The impact of tourism in Fiji: a comparison of two villages. (includes bibliography)

Tourism has become big business--very big business. Tourism is the largest business in the world today with annual receipts for both domestic and international tourism exceeding US$2 trillion, which represents about 12% of the world economy. Tourism has also become the largest source of employment in the world; some estimates put Third World employment in travel and tourism alone at more than 50 million people.

This empirical study on the impact of tourism in two Fijian villages recognizes the neo-colonial, capitalistic nature of tourism in Fiji, until 1970 a British c