Controversies in tourism

This book makes a contribution to the understanding of tourism controversies. Its purpose is to provide a platform for open debate and intellectual discourse with a variety of views on perceived controversies or manifest conflicts firstly within tourism (endogenous controversies), but also in the multidimensional contexts of environment and civil society (exogenous contexts). The focus of the book is on established controversies in tourism and new and emerging conflicts, dilemmas, paradoxes and disputes within tourism contexts.

1. Of Ethics, Leisure and Tourism: the 'Serious Fun of Doing Tourism' -- 2. A Common Tourism Policy for the European Union: A Historical Perspective -- 3. Authenticity and Commodification: the Selling of Mayan Culture in Mexico's Mayan Riviera -- 4. Authenticity versus Development: Tourism to the Hill Tribes of Thailand -- 5. Controversies in Medical Tourism -- 6. Ethical Issues in Trophy Hunting -- 7. Ecotourism: A Maturing Discourse with Some Established Controversy -- 8. Ethnic Panopticon: a Controversy in Aboriginal Tourism -- 9. Gaming in the USA: Historical Development, Controversies and Current Status -- 10. Golf Tourism: the Case of Cyprus -- 11. Residential Tourism or Lifestyle Migration: Social Problems Linked to the non-Definition of the Situation -- 12. Surrealist Pilgrims, Melting Clocks in Marble Halls: Dark Tourism for a Post-Modern World -- 13. The Golden Jubilee of Independence and Panafest in Ghana: "All that Glitters is Not Gold" -- 14. The Ideological Role of Intergovernmental Organizations on the Promotion of International Tourism -- 15. The Paradoxes of Tourism Encounters in the Mass Tourism Spaces of The Gambia -- 16. Tourism or Conservation? a Controversy i…