Preface

About the Author

About the Technical Editor

List of Figures

PART 1 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPING TOURISM

Chapter 1 Understanding Tourism Development

Chapter 2 Towards a General Theory of Tourism Planning and Development The BIK System

Chapter 3 Prerequisites for sustainable Tourism

Chapter 4 Exmpleas of General and Special Interest Tourism

PART II PLANNING ISSUES FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 5 Market System and Planned Growth

Chapter 6 Practicing Sustainable Tourism Development

PART III PLANNING PROCESSES FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 7 Planning Cycles in Government-Assisted Tourism Development

Chapter 8 Tourism Development in Market Economic Systems

Chapter 9 Government Policies and Legislation for Tourism Development

Chapter 10 Financing Government and Private Sector Tourism Projects

PART IV TECHNIQUES FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPING TOURISM

Chapter 11 Surveying the Tourism Product

Chapter 12 Analyzing Tourism Economies and Tourism Products

Chapter 13 Planning Tourism at National, Regional, and Local Destination Levels

Chapter 14 Project Design,Permit and Construction

Chapter 15 Project Financing,Agreement,and Ownership

Chapter 16 Computer Simulation, Computer-Aided Design, and Geographic information Systems

Chapter 17 Managing,Planning and Marketing Tourism

The Technical Editor's Postscript:Progress in Recognizing the Importance of Reducing Poverty through Tourism

PART V HISTORIES AND CASE STUDIES OF TOURISM PLANNING

Bibliography

Index