Tourism and Sustainability

Reviews / Votes

Comments on the fourth edition:

"This book meets the continuing need for a clear-eyed, critical look at the global tourism industry and its sometimes uncomfortable relationship with ongoing problems of uneven development and inequality, especially in the less developed world. Mowforth and Munt write incisively of complex matters, yet their work has a real humanity at its core. This new edition will be a key resource for another generation of students and researchers."

Dr Mark Hampton, Reader in Tourism Management, University of Kent

Commonly associated with lightness and frivolity, with sand beaches and holidays, the authors fully succeed in their goal of repositioning tourism as a serious and important discipline within political science and development. In this fourth edition Mowforth and Munt masterfully accomplish what seemed impossible: they deepen further the enquiry, updating throughout with new events and case studies, and adding three new chapters bridging the links between tourism and poverty, human security, migration, terrorism and urbanisation. Never before has an analysis been so far-reaching, so present-to-day, so perceptive. An essential volume for students and academics across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in understanding our contemporary world through the powerful lens that tourism offers.

Professor Andrea Sousa Dantas, Department of Tourism, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

In short, this fourth edition updates the states of matter and analysis of the debates raised in the past, and introduces new issues that increasingly abundant academic literature has generated in recent years. It does so by staying away from the conformist or slightly reformist visions, as already mentioned, they are dominant. Thanks to all this, it remains a necessary reference text, essential to understand the development of the tourism phenomenon (especially in countries of the global South) and to meet the academic analysis done about it.

Jordi Gascon, Universitat de Barcelona & Foro de Turismo Responsable

Reviews on previous editions of Tourism and Sustainability:

'This book should be compulsory reading for all those engaged in tourism research.' - Erlet Cater, In Focus, Tourism Concern




'...one of the most significant books produced on tourism in the past few years.'

- Geoffrey Wall, Annals of Tourism Research
'A valuable and overdue contribution to a multi-disciplinary area. This book meets the challenge to say something clear and interesting in a quicksand of ambiguities.'

- Professor John Lea, University of Sydney
'Informative, stimulating, and provocative, the book deserves to be read by a wide audience ... It is absolutely essential reading for all those serious scholars of tourism studies wishing to appreciate "the bigger picture".'

- Brian Wheeller, Annals of Tourism Research
'...the book is quite simply one of the most important theoretical contributions to the growing subdiscipline of tourism geography and is likely to be a mainstay for many years to come.'

- Keith Debbage, Annals of the Association of American Geographers
'...a far-reaching, timely and quite penetrating critique of some of the forms of tourism that have emerged as a direct response to the clarion call for sustainable tourism development'

- Michael Parnwell, Journal of Development Studies