Globalization of Tourism and Third World Tourism Development——A Political Economy Perspective

作     者：ZHAO Weibing LI Xingqun 

作者机构：Tourism Management Area Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Department of Tourism Management School of Business Guangxi University Nanning 530004 China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Geographical Science》 (中国地理科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2006年第16卷第3期

页      面：203-210页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 120203[管理学-旅游管理] 02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 03[法学] 0302[法学-政治学] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 020206[经济学-国际贸易学] 030206[法学-国际政治] 020202[经济学-区域经济学] 

主　　题：globalization political economy tourism development Third World 

摘      要：Globalization, which is characterized by the escalating mobility of capital, people, ideas and information on a universal scale, has become a sweeping theme in the contemporary world. Tourism and its associated economic activities are evidently not immune to such a wider context of the world economy. In the past one or two decades, a stable increase has been witnessed in international tourist flows, inter-regional and inter-organizational alliances, and foreign direct investment. These trends are especially prevalent in the developing world, largely because of their pristine nature, di- verse culture, inexpensive goods and services, cheap labours, and other resources. However, it has been cautioned by some scholars, especially those from the Third World countries, that tourism is an industry run by and for the rich, more powerful nations and their corresponding multinational corporations. This article, from the perspective of political economy, supplemented with views from development studies, made a normative analysis on the impacts of the glob- alization of tourism on the Third World destination countries. Specifically, these impacts have been detailed in terms of economic, sociocultural, and ecological domains. It was demonstrated that without appropriate planning and manage- ment, the costs of Third World tourism development may accrue to the extent that its benefits are burned out. To avoid this happening, some suggestions have been made.