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New CENTOPS book: Controversies in Tourism

Published 10 January 2012

A year long collaboration between Professor Peter Burns, Director of the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS) at the School of Service Management and Dr Omar Moufakkir of Stenden University (Netherlands) has resulted in a new book titled Controversies in Tourism, launched this month by CABI Publishing.

The main premise of the book is that tourism impacts on locations in many ways - socially, environmentally, culturally, and economically. The authors examine some well established controversies in tourism and some newly emerging controversial aspects associated with tourism as an activity and a business. Controversies involving clashes between visitors and host communities, the rights and wrongs of eco-tourism, the impacts of mega-events, the legitimacy of dark tourism, and the costs and benefits of medical and wildlife tourism are assessed.

The book is an interesting and thought provoking read and is ideal for tourism students, researchers and academics.

To find out more about Controversies in Tourism visit http://bookshop.cabi.org/?page=2633&pid=2442&site=191

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Edited by Professor Peter Burns, Director of the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS) at the School of Service Management and Dr Omar Moufakkir of Stenden University (Netherlands)