Controversies in tourism / edited by Omar Moufakkir and Peter M. Burns

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of ethics, leisure and tourism: the 'serous fun of doing tourism' /O. Moufakkir -- A common tourism policy for the European Union: a historical perspective ?S. Mehter Aykin -- Authenticity and commodification: the selling of Mayan culture in Mexico's Mayan Riviera /A.E. Papanicolaou -- Authnticity versus development: tourism to the hill tribes of Thailand /M. Novelli and A. Tisch-Rottensteiner -- Controversies in medical tourism /D.G. Vequist IV, M. Guiry and B. Ipock -- Ethical issues in trophy hunting /J. Dobson -- Ecotourism: a maturing discourse with some established controversy /S.W. Boyd -- Ethnic panopticon: a controversy in aboriginal tourism and current status /O. Moufakkir and D.F. Holecek -- Golf tourism: the case of Cyprus /N. Boukas, G. Boustras and A. Sinka -- Residential tourism of lifestyle migration: social problems linked to the non-definition of the situation /R. Huete and A. Mantecon -- Surrealist pilgrims, melting clocks in marble halls: dark tourism for a postmodern world /D. Craig and C. Thompson -- The golden jubilee of independence and panafest in Ghana: 'all that glitters is not gold" /E. Addo -- The ideological role of intergovernmental organizations in the promotion of international tourism /J. Ferraz -- The paradoxes of tourism encounters in the mass tourism spaces of the Gambia /H. Pattison -- Tourism or conservation? A controversy in Chitwan National Park, Nepal /K. Bhandari -- Volunteer tourism: commodified trend or new phenomenon? /A.M. Benson and S. Wearing