Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change

Dr Donald Macleod is a Research Fellow and Director of Crichton Tourism Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. He has a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and has taught at the University of London and Macalester College in the USA. Dr Macleod has researched in the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and Scotland on issues concerning tourism, globalisation, development, cultural change and identity. He has published widely including the books Niche Tourism in Question (editor) and Tourists and Tourism (co-editor).

• PART ONE: THE ISSUES, THE COMMUNITY AND THE TOURISTS 1. Tourism, Globalization and Cultural Change2. Valle Gran Rey: A Changing Destination3. The Tourists: Types and Motivation PART TWO: THE INFLUENCE OF TOURISM 4. Work and Property5. Power and Conflict6. Social Identity7. Family and Belief8. The Ability of Tourism to Change Culture References /Index

Donald Macleod’s Tourism, globalization and cultural change is a solid ethnography, based on research spanning a dozen years. The study contains much that is new and interesting.