Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry

Keith G. Debbage, Dimitri Ioannides

• 1. Introduction: Exploring the Economic Geography-Tourism Nexus PART A: CONCEPTUAL AND DEFINITIONAL ISSUES: BARRIERS TO THEORY 2. The Tourist Industry and Economic Geography: Missed Opportunities, 3. Tourism as an Industry: Debates and Concepts, 4. The Tourism Production System and the Logic of Industrial Classification, Part B: THE DEMAND SIDE 5. The Determinants of Tourism Demand: A Theoretical Perspective PART C: NEO-FORDISM and FLEXIBILITY: A SECTORAL APPROACH 6. Neo-Fordism and Flexible Specilization in the Travel Industry: Dissecting the Polyglot, 7. Distribution Technologies and Destination Development: Myths and Realities, 8. Tour Operators: The Gatekeepers of Tourism, 9. The Airline Industry and Tourism, 10. Continuity and Change in the Hotel Industry: Some Evidence from Montreal PART D: GLOBAL-LOCAL NEXUS:PLACE COMMODIFICATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LABOUR 11. The Institutional Setting -Tourism and the State, 12. Tourism and Economic Development Policy: The Case of US Cities, 13. Entrepreneurship, Small Business Culture and Tourism Development, 14. Tourism in the Third Italy: Labor and Social-Business Networks, PART E: CYCLES AND INNOVATIONS 15. Economic Business Cycles and the Tourism Cycle Concept, CONCLUSION 16. Conclusion: Synthesis and New Directions

"This book is to be highly commended for the fact that it not only informs but stimulates. It will be surprising if it does not inspire a wide range of research by geographers in general, and economic geographers in particular, into one of the most overreaching and dynamic forms of economic activity: the major face and force of contemporary tourism" Erlet Cater, University of Reading; Information Technology and Tourism Vol 2 1999