A multifactor tourism typology of countries of the world having a structural-functional character has been developed. It provides insight into the typological features of the global spatial structure ...of international tourism, reflecting the intensity of international tourism flows, their geography, the importance of the tourism industry for the national economy as well as the general attributes of territorial organization of international tourism, and the dynamics of its development. Five main types of touristic types of countries have been identified. The following indicators were used for characterization of the countries and their comparison: the size of the territory, and the population size; the general level of socioeconomic development; the level and character of development of international tourism; the characteristic properties of touristic demand; the orientedness of tourism flows; characteristics of touristic offer; the degree of influence of international tourism on the national economy; characteristics of the state policy in the sphere of tourism, and touristic specialization. The first type includes the economically highly developed countries with mature national systems of international tourism forming the center of the world’s touristic space. The second type is represented by countries belonging to the semi-periphery of the world’s touristic space with an intensely forming state-supported polyfunctional system of international tourism. The third type includes moderately developed countries of the semi-periphery of the world’s touristic space with a polyfunctional system of international tourism in the stage of transformation and formation of a civilized travel market. The fourth type comprises small island states of the Caribbean Basin which belong to the semi-periphery and, in part, to the “advanced” periphery of the world’s touristic space. The fifth type combines developing countries belonging to the periphery of the world’s touristic space, with a weakly developed market of international tourism.
Research on recreation, tourism and sport, conducted by geographers in North America (US and Canada) from 1988 to 1998 was compiled and the resulting bibliography can be found on the WWW at: ...<http://www.geog.nau.edu/tg/ contents/vln4refs.html/>. The context of North American geography is one of considerable diversity, though somewhat insular in subject matter. In addition to many general introductory and overview books and articles, much of the focus of recreation and tourism geographic research in North America has been applied rather than theoretical. This has been changing in the 1990s as the volume of research, especially on tourism topics, has increased considerably and more authors are publishing in leading general geography journals.
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Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. Haleh Afshar, ed.
The Birth of the National Park Service. The Founding Years 1913–33. Horace M. Albright
Theatres of ...Accumulation: Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization. Warwick Armstrong and T.G. McGee.
New Tools for Social Scientists, Advances and Applications in Research Methods. William D. Berry and Michael S. Lewis‐Beck, eds.
Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century. Raymond F. Betts.
Geography of Sugar Cane. Helmut Blume.
The Mines of Neptune: Minerals and Metals from the Sea. Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
Geographical Dimensions of Energy. F.J. Calzonetti and B.D. Solomon, eds.
Statistical Methods for Geographers. W. A. V. Clark and P. L. Hosking.
In The Wake of Columbus, Islands and Controversy. John DeVorsey, Jr., and John Parker, eds.
Housing, States and Localities. Peter Dickens, Simon Duncan, Mark Goodwin and Fred Gray.
Physician Location and Specialty Choice. Richard L. Ernst and Donald E. Yett.
Practical Ecology for Geography and Biology: Survey, Mapping, and Data Analysis. D.D. Gilbertson, M. Kentand F.B. Pyatt
Large Scale Water Transfers: Emerging Environmental and Social Experiences. Genady N. Golubev and Asit K. Biswas, eds.
The Nature of the Environment. Andrew Goudie.
Planning for Population Change. W.T.S. Gould and R. Lawton.
The Niger and its Neighbors: Environmental History and Hydrobiology. Human Use and Health Hazards of the Major West African Rivers. A.T. Grove, ed.
Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow. Dorothy K. Hall and Jaroslav Martinec.
Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture. Sam Bowers Hilliard.
Galilee Divided; The Israel‐Lebanon Frontier, 1916‐1984. Frederic C. Hor.
Plains Country Towns. John C. Hudson.
Agricultural Geography: A Social and Economic Analysis. Brian W. Ilbery.
Industry in the 1980s: Structural Change and Interdependence. U.N. Industrial Development Organization.
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Kenneth T. Jackson.
The Industrial Geography of Italy. Russell King.
Studies in Linguistic Geography: The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland. John M. Kirk, Stewart Sanderson, J.D.A. Widdowson, eds.
Tourism: A Community Approach. Peter E. Murphy.
Cities and Services: The Geography of Collective Consumption. Steven Pinch.
