Tourism and Cultural Development

Contents: Preface. 1. The culture brokers. 2. Where Asia Wore a Smile: lessons of Philippine tourism development. 3. Putting "Culture" into sustainable tourism. 4. The legend of Robin Hood: myth, inauthenticity, and tourism development in Nottingham, England. 5. European Union Cross-Border Cooperation. 6. Tourism issues of the 21 century. 7. From Kitty Hawk to the ISS Hilton. 8. Hostility and hospitality: war and terrorism. 9. Commodification of culture and tourism. 10. Instructional tourism. 11. Cultural and instructional tourism. 12. Instructional tourism for adults. Index.

"Flow of people from one place to another leads to flow of ideas, customs, traditions, and values also and this leads to change in many ways among societies and civilizations.

Tourism is a good source of learning from various religious places, historical buildings and forts, mosques, temples, besides hydroelectric projects, dams and urban centres.

Tourism leads to cultural development in many ways while as for students from educational institutions it is directly responsible for education in the national integration and social awareness for adults, it is helpful in bringing changes in their professions and social behaviour.

This book tries to explore the instructional value of tourism and tries to assess the influence on the people of the ideas, values, customs and habits of the developing world. The fact that the developing countries are targets of the people from the Western world, because of the cheap money of the developing world and it is very convenient and affordable for the western man to visit developing countries.

In fact tourism and cultural developments are interdependent terms and the impact of tourism on cultural development is tremendous. Sports events, cultural gatherings, music festivals, are nowadays very popular.

The book will be found to be of immense value to the teaching community and the general public alike." (jacket)