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Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures´ current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.

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Introduction Capitalist Economics, Sectors and States: Understanding Tourism Explaining Irish Development State Development and Regime Change Tourism, the Irish State and Developmental Failures Tiger Growth, Tourism´s Roaring Trade 1987-2007 Crisis in 2008 Crisis: The Catalyst for Change Narrating Crisis in 1987 and Lessons not Learned in 2008 The Future of Irish Tourism and Conclusions

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ANNE O´ BRIEN Co-ordinates Provision by Kairos Communications Ltd. of Broadcast Production modules for the Centre for Media Studies at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She has produced a number of documentaries for Irish national broadcasters RTE and TG4.

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