Mallorca and Tourism

History, Economy and Environment

By (author) R. J. Buswell

Publication date:

23 June 2011

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845411800

In the popular imagination, Mallorca is the archetypal mass tourism resort, one of the world’s pioneers of mass tourism, linking the resources of the Mediterranean to the supply of tourists from northern and western Europe. It is now attempting to better manage the ubiquitous transformational environmental and socio-economic impact of the industry. The book identifies and examines critically the major socio-economic and political forces that have played a significant part in the formation of the industry; the development of tourism as a business and efforts to diversify the tourism product as it move into the uncertainties of the 21st century.

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Mallorca's Tourism and its Origins
Chapter 2: Environmental Resources, Perceptions and Constraints for Tourism
Chapter 3: The Historical Development of the Tourism Industry from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Mid 1950s
Chapter 4: ‘When Majorca Was Spelled with a ‘J’: The First ‘Boom’ of the 1960s
Chapter 5: From Crisis to Crisis 1973-2010, with a Continuing Boom in Between!
Chapter 6: Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Chapter 7: Policy and Planning for Tourism
Chapter 8: Economy, Business and Politics
Chapter 9: New Markets and Diversification
Chapter 10: Future Trends

This is a well-written, accessible and readable text. It is authoritative without being over-jargoned and provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of tourism in Mallorca. It achieves an impressive synthesis of the detailed and the general and demonstrates a clear grasp of the relevant source material for such a study.