Tourism in Frontier Areas

About this book

In this timely new collection of essays, an excellent roster of contributors bring new insight to a wide spectrum of topics related to tourism in frontier areas. The book focuses on international case studies as it discusses the economic feasibility of frontier tourist development, the tourist development of rural and urban settings, and the expansion of tourism to remote borderlands. The contributors highlight the potential, as well as the environmental, economic, bureaucratic, and cultural difficulties of peripheral tourism. This innovative and thought-provoking approach – with its wealth of detail – makes Tourism in Frontier Areas essential reading for scholars in tourist development, regional development, and economic geography.

Contents

Part 1. Issues and Approaches
Chapter 1. The Development of Tourism in Frontier Regions: Issues and Approaches
Chapter 2. Time Dimension and Tourism Development in Peripheral Areas
Chapter 3. Sustainable Tourism Development in South Africa: From Policy to Delivery

Part 2. Economic Aspects of Tourism in Frontier Areas
Chapter 4. The Economic Impact of Tourism in Central and Outlying Regions of Israel: A Multiregional Input-Output Model
Chapter 5. Legalization of Casino Gambling in a Frontier Region: The Israeli Experience
Chapter 6. Gambling on the Border: Casinos, Tourism Development and the Prisoners' Dilemma

Part 3. Tourism Frontiers in Rural Areas
Chapter 7. The Training Needs of Small Rural Tourism Operators in Frontier Regions
Chapter 8. Small Tourism Ventures in Peripheral Areas: The Impact of Environmental Factors on Performance
Chapter 9. Agricultural Land in Frontier Areas: Conflict Between Urban Development and Tourism and Recreation Activities

Part 4. Tourism Frontiers in Urban Areas
Chapter 10. Tourism Development and Environmental Implications for the Indian Frontier Region: A Study of Himachal Himalaya
Chapter 11. Tourism Development in a Desert Frontier Town
Chapter 12. Tourism Infrastructure in Frontier Regions: An Analytical Framework of the Public, Social, and Political Context

Part 5. Tourism Frontiers in Borderlands
Chapter 13. Tourism in Borderlands: Competition, Complementarity, and Cross-Frontier Cooperation
Chapter 14. Tourism and Culture Clash in Indian Country
Chapter 15. The Changing Cultural Geography of the Frontier: National Parks and Wilderness as Frontier Remnant

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Biography

Shaul Krakover is an Associate Professor of Geography at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author and editor of a number of books including Frontiers in Regional Development (1996 with Yehuda Gradus and Harvey Lithwick). Yehuda Gradus is a Professor of Geography and Regional Planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.