内容简介：
Tourism: Blight or Blessing? provides a balanced assessment of the effects of tourism on 20th century life and will evaluate its significance in international relations. It is the first to examine the place of tourism in the global political economy, analyzing both how far it is shaped by the political-economic system and its own role in shaping that system. Tourism needs to be considered within its wider context, as a factor of international relations, a facet of the global economic order and this is what Tourism: Blight or Blessing seeks to achieve.