Tourism Planning and Policy in Australia and New Zealand: Cases, Issues and Practice.(Review)

Tourism Planning and Policy in Australia and New Zealand Cases, Issues and Practice (1996) Edited by Hall, C.M., Jenkins, J and Kearsley, G. Irwan Publishers.

Surprisingly, tourism policy is a somewhat neglected field of tourism research, certainly when compared to tourism planning. In this new volume, editors and authors Hall, Jenkins and Kearsley fuse the two areas of policy and planning into a series of topics examining, national, natural, rural and urban tourism. The volume is timely because tourism planning and policy issues are emerging as areas of increasing interest by government as well as industry and academia.

According to the editors, the aim of the volume, is to examine the supply and impact of tourism products in rural, urban and natural areas. To achieve this aim, the volume utilises reviews and case studies of contemporary tourism policy and planning issues. An interesting …