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Excellent coverage of topics including chapters on trends, perspectives and practice, Indigenous tourism, local tourism, and protected areas.
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Case studies conclude each chapter to illustrate the application of concepts, theories, models, principles and processes.
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A wealth of end of chapter material including key terms, questions and exercises to enhance scholarly review of the content of each chapter.
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Two practical features in each chapter illustrate and reinforce chapter content:
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Planning in Practice: presents how a tourism issue has been implemented and/or managed. Topics include public interest in Wilson's Promontory National Park, regional amalgamations in Western Australia, the managing dolphin feeding at Tin Can Bay, and the United Nations convention on the Law of the Sea.
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Tourism Planning Breakthrough: presents an example of a cutting edge tourism plan or process. Topics include implementing the reef tax, the Tourism Impact Model, coral cay conservation, and Indigenous tourism in protected areas.