Planning And Developing Tourism: Alleviating Poverty Through Sustainable Tourism a Textbook And Operating Manual for Students And Professionals of Tourism

by Bulent I. Kastarlak

?Planning and Developing Tourism? is a textbook for academicians and students and a reference manual for government officials and practicing professionals for describing in technical detail how to survey, analyze, plan and develop tourism at national, regional and local destination levels. The book presents a computerized research and planning method developed by the author and named by him the BIK System. The system was first presented in 1970 in the USA and has since been expanded to cover the entire tourism sector of the economy by including more than 230 types of tourism establishments and businesses selected from North American Industrial Classification System. The book describes tourism from its historical origins to this day and examines its behavioral, motivational, cultural, environmental, physical and economic dimensions. It prescribes planning methods for ensuring sustainable tourism development in developing regions of the world.

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First published March 1, 2006