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February 14, 2005

Tourism can be a risky investment

“Tourism has become so popular a tool for economic development that we cannot help but wonder if there will be enough tourists to fill all the places that have been made available. The answer is clearly that there are not enough tourists to go around. This makes tourism development a highly competitive industry and a risky investment. There are important social and cultural implications associated with this competition. In the lingo of the industry, tourism

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Related Posts: World Tourism Day 2007 and sustainable tourism, Dean MacCannell on the exploitative side of commercial tourism, Theron Nunez on how host communities bend to accommodate tourism

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