Atlas of travel and tourism development /

Shackley, Myra L.

Atlas of travel and tourism development / Myra Shackley. - Amsterdam : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, c2006. - xii, 194 p. : col. ill., col. maps 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index.

2. maps that chart the development of tourism 3. explanation of the growth of tourism destinations and trends in a geographic and historic global context. The text explores how the development of tourism destinations is related to history on a regional basis. It looks at the roots of human tourism and how destination awareness has changed, from fourth century BC guidebooks to the wealth of information available of today's travellers. Facilitates journey around the world from the forum in Rome, to Uluru in Asutralia, Westminster Abbey in London and the Pyramid in Giza. Provides: 1. aunique pictorial history of global travel and exploration

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Economic development.
Tourism.

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