impacts of beach users on the coastal environment. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles dis-cusses the complex relationships between tourism and justice in Chapter 12.The author analyzes the literature on tourism-generated injustice and providesexamples of how justice can be achieved through tourism.

Overall, the volume is very well-written and not only discusses the contributionof tourism to inequality, but also analyzes how the industry can contribute toreducing inequality. Secondly, it analyzes tourism induced inequalities from differ-ent perspectives, providing the reader with a broad and in-depth knowledge on thesubject. Perhaps a chapter on inequality arising from the provision of tourismtransport in host destinations could have been useful as Hall (1999, p. 181) argues:‘‘the role of tourist mobility at a local level can be critical for issues of inequalityand externality effect’’. Nevertheless, this is excellent book useful for graduate stu-dents and scholars conducting research on the topic.

Robin Nunkoo: Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University ofWaterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ON N2L 3G1. Email <rnunkoo@uwater-loo.ca>

REFERENCE

Hall, D. R. (1999). Conceptualising tourism transport: Inequality and externalityissues. Journal of Transport Geography, 7, 181–188.

Assigned 23 December 2010. Submitted 19 January 2011. Accepted 20 January 2011.

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TOURISM RESEARCH: A 20:20 VISION

Edited by Douglas Pearce and Richard Butler. GoodfellowPublishers <www.goodfellowpublishers.com> 2010, viii +241 pp. (tables, figures) 65 Hbk. ISBN 978-1-906884-10-9.

Ige PirnarYasar University, Turkey

Tourism research, per se, is one of the most untouched areas of tourism,although it is a core activity of academics, students, and consultants. The 18-chap-ter book is a valuable resource for these groups because it examines how the fieldhas evolved, what factors have shaped its development, and how it might develop inthe future. The papers here were originally presented at the 20th anniversary meet-ing of the Academy for the Study of Tourism. The main goal of the book is to pro-vide a clear understanding of the tourism research development process, thereasons, and implications for the advances and failures in the applications. It alsoidentified potential, principles, and future for tourism researchers.

The book is a collection of challenging and provocative 16 papers (plus anintroduction and conclusion) written by globally recognized experts from different

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disciplines. The collection begins with a series of stimulating broader perspectiveson progress in tourism research. The next two sections focus on advances in re-search on tourism development and business, and on the path tourism researchhas taken in particular parts of the world. The final section considers more emerg-ing themes and discusses how research on new topics arises and might proceed. Inthe concluding chapter, the editors identify lessons learned and suggest ways for-ward.

Chapter 1 provides an historical perspective on the development of interna-tional tourism before proceeding with critiques and reviews of tourism researchand explaining the structure and four main parts of the book. Moving into the firstmajor section, the second chapter discusses definitions, diagnoses of the health oftourism research, dead-ends encountered in tourism research, and reviewsdifferent schools of thought. Chapter 3, ‘‘A typology of theory in tourism’’, dis-cusses the use of the word ‘‘theory’’ from many perspectives. The chapter includesa table showing the frequency of types of theory in three leading journals over thelast 20 years, and is an especially interesting and creative work. Chapter 4 looksback and ahead more, reviewing tourism development and presumptions for thefuture improvements. The fifth chapter, on carrying capacity, covers definitions,origins, roles, and the decline of the carrying capacity concept.

Part II starts with a look at economic impacts of tourism, offering a comprehen-sive investigation of direct economic impacts, multiplier effects, input-output anal-ysis, current states of methods measuring tourism’s economic impact such ascomputerized general equilibrium models, tourism satellite accounts, and emerg-ing methods such as intervention models. This chapter is an excellent summariza-tion of these methods, describing each in a clear and academic manner. Chapter 7on small and medium enterprises (SME) looks at research agendas and missedopportunities. It is rich in tables, covering the evolution and current situation ofSME research. Chapter 8 reviews distribution systems from different approachesin brief and well organized papers. The next chapter looks at supply chains, pro-posing a collaborative approach for research. It covers of benefits, challenges,methodology, and design in a well organized structure. The final paper, Chapter10, in this section starts with a look at measures of success (in terms of the valueof tourism), proceeds through stakeholder analysis, and finishes with a divergenceof possible methods to assess value.

