Hawaii, the Legend that Sells

Bibliographic Data

ID19916934
AuthorsBryan H Farrell (0000-0003-1674-9043, corresponding author)
Year1982
Publication date1982-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHawaii, the Legend That Sells (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780824886172
OpenAlexW1516119795
Open LibraryOL36245595M
ISBN9780824886172
LanguageEN
Citations received29

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

Art · Art history · Legend · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · hawaii · History · Hospitality industry · Social conditions · Tourism · West (U.S.)

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