Managing Tourism Growth: Issues and Applications

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Summary: A very good overview, well-written and well structured book.
Review: The cases studied are very updated and they analyze several situation at many countries(on unusual economics situations).

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Summary: The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process
Review: The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process:

This book talk about the tourism growth to the perspective of sustanaible development, but give the global VISION. This VISION is very usefull because is based on System General Theory, and plus to this logic structure the COLABORATIVE activities establishing dynamic relationship between the components of Industry Tourism-System, the core of this book is the Community Participation towards to Common-Pool Resuorces Paradigm,in all cases relationated to tourism, for instance: in development, in perception , in behavior , and so on. For other hand, the management process is presented like the vehicule to perform any activitie or program or project in this study-object. My atention for this book was determine by the "system-process of management" , structured by a set of administrative conceptual focus: overall RESILIENCY and sustainability, efficiency and equity too. And in the Management is very important understand in really dimension the Strategies Process. So on..

I believe that this book is very usefull to create an advanced VISION of the component of Tourism Industry and the Management Process towards Sustainable Development. The book require previous studies about Management, Administrative Science, System Theory, System Analysis and Game Theory.

Thanks!.

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Summary: Read this book before arguing over tourism regulation.
Review: This survey is an essential resource for tourism supporters, opponents, regulators, and anyone else wants to understand what can happen and what can be done when the rest of the world finds out what a nice place you have.

It's basically a casebook, with a sturdy analytical framework to help you compare the cases. The authors describe regulatory systems for managing community tourism resources to control quality, to control quantity, to enhance the market, or some combination of these. Examples are provided from about 30 communities in the U.S. and around the world.

The book includes a particularly valuable collection of notes that should help readers track down further resources and contacts.

I'm a local government staffer for a city of 30,000 that has seen its tourism traffic swell to 700,000 people per summer, with daily loads up to 10,000. This book provides some comfort in knowing that we are not alone in this remarkable experience, and we can learn from what others have tried.

The book suffers somewhat from mediocre typography, but the layout is clean, the maps are helpful, and there's a sprinkling of photographs to give you a feel for some of the places under discussion. You may not need a copy for each of your planning commissioners, but you will probably want one or two to loan out and one to keep in your desk.