TOURISM SPACE IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES

This article discusses tourism development theories with respect to their spatio-temporal implications in the Third World. They are all found to be inadequate in explaining the spatial occurrence and temporal development of tourism in developing countries. This is largely due to a lack of differentiation of tourism activity into different sectors. In response, the proposed model of 'tourist space in developing countrics' acknowledges the influence of the existing social and economic structures in these countries at all stages of tourism development, differentiates the tourism industry into two scctors, and recognizes the spatial segregation and diffcrent economic impacts of the sectors.