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Overbooked :the exploding business of travel and tourism /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : 單行本
正題名/作者:	Overbooked :/ Elizabeth Becker.
其他題名:	the exploding business of travel and tourism /
作者:	Becker, Elizabeth.
出版者:	New York :Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,2016.
面頁冊數:	x, 448 p. :ill. ;21 cm.
標題:	Tourism. -
ISBN:	9781439161005 (paperback) :
ISBN:	1439161003 (paperback)

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

Overbooked :the exploding business of travel and tourism /Elizabeth Becker. - 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed. - New York :Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,2016. - x, 448 p. :ill. ;21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-425) and index.

Part i. The business : Tourism becomes an industry -- Part II. Cultural tourism: France, Venice and Cambodia : Les vacances -- Postcard from Venice -- Getting it wrong -- Part III. Consumer tourism: cruises and Dubai : Cruising: destination nowhere -- Desert fantasies -- Part IV. Nature tourism: Zambia, Costa Rica and Sri Lanka : Safari -- Becoming green -- Postcard from Sri Lanka: war, revolution, tourism -- Part V. The New Giant: China : Golden weeks -- The Chinese market. -- Part VI. The old giant: USA : America the exceptional.

Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of twelve people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, the author traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month, then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Her depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781439161005 (paperback) :NT441Subjects--Topical Terms:

162746
Tourism.

LC Class. No.: G155.A1 / B382 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 338.4/791

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