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Beyond backpacker tourism
Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the ‘flashpacker’ and alternative destinations.
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The tourism imaginary and pilgrimages to the edges of the world
This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about ‘the edges of the world’.
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Tourism, globalisation and cultural change
This book offers original insights into the broad and deep influences of tourism, and places them within the historical context of globalisation. The research undertaken on a Canary Island emphasises the indigenous experience, and makes cross-cultural comparisons, especially with island communities.
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Constructing cultural tourism
Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the ‘tourist gaze’ (‘where to go and what to see’, and how to see it) as directed at landscape, scenery, architecture and townscape, from ...
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Polar tourism
This book draws attention to the problems and issues surrounding fast-growing tourism in the highly sensitive wilderness areas of polar regions. The authors discuss mainly polar issues, but their conclusions and management techniques apply equally to all environmentally sensitive areas throughout...
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Philosophies of hospitality and tourism
This book introduces readers to philosophies of hospitality and tourism. It provides insights into classic philosophical concepts and explains how these can inform the actions of tourism stakeholders, practitioners, hosts and tourists. The discussion of philanthropy is a strength of the book and ...
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Tourism and cricket
This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.
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Gay tourism
This book examines the emerging and shifting issues in the field of gay tourism, how these relate to significant societal and technological changes and the implications of these changes for theory, policy and practice. It will be a useful resource for students, lecturers and researchers in touris...
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Railway heritage and tourism
This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It explores the challenges faced by developers and operators of railway heritage destinations including financial, legal and managerial sustainability in t...
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The local turn in tourism
This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies way...
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Nordic tourism
Tourism is an increasingly important industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) that is integral to economic, social and sustainable development. This book is includes case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resource...
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Poverty and development
This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to broaden understandings of poverty. It contains empirical and conceptual chapters on a range of topics highlighting the relationship between poverty and sustainability. It will be a helpful resource for students and researchers of sustain...
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Tea and tourism
Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Traditions and Transformations outlines the social, political and developmental contexts of using tea cultures for tourism. Case studies of tea tourism destinations and products from around the world are included, for example from the UK; Sri Lanka; India; China; Taiwan...
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Travel, tourism and the moving image
This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place and can affect our deci...
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The impact of tourism in east africa
This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. T...
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Re-investing authenticity
This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling. Drawing on a range of perspectives and cases, it explores how the feeling of authenticity withi...
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Reinventing the local in tourism
This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. It examines the rapidly developing field of peer-to-peer tourism and the wa...
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Tourism and memories of home
This book investigates ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and diaspor...
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Sex in tourism
This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in tourism, including the light, dark and shades of grey between. It studies the affects and effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism; romance tourism, sex tourism and exploitation in tourism, including the sexual exploitation of ch...
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Challenges in tourism research
In this book experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The debates include subjects such as the concept of the ‘tourist’, the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of vol...
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Codes of ethics in tourism
This volume provides a timely and intensive look at the theory and practice of codes of ethics in tourism. It includes a broad overview of what has been done to date in tourism studies in the area of code development and implementation and incorporates theoretical work from outside the tourism fi...
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Tourism, cyclones, hurricanes and flooding
This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available to manage tourism after major storms and floods, examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of these disasters on tourism, and provides insights into the ethical issu...
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The passenger experience of air travel
Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, tra...
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Natural area tourism
This book provides a comprehensive account of tourism in natural, wild and protected areas. The 2nd edition contains an overview of key literature and developments that have emerged since the publication of the 1st edition more than 10 years ago. As such, this book will remain an invaluable resou...
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