This book provides a wide-ranging inquiry into the particular manifestations of different variants of neoliberalism, highlighting its uneven geographical development and the changing dynamics of neoliberal policies in order to explain and evaluate the effects of neoliberal processes on tourism. Aiming to initiate debates about the connections betwe

Jan Mosedale is Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Tourism and Leisure of the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, Switzerland.

1. Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Tourism: Projects, Discourses and Practices

Jan Mosedale

2. Contingent Neoliberalism and Urban Tourism in the United States

Dimitri Ioannides and Evangelia Petridou

3. Mega-events as Neoliberal Projects: 'realistic if we want Dunedin to prosper' or 'the biggest civic disgrace ... in living memory'?

C. Michael Hall and Sandra Wilson

4. The Changing Role of the State: Neoliberalism and Regional Tourism Development in New Zealand

Michael C. Shone

5. Developing Markets - the Neoliberalization of Tourism Structures in Jordan: The Example of Aqaba Special Economic Zone

Nicolai Scherle and Markus Pillmayer

6. Ecotourism as the Focus of the Neoliberal Tourism Project in India

Kevin Hannam and Maharaj Vijay Reddy

7. The Changing Nature of National Parks under Neoliberalisation

Dzingai K. Nyahunzvi

8. Social tourism: From redistribution to neoliberal aspiration development

Lynn Minnaert

9. Enacting Neoliberal Discourses through Heritage Tourism in Ghana

Francis Offeh and Kevin Hannam

10: Decommodifying Grass Roots Struggle Against a Neoliberal Tourism Agenda: Imagining a Local, Just and Sustainable Eco-tourism.

Stephen Wearing and Michael Wearing

11: Conclusion: Tourism and Neoliberalism: States, the Economy and Society