Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change

Donald Macleod trained in anthropology at Oxford University and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow where he has run two research centres. He has researched in the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and Scotland, and published widely on tourism impacts, cultural change, globalisation, identity, sustainable tourism development and heritage. His books include Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change (2004), Niche Tourism In Question (2003 - editor), Tourists and Tourism (1997 - co-editor).

Dr Donald Macleod is a Research Fellow and Director of Crichton Tourism Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. He has a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and has taught at the University of London and Macalester College in the USA. Dr Macleod has researched in the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and Scotland on issues concerning tourism, globalisation, development, cultural change and identity. He has published widely including the books Niche Tourism in Question (editor) and Tourists and Tourism (co-editor).

The book is well-written and painstakingly researched… This is a valuable and balanced contribution to attempts to understand and analyse tourism and globalisation in one setting.

This book offers insights into the influences of tourists and tourism on the host community and places them within the historical context of globalisation.

Oriol Pi-Sunyer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11:4, December 2005:

Donald Macleod’s Tourism, globalization and cultural change is a solid ethnography, based on research spanning a dozen years. The study contains much that is new and interesting.