CITY TOURISM National Capital Perspectives

• Main Authors: Maitland, Robert 1950- (Author), Ritchie, Brent W. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, UK CABI 2009
• Subjects: Tourism; Capitals (Cities); Cities and towns
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 City tourism has grown rapidly and spread well beyond tourist-historic cities and resorts. Most cities now aspire to be tourism destinations and tourism has become a priority for developers and policy makers. National capitals are particularly important, since as well as being destinations in their own right, they act as gateways to their coutnry, present the nations to the rest of the world an play a vital role in establishing national image and identity. Desite this, national capital tourism, like city tourism more generally, has suffered from a lack of research and analysis, limiting our understanding of how the qualities of these cities interact with changing tourism demands.