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Book Review: Managing Airports: An International Perspective

It is not the taking of a particular position on tourism that I find distasteful about this book, but the pretence that it is balanced. It is not. The book is a thinly veiled attack on the work of those who see tourism as a powerful force for change, a classic example of what globalisation theorists call the local:global nexus. This is a real shame because the author is clearly well read and well travelled, but somehow fails to get meaning across to his audience. The anecdote 'George's South Gambia Adventure' (chapter ten: 'Slim Pickings on the Smiling Coast') is frankly embarrassing, yet his handling of African American tourists in The Gambia (pp. 158-159) is sensitive and revealing. In conclusion, this is a confusing and inconsistent book. Parts of it are really quite worthy, but these moments are more than countered by a curious undercurrent that is sufficient to undermine any of the book's good intentions. So, while the book is aimed at students (I would speculate that it is based on the lecture notes of a taught module) the author's prejudices would make it difficult to recommend as a textbook and it is unlikely that practitioners or researchers would find anything new in it.