Third World Network publishes special focus on tourism

The September / October 2015 issue of Third World Resurgence magazine, published by the Third World Network, is a special focus double issue on tourism.

The issue challenges the assumption that “expansion of the tourism industry is an economic panacea for poor countries – a passport to eradicating poverty, providing livelihoods for poor and marginalised communities.”

It contains the following articles:

• Tourism – a driver of inequality and displacement – Anita Pleumarom
• Tourism and the biosphere crisis: Provisions for inter-generational care –Alison M Johnston
• Rise of the aerotropolis – Rose Bridger
• Tourism for women’s rights? – Albertina Almeida
• Maasai fight eviction from Tanzanian community land by US-based ecotourism company – Susanna Nordlund
• The puputan struggle against the Benoa Bay reclamation project – Anton Muhajir
• Tourism, the extractive industry and social conflict in Peru – Rodrigo Ruiz Rubio
• Tourism and the consumption of Goa – Claude Alvares
• The occidentalisation of the Everest – Vaishna Roy
• The getthoisation of Palestine – tourism as a tool of oppression and resistance – Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
• The bitter irony of ‘1 billion tourists – 1 billion opportunities’

The digital edition of the magazine is available here (pdf).