Fundamentals of Planning and Developing Tourism brings into focus the growing importance of tourism in developing economies of the world for social change alleviating poverty and achieving sustained growth It offers a complete organized and quantifiable methodology for tourism development planning that reflects economics marketing and crucial issues such as conservation capacity constraints and social acceptability It covers all steps used for analyzing and planning tourism development in free market mixed and centrally planned economies The text is replete with historical explorations and examples including several real life case studies illuminating both successes and failures in tourism planning and development