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Article: Tourism and National Parks: Issues and Implications.
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- Environments
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Richard W. Butler & Stephen W. Boyd, eds. 2000. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. ISBN 0-471-98894-4 (hc) $142.50 (Cdn.). 342 pp.
Although it is an edited volume, Tourism and National Parks is a consistently strong, wide-ranging yet coherent, volume. The book's focus is tourism and national parks and the relationship between these elements' (p. 7). This book is not the product of a conference, but rather of a commissioning of specific chapters from selected authors based on a conceptual framework for tourism and national parks. The conceptual framework has four parts (Historical Context, Settings for Tourism, Issues and Responses, Future Context) which are ...