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Author O'Brien, Anne

Title The Politics of Tourism Development : Booms and Busts in Ireland
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Part I; 1 Introduction; 2 Capitalist Economies, Sectors, and States: Understanding Tourism; 3 Explaining Irish Development; 4 State Development and Regime Change; Part II; 5 Tourism, the Irish State, and Developmental Failures; 6 Tiger Growth: Tourism's Roaring Trade 1987-2007; 7 Crisis in 2008; Part III; 8 Crisis: The Catalyst for Change; 9 Narrating Crisis in 1987 and Lessons Not Learned in 2008; 10 The Future of Irish Tourism and Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism
Notes Print version record
Subject Tourism -- Government policy -- Ireland
Tourism -- Ireland
Tourism industry -- Ireland.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
Travel and Tourism.
Tourism
Tourism -- Government policy
Ireland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230348943
0230348947