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"David Harrison reflects on the role of tourism in development and its conflict with culture, tradition and the need for sustainability. The book deliberates David's research from the past 30 years, which looks at the impacts of tourism on societies emerging from Western colonialism and societies previously part of the Soviet system"--
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David Harrison has been Professor of Tourism at Middlesex University since 2014. Before then, he was Professor of Tourism at the University of the South Pacific (1996-1998 and 2008 to 2014) and similarly at London Metropolitan University (1998-2008). Since 1987, his research has concentrated on tourism in deveioping societies. He is author of
The Sociology of Modernisation and Development, (Routledge, 1988), and editor of numerous texts on tourism, including:
Tourism and the Less Developed Countries, (Belhaven,1992).
Pacific Island Tourism (Cognizant 2003),
The Politics of World Heritage (with Michael Hitchcock, Channel View, 2005),
Tourism and the Less Developed World, (CABI, 2001). More recently, he has edited
Tourism in Pacific Islands (with Stephen Pratt, Routledge, 2015) and, with Richard Sharpley,
Mass Tourism in a Small World (CABI, 2017).
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David Harrison reflects on the role of tourism in development and its conflict with culture, tradition and the need for sustainability. The book deliberates David's research from the past 30 years, which looks at the impacts of tourism on societies emerging from Western colonialism and societies previously part of the Soviet system.
