Channel View Publications: 585 books
Backpacker Tourism
Concepts and Profiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
The search for new tourism experiences as well as changes in the tourism industry itself has led to new forms of individualised travel and consequentially new forms of backpacker tourism. This volume provides an up to date examination of the behaviour, attitudes and motivations of backpacker tourists...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers....
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change
Remaking Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic...
Commercial Nationalism and Tourism
Selling the National Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book combines academic analysis and critical exploration to examine national narratives in the context of tourism and events around the world. It explores how particular narratives are woven to tell (and sell) a national story. By deconstructing images of the nation, it closely examines how national...
Tourism in the Middle East
Continuity, Change and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
This edited volume on tourism in the Middle East embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism in the region offering not only different perspectives but qualifying local knowledge and realities. The book re-examines the discourse of tourism within geopolitical contemporary regional...
The Future of Food Tourism
Foodies, Experiences, Exclusivity, Visions and Political Capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience associated with place and history? The book’s...
Social Tourism in Europe
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This book, the first on social tourism in English, provides a comprehensive analysis of the various systems and practices in support of disadvantaged people's enjoyment of tourism. Combining theory and practice and a truly European perspective, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to examine...
Tourism and Trails
Cultural, Ecological and Management Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to comprehensively examine these tourism trails from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume...
Tourism and National Identity
Heritage and Nationhood in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This book explores the role of tourism as a means to express 'nation' and 'nationhood'. Based on field research in southwest and central Scotland it shows how various historical accounts, cultural icons and images, events and celebrations create a meaning of the Scottish nation. It examines the narratives,...
Tourism in the Arab World
An Industry Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This book is the first to explore Arabic tourism from a business viewpoint, rather than taking a sociological, anthropological or political stance. It focuses on business planning, management and marketing destinations in the Arab World, which are topics crucial for industry stakeholders and which...
Coastal Mass Tourism
Diversification and Sustainable Development in Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
The Mediterranean coastal regions of Southern Europe have long been world leaders in mass tourism. This book examines some key questions for tourism development in these areas, with implications for similar regions across the world. The standardised forms of mass tourism are diversifying – with...
Youth Tourism to Israel
Educational Experiences of the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
This book is a cumulative analysis of an international, longitudinal study of a tour program which brings Jewish youth from around the world to Israel. It is a case study of the longest running and most thoroughly documented, intentionally organized heritage tour program in existence, including a...
Codes of Ethics in Tourism
Practice, Theory, Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2007
With ethics fast becoming a mainstay in tourism studies and the tourism industry in general, this volume provides a timely and intensive look at the theory and practice of codes of ethics in tourism. While the book includes a broad overview of what has been done to date in tourism studies in the area...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
This book provides the latest conceptual thinking on, and case study exemplification of, rural tourism and sustainable business development from Europe, North America, Australasia, the Middle East and Japan in 19 concise, manageable chapters. The book is organised into distinct yet interrelated sections,...