ABSTRACT
This volume presents itself as the first comprehensive effort to examine Mediterranean tourism as a coherent unit of analysis. The influx of over a quarter of a million travellers 1 (not including domestic tourists) to Mediterranean shores has brought to the fore the need to study the nature and effects of tourist mobility and industry on the region's socioeconomic and cultural spheres. Issues such as the political economy of tourism, planning, management, policy, sustainability and restructuring have held fundamental significance for the book's analysis of Mediterranean tourism. The contributors have extended tourism literature by firmly placing Mediterranean tourism in the discourse of political economy, socioeconomic development and cultural change.
