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O'Brien provides an innovative analysis that moves beyond current understandings of how tourism is developed. She offers a new theoretical concept of interlocking regimes to conceptualize the interactions of the state and the private sector, which either facilitate or prevent development. The book questions the classic presentation of the Irish tourism's underdevelopment, which did not occur because of inadequate visitor numbers but because the state actively refused to develop the sector. It also challenges classic accounts of the tourism 'boom' which propose that it was achieved due to the liberalisation of air access and resource transfers from the European Union. These factors were politically mediated, for better or worse, by the Irish state. Following the 2008 crisis, the state's capacity to engage with tourism development was undermined by their failure to radically reverse the declining fortunes of the industry by 2011.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Industry & industrial studies Service industries

• Full title: Politics of Tourism Development
• Subtitle: Booms and Busts in Ireland
• Author: Anne O'Brien
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 213
• EAN: 9780230284388
• ISBN: 0230284388
• ID: 04553491
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 144 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. December 2011

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