By January 2015 the world‎'‎s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world‎'‎s population‎.‎ It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in‎-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher‎,‎ while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct‎.‎ So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality between the rich and poor‎?‎ Are ever‎-expanding tourism markets a smoke‎-free‎,‎ socioculturally sensitive form of human industrialisation‎?‎ Is alternative tourism really a credible lever for reducing global inequality and eliminating poverty‎?‎ Tourism and Sustainability critically explores the most significant universal geopolitical norms of the last half century ‎- development‎,‎ globalisation and sustainability ‎- and through the lens of new forms of tourism demonstrates how we can better get to grips with the rapidly changing new global order‎.‎ The fourth edition has been extensively revised and updated‎,‎ and benefits from the addition of new material on climate change and tourism‎.‎Drawing on a range of examples from across the Third World‎,‎ Mowforth and Munt expertly illustrate the social‎,‎ economic and environmental conditions that continue to affect the tourism industry‎.‎ With the first edition hailed by Geoffrey Wall as ‎'‎one of the most significant books produced on tourism [since the turn of the millennium]‎'‎‎,‎ Tourism and Sustainability remains the essential resource for students of human geography‎,‎ environmental sciences and studies‎,‎ politics‎,‎ development studies‎,‎ anthropology and business studies as well as tourism itself‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Martin Mowforth‎,‎ Ian Munt
• Puplisher‎:‎ Routledge
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781138013261