Tourism & Development

This is a new study group set up in October 2003 with the aim of bringing together tourism academics and practitioners from as wide a geographical and disciplinary base as possible.

Members of the group are likely to be linked primarily by a common interest in the extent to which tourism promotes or hinders ‘development’, either in less developed countries and/or less developed regions of more developed countries.

Objectives of the group include regular exchange of views and outputs on matters of common concern, periodic workshops and conferences at which issues are discussed, and wide dissemination of the results of these activities.

To join the group, please fill in an application form with your details and research interests and email it to David Harrison (details below).

Resources

The following links and papers are selected by the group convenor as relevant and/or topical resources that may be of interest to members:

• Bob Mckercher, Sustainable tourism development: Guiding principles for planning and management (pdf)
• Steve Brown, Funealii Lumaava Sooaemalelagi and Ian Osborn, The Green Turtle Tour project: A successful approach to aiding natural resource management in Samoa (pdf)
• David Harrison, Working with the tourism industry: A case study from Fiji (pdf)

Convenor

David Harrison

Email: d.harrison@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7133 3037
Fax: 020 7753 5051
Post: IICTD, L