destination nowhere -- Desert fantasies -- Nature tourism : Zambia, Costa Rica and Sri Lanka. Safari -- Becoming green -- Postcard from Sri Lanka : war, revolution, tourism -- The new giant : China. Golden weeks -- The Chinese market -- The old giant : USA. America the exceptional.
Summary: Investigates the travel industry, which is second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 338.4791 B388 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003621885

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. The business. Tourism becomes an industry -- pt. 2. Cultural tourism : France, Venice and Cambodia. Les vacances -- Postcard from Venice -- Getting it wrong -- pt. 3. Consumer tourism : cruises and Dubai. Cruising : destination nowhere -- Desert fantasies -- pt. 4. Nature tourism : Zambia, Costa Rica and Sri Lanka. Safari -- Becoming green -- Postcard from Sri Lanka : war, revolution, tourism -- pt. 5. The new giant : China. Golden weeks -- The Chinese market -- pt. 6. The old giant : USA. America the exceptional.

Investigates the travel industry, which is second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy.

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