Tourism category: 1805 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Drawing from ethnographic work in five continents, this book demonstrates how different regimes of value in tourism can coexist, collide, and compete across a varied geographic terrain. Much theory in tourism economics defines ‘value’ as a measure of monetary worth, a concept governing commodity...
by Jamie Gillen
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam examines the intersection of entrepreneurialism and the tourism industry in modern-day Vietnam and uses case studies from tourism operators in Ho Chi Minh City to understand the effects of market reforms on Vietnam’s society. The primary argument...
Balancing Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations
Proceedings of the Tourism Outlook Conference 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015. The book presents comprehensive discussions on sustainability in the tourism industry. It includes research on various constituents of the tourism sector and analyses of each of them from a sustainability...
Tourism Research Frontiers
Beyond the Boundaries of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This book recognizes that while tourism research has undoubtedly penetrated and gone beyond a number of knowledge frontiers, frontiers are never static, but are constantly shifting and changing form in the context of a dynamic environment. This book therefore is a much needed contribution which acknowledges...
by Stephen Page, Stephen Page
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Tourism Management: managing for change is a complete synthesis of tourism, from its beginnings through to the major impacts it has on today's global community, the environment and economy. Provocative and stimulating, it challenges the conventional thinking and generates reflection, thought and debate....
Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development
Perspectives from the Less Developed World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant economic development impacts of backpacker tourism upon local communities especially in...
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Impacts
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
This handbook explores and critically examines both positive and negative impacts of tourism development focusing on the past, present and future issues, challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective. Through a comparative approach involving international case studies, this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However, despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality although...
Tourism in Pacific Islands
Current Issues and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Pacific Island Countries have been shown to be especially vulnerable to such external influences as natural disasters, political unrest and downturns in the global economy and their tourism industries have been notably affected. In particular, they typically have a narrow resource base and a fragile...
Wellness Tourism
A Destination Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Core values of society, health and wellbeing impact today on all aspects of our lives, and have also increasingly influenced patterns of tourism consumption and production. In this context wellness has developed into a significant dimension of tourism in a number of new and long established destinations....
Rural Tourism
New Concepts, New Research, New Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
This book describes, analyses, celebrates and interrogates the rise of rural tourism in the developed world over the last thirty years, while explaining its need to enter a new, second generation of development if it is to remain sustainable in all senses of that word. Contributors include 29 leading...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This book explores the phenomena of the urban everyday and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mix of theoretical and empirical work to look at the increasing intermingling of ‘tourists’ and ‘residents’.
Tourism and urban everyday life are deeply connected...
by Ravi Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Visitor attractions represent a complex sector of the tourism industry and are the catalytic focus for the development of tourism infrastructure and services. There are many attractions and tourism interests which influence people decision to travel. Depending on ones particular taste in adventure,...
A study of opportunities and threats emerging from the current and likely future tourism development in Dubai
With particular reference to the concept of sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Tourism, grade: Upper Second, New College Durham, language: English, abstract: This research project assesses the current and likely future tourism development in Dubai. Particular reference was given to the concept of sustainable tourism development....