Tourism and Economic Development

Introduction: Tourism and Uneven Economic Development (A. Williams & G. Shaw). Western European Tourism in Perspective (G. Shaw & A. Williams). Spain: From the Phenomenon of Mass Tourism to the Search for a More Diversified Model (M. Valenzuela). Italy: Diversified Tourism (R. King & A. Montanari). Greece: Hesitant Policy and Uneven Tourism Development in the 1990s (L. Leontidou). Portugal: Market Segmentation and Economic Development (J. Lewis & A. Williams). Switzerland: Structural Change within Stability (A. Gilg). Austria: Contrasting Tourist Seasons and Contrasting Regions (F. Zimmermann). The United Kingdom: Market Trends and Policy Responses (G. Shaw, et al.). Republic of Ireland: An Expanding Tourism Sector (D. Gillmor). France: Tourism Comes of Age (J. Tuppen). Germany: Still a Growing International Deficit?(P. Schnell). Tourism in The Netherlands: Resource Development, Regional Impacts and Issues (D. Pinder). Scandinavia: Challenging Nature (T. Andersson & M. Huse). Central and Eastern Europe: Tourism, Development and Transformation (D. Hall). Tourism Policies in a Changing Economic Environment (A. Williams & G. Shaw). Bibliography. Index.

Allan M. Williams is Professor of Human Geography and European Studies Centre at Exeter University. His research interests include European Studies, Southern and Central European development and the economic evaluation of tourism. He is the author of The European Community: The Contradictors of Integration (1994), co--author of Critical Issues in Tourism (1994) and co--editor of European Tourism: Regions, Spaces and Restructuring (1995). Gareth Shaw is a Reader in Geography at the University of Exeter. His research includes work on marketing, urban and historical geography, and tourism. He is the co--author of Critical Issues in Tourism (1994), co--editor of The Rise and Fall of British Coastal Resorts (1997) and co--Director of the Tourism Research Group.