Tourism and sustainability : development globalisation and new tourism in the third world Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 Introduction, 2 - Globalization, sustainability, development, 3 - Power and tourism, 4 - Tourism and sustainability, 5 - A new class of tourist:trendies on the trail, 6 - Socio-environmental organisations: where shall we save next, 7 - The industry: lies , damned lies and sustainability, 8 - 'Hosts' and destinations: for what we are about to receive....9 - Cities and tourism: guess who's coming to town?, 10 - Governance, governments and tourism: selling the Third World, 11 - New tourism and the poor: making poverty history?

Tourism and Sustainability critically explores the most significant universal geopolitical norms of the last half century – development, globalization and sustainability – and through the lens of new forms of tourism demonstrates how we can better get to grips with the rapidly changing new global order. The fourth edition has been extensively revised and updated, and benefits from the addition of new material on climate change and tourism.


Drawing on a range of examples from across the Third World, Mowforth and Munt expertly illustrate the social, economic and environmental conditions that continue to affect the tourism industry. With the first edition hailed by Geoffrey Wall as ‘one of the most significant books produced on tourism [since the turn of the millennium]’, Tourism and Sustainability remains the essential resource for students of human geography, environmental sciences and studies, politics, development studies, anthropology and business studies as well as tourism itself.