Product Description: This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunityto reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the lightof recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and thesocial sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operatingenvironment for tourism...read more

Product Description: Lakes are an essential element of some of the world's most popular tourism destinations. However, increased pressure from visitors and the tourism industry as well as from other, sometimes competing, land and water uses has made the sustainable development of lakes increasingly problematic...read more

Product Description: Climate change is one of the major issues facing us today and has been described as a threat greater than terrorism. As the world's largest industry tourism both contributes to and will be dramatically affected by climate change. This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed...read more

Due to its centrality to the processes of transnational mobilities, migration and globalization, tourism studies has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding the postcolonial experience. Drawing together theoretical and applied research, this fascinating book illuminates the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it creates a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries. Chapters are integrated and examined through concepts taken from the wider postcolonial literature, which identify tourism not only as an international industry but also as a postcolonial cultural form, which by its very nature is based on past and present day colonial structural relationships. The first book to explicitly explore the contribution tourism can make to the postcolonial experience, this book is an essential read for students of tourism, cultural studies and geography.

Product Description: Second homes - the cottage, the summer house, the bach - are an important part of the tourism and leisure lifestyles of many people in the developed world. Second homes are therefore an integral component of tourism experiences in rural and peripheral areas...read more

How will the travel and tourism industry respond to the terrorist attacks on America?The recent terrorist attacks in the United States and their repercussions for the travel and leisure industries have focused more attention on tourism safety and security issues than ever before. The impact on tourism destinations and businesses, as well as on traveler behavior, will be significant. Recent events require further analysis not only of how travel safety may be improved but also how security issues may be seen in terms of tourism marketing and management so that the industry is able to better respond to such challenges.In this, an era of turbulent global relationships, the need for destination marketing organizations to demonstrate that they are safe for tourists has become increasingly important. Negative publicity, often unrelated to on-the-ground reality, may also serve to affect tourist perceptions.Safety and Security in Tourism: Relationships, Management, and Marketing examines: the effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the tourism industry and how the industry is responding the importance of safety as a factor in destination or activity choice case studies of destination and business responses to past political instability and/or attacks against tourists safety, security and destination image the role of the media in influencing consumer perceptions of travel safety consumer awareness of travel advisories and their influence on behavior the role of insurance in the travel industry consumer awareness and acceptance of security measures in travel and tourism safety and security as a component in destination marketing crisis and risk management in the tourism industry cross-border security and visa controls and their implications for tourism safety and security measures for tourists in different sectors and in airportsTourism has often been cited as a force for peace, yet tourism is typically one of the first industrial casualties of war and political unrest. This book examines tourism safety and security issues to give you a better knowledge base from which to respond to future events. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This third edition is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to tourism, leisure and recreation. Each chapter offers a distinctive series of insights into how the geographer has approached the analysis of tourism and recreation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a comprehensive summary of past research by academics and original primary and secondary research by the authors and has examples from Asia, Australasia and the USA.The authors have generated new models to show different dimensions of sex tourism, which normalise at least some components of the sex industry, and represent a new way of looking at sex tourism by challenging the preconceived perceptions that some people have of sex tourism or confirm the impression of others. Sex Tourism looks at issues of importance to those working in tourism, women's studies, gender studies and social change. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: 'Tourism in South and South East Asia' is a comprehensive and solid introduction to tourism in South and South East Asia with a specific appeal both to institutions in the region, and other institutions who wish to expose students to one of the most dynamic tourism regions in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contains a thorough analysis and discussion of the political dimensions of tourism and the who gets what, where, how and why of tourism development. Examines tourism and politics at international, national, regional, local and individual levels, analyzing the relationship between them in terms of a number of critical issues such as tourism, terrorism and political instability; urban tourism development; and tourism's impact on culture...read more

Product Description: "Tourism and Planning" provides a fresh and stimulating approach to a major area of tourism studies, examining the key concepts of tourism planning. It emphasises the primary themes of tourism planning, examining the forces (at a global, regional and local level) which drive planning, and how tourism is integrated into existing economic, social, natural, business and political environments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent years have witnessed a change from the passive, low key useof rural areas for recreation to the explosion of tourism as ahighly active and dominant agent of change and control in thecountryside and associated rural communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Polar Tourism Tourism in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions Edited by Colin Michael Hall University of Canberra, Australia and Margaret E. Johnston Lakehead University, Canada The world’s polar regions have witnessed rapid tourism growth in the past decade, and although this may have been a welcome economic boon, substantial questions are now being asked about the effects of tourism on the environment and its social impact on the indigenous peoples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Heritage management has become an important issue in New Zealand and Australia, through a desire to preserve indigenous and European heritage, and also anxiety about inappropriate commercialization of heritage. This book discusses contemporary issues in heritage management, visitor management, and interpretation through review chapters and case studies...read more

Product Description: Once, wilderness was seen as waste or worthless land. Today, Australians are coming to value their threatened natural heritage, and are forcing government to play an active role in protecting it. Demands for wilderness preservation are not new...read more

Product Description: A recognized authority in the field, the author details the history and defines the role of hallmark events--ranging from cultural festivals to Olympic Games--focusing on their relationship to tourist development and marketing. Considers planning implications and their importance as major income generators...read more

Product Description: A rapidly-growing sector of the tourism market provides for special-interest or activity holidays, ranging from educational, through arts and culture, heritage, to sports and outdoor pursuits. This book analyzes the nature and growth of this area, the range and type of activities available, the business opportunities and management problems they present and likely future trends...read more

Product Description: Provides a broad analysis of the nature and growth, business opportunities and the management problems they present, the range and types of activities available as well as the current importance and future status of this rapidly evolving industry...read more