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Tourism, Gender and Equitable Development
Third World Resurgence, Issue 207/208
Dr. T T Sreekumar
Mass tourism in its present form began to take root in many developing countries in Asia when the liberalisation drive from the early 1980s helped a nascent hotel industry in the region to masquerade as the tourism industry. Following this development, massive tourism schemes and projects were planned and implemented in Asia disregarding the concerns raised by civil society organisations and ignoring national and international norms, leading to severe environmental damage and displacement of local communities.
