Mass tourism and the dilemmas of modernization in Pacific Island communities
Authors:
Timothy J. Macnaught
Affiliation:
St. Francis Xavier College Beaconsfield, Victoria, Australia
Abstract:
This paper relates global discussions of tourism as a means of development to the history of cultural contacts in the Pacific. The paper reviews the relevance of the existing literature on social and cultural impacts of tourism to the Pacific and suggests implications for policy makers and community leaders. The existing literature is found to be methodologically suspect and does not provide helpful knowledge to policy-makers.