Globalization, Global Crises and Tourism

Abstract

This article focuses on the consequences of the contemporary global crises on the global, and, more specifically, the Asian tourism system. The effects of the economic slow-down in Western countries on the rate of growth and the shape of the global tourism system are discussed. From a broader perspective, the possible implications for tourism of the growing barriers to globalized flows and of the current protests against the prevailing Western politicoeconomic policies, as well as of the emergent anti-consumerist movements, are scrutinized. In conclusion, the need to re-think some long-range tourism policies in non-Western, particularly Asian, countries is stressed. GlobalizationGlobalization has brought about the elimination of barriers, economic, political and cultural, to the free flow of people, goods, capital, information, communication and lifestyles on a world-wide scale. It has facilitated a radical contraction of space I time processes, diminished the role of ''bounded" territorial entities, such as states, and given rise to the emergence of de-territorialized organizations, such as international companies, global finandal institutions, and trans-national political frameworks.Globalization has engendered visions of the disappearance of the nation state as a political framework ERIK COHEN is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and lives at 61/149 Prasert

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