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The Politics of Tourism Development

Booms and Busts in Ireland

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Anne O’Brien

    1. Kairos Communications Ltd. and National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 3-15

    3. Capitalist Economies, Sectors, and States: Understanding Tourism

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 16-34

    4. Explaining Irish Development

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 35-55

    5. State Development and Regime Change

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 56-71

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Tourism, the Irish State, and Developmental Failures

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 75-96

    3. Tiger Growth: Tourism’s Roaring Trade 1987–2007

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 97-121

    4. Crisis in 2008

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 122-146

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Crisis: The Catalyst for Change

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 149-163

    3. Narrating Crisis in 1987 and Lessons Not Learned in 2008

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 164-176

    4. The Future of Irish Tourism and Conclusions

      • Anne O’Brien
      Pages 177-191

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 192-213
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About this book

Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Kairos Communications Ltd. and National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

    Anne O’Brien

About the author

ANNE O' BRIEN Co-ordinates Provision by Kairos Communications Ltd. of Broadcast Production modules for the Centre for Media Studies at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She has produced a number of documentaries for Irish national broadcasters RTE and TG4.

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