An Historical Geography of Europe 1800–1914. Norman J. G. Pounds.
An Introduction to Human Ecology Research on Agricultural Systems in Southeast Asia. A. Terry Rambo and Percy E. Sajise, eds.
Discovering Past Landscapes. Michael Reed, ed.
Managing the Ocean: Resources, Research, Law. Jacques G. Richardson, ed.
Carta fitosociologica de la transecta botanica de la Patagonia Austral. F.A. Roig, Juan Anchorema, Orlando Dollenz, A.M. Faggiand Eduardo Mandez
Intermetropolitan Migration in Canada: Changing Determinants over Three Decades. R. Paul Shaw.
Chinese Cities—The Growth of the Metropolis since 1949. Victor F. Sit, ed.
Urbanization in the World‐Economy. Michael Timberlake, ed.
The Al Business: Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence. Patrick H. Winston and Karen A. Prendergast, eds.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Professional Geographer,
19/5/1/, Letnik:
39, Številka:
2
Book Review
Recenzirano
Book Reviewed in this article:
Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. Haleh Afshar, ed.
The Birth of the National Park Service. The Founding Years 1913-33. Horace M. Albright
Theatres of ...Accumulation: Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization. Warwick Armstrong and T.G. McGee.
New Tools for Social Scientists, Advances and Applications in Research Methods. William D. Berry and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, eds.
Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century. Raymond F. Betts.
Geography of Sugar Cane. Helmut Blume.
The Mines of Neptune: Minerals and Metals from the Sea. Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
Geographical Dimensions of Energy. F.J. Calzonetti and B.D. Solomon, eds.
Statistical Methods for Geographers. W. A. V. Clark and P. L. Hosking.
In The Wake of Columbus, Islands and Controversy. John DeVorsey, Jr., and John Parker, eds.
Housing, States and Localities. Peter Dickens, Simon Duncan, Mark Goodwin and Fred Gray.
Physician Location and Specialty Choice. Richard L. Ernst and Donald E. Yett.
Practical Ecology for Geography and Biology: Survey, Mapping, and Data Analysis. D.D. Gilbertson, M. Kentand F.B. Pyatt
Large Scale Water Transfers: Emerging Environmental and Social Experiences. Genady N. Golubev and Asit K. Biswas, eds.
The Nature of the Environment. Andrew Goudie.
Planning for Population Change. W.T.S. Gould and R. Lawton.
The Niger and its Neighbors: Environmental History and Hydrobiology. Human Use and Health Hazards of the Major West African Rivers. A.T. Grove, ed.
Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow. Dorothy K. Hall and Jaroslav Martinec.
Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture. Sam Bowers Hilliard.
Galilee Divided; The Israel-Lebanon Frontier, 1916-1984. Frederic C. Hor.
Plains Country Towns. John C. Hudson.
Agricultural Geography: A Social and Economic Analysis. Brian W. Ilbery.
Industry in the 1980s: Structural Change and Interdependence. U.N. Industrial Development Organization.
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Kenneth T. Jackson.
The Industrial Geography of Italy. Russell King.
Studies in Linguistic Geography: The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland. John M. Kirk, Stewart Sanderson, J.D.A. Widdowson, eds.
Tourism: A Community Approach. Peter E. Murphy.
Cities and Services: The Geography of Collective Consumption. Steven Pinch.
An Historical Geography of Europe 1800-1914. Norman J. G. Pounds.
An Introduction to Human Ecology Research on Agricultural Systems in Southeast Asia. A. Terry Rambo and Percy E. Sajise, eds.
Discovering Past Landscapes. Michael Reed, ed.
Managing the Ocean: Resources, Research, Law. Jacques G. Richardson, ed.
Carta fitosociologica de la transecta botanica de la Patagonia Austral. F.A. Roig, Juan Anchorema, Orlando Dollenz, A.M. Faggiand Eduardo Mandez
Intermetropolitan Migration in Canada: Changing Determinants over Three Decades. R. Paul Shaw.
Chinese Cities-The Growth of the Metropolis since 1949. Victor F. Sit, ed.
Urbanization in the World-Economy. Michael Timberlake, ed.
The Al Business: Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence. Patrick H. Winston and Karen A. Prendergast, eds.
