Contents List of Tables 9 List of Figures 11 List of Maps 12 Acknowledgements 13 1. Tourism Development Revisited: An Introduction by Sutheeshna Babu. S, Sitikantha Mishra and Bivraj Bhusan Parida 15 SECTION-A TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS, ISSUES AND PROCESS 2.Tourism as Discipline and Industry: Some Comments on the Progressing Debates by Sutheeshna Babu. S 33 3. Modern Tourism and Its Development in a Post-Modern Age by Richard Butler 54 4.Some Reflections on Tourism and Post-Colonialism by Peter M. Burns 64 5.Trends in Tourism: Spectres of New Displacements by Nina Rao 76 6. Tourism and the Informal Sector: Notes on the Case of Backpacker Tourism by Anders S0rensen and Sutheeshna Babu. S 88 SECTION-B TOURISM PRODUCTS, THE GAZE AND EXPERIENCES 7.Rural Tourism in Andalucia: Recent Evolution and Normative Regulation by Antonio Ferndndez-Morales and Maria Cruz Mayorga-Toledano 105 8. 'Mainland' and 'Entry' Islands: Distinctions in Island Tourism by Stephen A. Royle 120 9.Marketing National Parks Using Ecotourism as a Catalyst: Towards a Theory and Practice ' by Stephen Wearing 132 10.Globalising the Tourist Gaze by John Urry 150 11.Destinations as Experience Stages: A Systems View by Yeoryios Stamboulis 161 SECTION-C EMERGING DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS 12.Tourism Development and Its Emerging Paradigms: A Synthesis by Sutheeshna Babu. S 177 13.International Tourism and Developing Economies by Miguela M. Menu 198 14.Shifting Paradigms: The Convergence of Tourism, Conservation and Development by Sue Broad and Rochelle Spencer 214 15.Stagnation and Way-out: A Case Study of Tourism Development in China from the Perspective of New Institution Economics by Lingyun Zhang and Xiaoqiu Ma 227 16.Exploring Linkage between Tourism and Community Development: A Case Study of the Artisans in Rajasthan by Dripto Mukhopadhyay240 SECTION-D ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR TOURISM 17. Estimating the Economic Impacts of Tourism Shocks: A Paradigm Shift in Technique by Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth, Ray Spurr and Thiep Van Ho 259 18. Analysing China-based Hotel Websites by Rob Law and Catherine Cheung 273 19. Spatial Dimensions of Tourism in India: A Macro-level Perspective by Sutheeshna Babu. S 285 20.Holiday Attachment: The Construct and Its Measurement 306 Babu P. George SECTION-E CHANGING HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES 21.The Professionalisation of Tourism: Preparing the Way for the Portfolio Careerist in Australia by Kevin D. Lyons 331 22.The Good Guide: Identifying and Engendering Generic Skills in the Training of Tourist Guides by Michael F. Christie and Peter Mason 341 About the Editors and Contributors 351 Index 357