Hawaii, the Legend that Sells / / Bryan H. Farrell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Farrell, Bryan H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

This the first full study of Hawaii tourism and one of only a few studies anywhere that view tourism fully in social, economic, psychological, and environmental terms. While remaining unaffiliated with any particular faction, Dr. Farrell sees changes in the industry: an increased emphasis on quality, greater public involvement in industry decision making, better public and industry awareness, and a marked reorientation from domestic to international tourism. But he also warns of the dire results of moving in certain undesirable directions.What occurred in Hawaii provides a model for other places, especially developing countries. It illustrates both domestic and international tourism, benefits and costs, amity and frustration, interaction of hosts and guests, and, if not the way certain problems may be avoided, those problems which should not be allowed to develop.This book will be important for concerned residents of Hawaii, inveterate travelers or investors, the curious who wish to go beyond the travel poster, politicians who want to make the best decisions, activists who wish to see how the industry really operates, busy tourism industry managers who wish to widen their vistas, students of tourism, and the residents of developing countries who can then better decide whether tourism is the direction in which they want their countries to go.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Setting the Stage: Background to Present Development -- 2 Contemporary Leisure Development -- 3 Maui: The Valley Isle Comes to Life -- 4 Case Studies from Maui -- 5 State Relationships -- 6 The Counties -- 7 Tourism and Agriculture -- 8 Impacts on the Physical Landscape -- 9 The People of Hawaii -- 10 Tourists and Residents Meet -- 11 Human Impacts -- 12 Interest Groups, Bureaucracy, and Conflict -- 13 Plans, Trends, and the Future -- 14 Where Now? -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index