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Book reviews Tourism Planning: Basics, Concepts, Cases Clare A Gunn Taylor & Francis, Washington DC (1994) xvii + 460 pp $25.00

I took both this third edition of Profes- sor Clare Gunn 's Tourism Planning and the 1988 second edition to New- foundland in August, anticipating that enveloped in fog I would have plenty of time to compare the two editions. In the event, splendid weather on The Rock ensured that we drove around every peninsula savouring every cove and seascape - and Gunn remained neglected in the rental car. Since that field trip, toward the end of New- foundland's brief summer tourist sea- son, I have leafed through the two editions; but I have decided that an extended comparative review of the two is not what busy readers want, and I have sought to limit the comparative remarks.

This third edition is a hundred pages longer than the second; and the num- ber of figures has increased from 30 to almost 100 - there are one or two additional general charts (e.g. Figure 5-10: Coastal Tourism Inventory Pro- cess) but most of the new ones are maps and plans to do with the many case studies in the book. As one might expect, there are some thoughts on The New Planning ('planning with rather than only for ', p 20) and dis- cussions of sustainable development and ecotourism. And there are many references to recently published jour- nal articles; and, of course, the main points and diagrams from important works have been integrated into the book.

The bulk of the new edition (some 300 pages comprising Part II) concerns concepts and examples of tourism planning, the cases. And one wel- comes the organization of the princi- ples and examples in terms of three scales - regional, destination and site. The regional is macro; destinations and sites are micro. Gunn has sought

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to distinguish the planning concepts relevant to each; and he reviews nine regional planning cases, nine destina- tion planning cases and a dozen site- planning cases. To readers of this note who want to know what has been retained from the earlier 1988 treat- ment of planning, and what has been discarded, and how the ideas have been shuffled around, I have to say that it was in Part II that I finally aborted my efforts to relate the 1988 and 1994 treatments. I decided to forget the old and go with the new, though I still have a lingering concern about where the ideas in the 1988 chapter on community tourism plan- ning are now presented. I am happy to say that my initial disappointment that Gunn had excised his succinct state- ment about the four goals of tourism planning turned to modified rapture when I located a somewhat extended discussion of the four goals early on in the new edition (pp 11-18). They fully deserve their promotion, say I.

Concerning the four chapters that comprise Part 1 The Basics (pp 1- 105), the tone seems to be more pro- tourism, with the argument addressed to areas that are actively seeking tour- ism development, rather than to those that might be debating the pros and cons. That is my interpretation of the omission of those half-dozen pages on negative impacts (pp8-12, 1988). More regrettably, I think, Dr Gunn has not retained his single diagram (model) of The Functioning Tourism System (Figure 3-1, 1988). I thought that, in fact, he might have elaborated it (as others have shown it can be). But he has chosen to decapitate the old FTS figure: population and de- mand have gone. Instead, he gives us a diagram of Functioning Components of Supply Side (Figure 2-3, 1994), with information and promotion now separate components. Is the tourist getting less attention than he/she was previously accorded? What hap- pended to lifestyles, and Plog (who continues to contribute)?

Another feature of Gunn's textbook that has been especially useful in the classroom and seminar room is the final chapter entitled 'Conclusion and Principles'. The 1994 version is con- siderably rearranged and rewritten. The final point, however, is still: Tourism Must Not Be Overplanned.

Professor Gunn's 1994 book will, I believe, please and stimulate many in the field of tourism planning (meaning spatial planning). It certainly has a couple of weighty rivals in the text- book stakes, but I would consider a student who had digested its 450 pages to be very well informed - and perhaps even ready to go out there into the real world and engage in the planning process and start making tourism planning decisions, or at least formulating options. Those in New- foundland pondering product de- velopment and more specifically the feasibility of increasing the number of golf courses are sure to find something of relevance in Tourism Planning, 1994.

Bruce Young Department of Geography Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3CS Canada

Leisure in Society: A Network Structu- ral Perspective Patricia A Stokowski Mansell, London (1994) 141 pp £35

Social networks refer to structured arrangements of relationships across systems of people. They embrace the notion that individuals and social groups are elements of larger com- munity or organizational systems. These broader structural systems func- tion to enable or restrict social be- havior on the personal or group levels by limiting access, information or re- sources among social actors. Recipro- cally, relationships on the local level also influence the involvement of

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