| Abstract: | Partners for Livable Places has, for the last 15 years, seen tourism as a resource of great importance for community economic development with tremendous impact on shaping future growth. Robert McNulty and Patricia Wafer of Partners for Livable Places, comment on transnational corporations. Their standpoint is that of an organization interested in tourism as an economic development strategy at the local level in the industrialized West, and as the most important economic argument for protection of endangered flora and fauna, and preservation of historic, cultural and archaeological resources in the Third World. |
