Overbooked The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

Name: Overbooked The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
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ISBN: 9781439160992

ISBN-10: 1439160996

ISBN-13: 9781439160992

Edition: 2013

Authors: Elizabeth Becker

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The largest global business in the world today is tourism. Employing one out of twelve people in the world and producing $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy, it is the main source of income for many countries.Elizabeth Becker describes the dimensions of this industry and its huge effect on the world economy, the environment, and our culture.Becker travels the world to offer lively portraits of far-off places: France invented the tour and is still the leader of the travel business; Venice is dying of over-tourism.In Cambodia, Becker watches tourists crawl over the decaying temples of Angkor, jeopardizing precious cultural sites.Costa Rica has abandoned raising cattle for American…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Introduction



The Business



Tourism Becomes an Industry



Cultural Tourism: France, Venice and Cambodia



Les Vacances



Postcard from Venice



Getting It Wrong



Consumer Tourism: Cruises and Dubai



Cruising: Destination Nowhere



Desert Fantasies



Nature Tourism: Zambia, Costa Rica and Sri Lanka



Safari



Becoming Green



Postcard from Sri Lanka: War, Revolution, Tourism



The New Giant China



Golden Weeks



The Chinese Market



The Old Giant USA



America the Exceptional


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index