Part III—National and Regional Perspectives opens with a comprehensive lookat past and present research in Latin America. It covers topics of consolidation oftourism and tourism research in Latin America. Chapter 12 is an equally compre-hensive look at tourism and hospitality research in China from 2000 to 2008. Chap-ter 13 examines reflexive tourism studies in Bali, particular with respect to culturaltourism and sustainability.

The final major sector explores emerging research themes. It starts with a chap-ter charting a journey from refugee through tourism employee, to tourism entre-preneur. Chapter 15 examines supply-side and demand-side challenges in WorldHeritage Cultural Sites, emphasizing sustainability as a critical need. A figure onkey issues in tourism of World Heritage Sites is especially a comprehensive workon comparisons. Chapter 16, on tourism research ethics, reflects on current topicsand future options, including how the concept of research ethics has changed. Thenext chapter provides an innovative look at knowledge management in tourism,ranging from databases to learning destinations. The book concludes with a chap-ter on trends and advances in tourism research.

The language of the book is academic and formal, and the literature reviewsof all the chapters are comprehensive within their respective fields. The struc-ture of the book is also formal in that the chapters are complex. Readingthe book requires time because of the depth of information. Figures and tables,

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though concentrated in some chapters, are very helpful and serve the aim ofclarifying concepts and supplying information on examples related to the chap-ter’s topic.

This book provides a comprehensive work on tourism research, and thus is asuitable resource for both the students, researchers, and academics dealing withtourism research of any sort because it covers topics such as the history of tourismresearch, the development process, topics of concerns such as like carrying capac-ity and obstacles to implementation processes. Some chapters offer guidelines forapplying specific methods, sometimes with a list of dos and don’ts, while giving prac-tical various examples. This book is recommended to researchers, graduate stu-dents, and academicians studying any aspect of tourism. In comparison to otherbooks on this topic, Tourism Research: A 20:20 Vision, offers a truly diverse collectionof chapters on the perspectives, advances, and emerging themes of tourism re-search.

Ige Pirnar: Department of Tourism Management, Yasar University, Bornova, Izmir,Turkey. Email <ige.pirnar@yasar.edu.tr>

Assigned 29 July 2010. Submitted 3 Feburary 2011. Accepted 9 February 2011.

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2011.04.005

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AUTHENTICATING ETHNIC TOURISM

By Philip Feifan Xie. Channel View Publications <http://www.multilingual-matters.com/> 2011, xv + 272 pp. (figures,plates, tables, references, index) £29.95 Pbk. ISBN 978-1-84541-157-2.

Maria T. AmoamoUniversity of Otago, New Zealand

The slippery and contested term, ‘‘authenticity’’, has proliferated in tourismstudies for four decades and continues in Philip Xie’s new book, Authenticating Eth-nic Tourism. Past research settings invariably focused on ethnic minorities wherebyissues of identity, representation, ownership and cultural commoditization mergedwith subject/object, self/other, and past/present. These are themes reiterated andreinterpreted by Xie. The text offers a pragmatic and useful, though not entirelynew, focus. It addresses topics such as the tourist gaze, the host-guest relationship,politics and power dynamics, in relation to representations of culture in andthrough tourism, building on writing by other, earlier authors. The book is well-re-searched, conceptualized, and written in an approachable and thought-provokingstyle. Its central aim is to shift away from the discourse of authenticity to the pro-cesses of authenticating ethnic tourism. Xie achieves this goal by applying a strongconceptual framework to analyze and evaluate authentication by different stake-holders of ethnic tourism in a specific setting—the ethnic Li minority on HainanIsland, China. Taking a comparative approach, Xie focuses on the roles and needs