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Books and travel
The role of books in framing travel imaginings is an important social and cultural phenomenon. This book explores how reading books influences the way in which we understand travel and the tourist experience. It covers a variety of genres of books, from children’s books and historical fiction, to...
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The british on holiday
This ethnographic study involves periods of participant observation of charter tourists to the resorts of Palmanova and Magaluf on Mallorca. The book focuses on three key areas of social life: space, the body, and food and drink practices to explore issues relating to understandings of and constr...
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Zoos and tourism
This is the first book to specifically examine zoos as tourist attractions. Taking a global approach, it considers the multiple roles of zoos, particularly the difficulty of balancing conservation, education and entertainment.
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Tourism employment
The authors look at tourism employment in both its workplace context and its wider economic and social environment and attempt to tell a coherent story. Both behavioural and economic perspectives are used to address questions that are salient to manpower planning, education planning and tourism m...
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Cultural tourism in southern africa
This volume provides an overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tourism and the related impacts, possibilities and challenges from wide-ranging perspectives. Concepts explored include authenticity, commodification, the tourist ga...
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The future of cultural tourism
This book provides multi-layered and nuanced perspectives on how drivers of change may influence cultural tourism on a global, national and local level. As such, it contributes to a greater understanding of how cultural tourism will be governed, performed and experienced within a volatile, uncert...
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Accessible tourism
Inclusion, disability, ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible t...
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The tourism area life cycle, vol.2
This book comprises chapters by leading researchers who have reviewed the original model in the light of their own and other conceptual and theoretical positions and models.Sections are on the origins of the TALC, spatial relationships, alternative conceptual approaches, renewing or retiring with...
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Sport tourism
This book examines the economic, social and environmental impacts and issues associated with the development of sport tourism globally, including the lack of research and coordination between industry and government. The book suggests the need for a more balanced analysis of the impacts and issue...
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Mallorca and tourism
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed critical analysis in English of the tourism industry in Mallorca. With origins in the end of the nineteenth century, the emphasis is on the development of mass tourism since the mid-1950s and the attempts to manage its environmental impact and to in...
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Qualitative methods in tourism research
This volume seeks to expose and illustrate new approaches and thinking in qualitative methods that are being developed and implemented in tourism research. The chapters present an opportunity for social researchers from a range of disciplines to examine how to adapt the wide variety of qualitativ...
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Communicative practices at work
This book examines communicative practices in a high-tech firm in California's Silicon Valley, where employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest, local and global forces. It demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilin...
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Tourist experiences
This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching to...
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Tourism and oil
This book examines oil constraints and tourism and addresses one of the key challenges for the tourism industry in the future. It provides an estimate of how much oil tourism consumes globally and summarises state-of-the-art information on oil resources, oil data and public discourse. It also exp...
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Tourism ethics
This book remains the most in-depth large-scale introductory text on ethics as applied to tourism. This new edition has been reworked and updated to take into account important works published since the first edition, including new references on ethics and tourism ethics, and to engage more with ...
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Tourism development
This book takes a look at issues in tourism development. Topics include how global the industry has become; new forms of travel and new trends in marketing and promotion. It also deals with the threats posed to tourism development by wars, global terrorism and epidemics to conclude with an optimi...
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Tourism and earthquakes
This book examines the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the measures for managing tourism after earthquakes and examines the means to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes. It provides insights into the ethical, commercial and socioeconomic...
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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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Managing educational tourism
This book outlines the main forms of educational tourism, their demand and supply characteristics, their impacts and the management issues associated with them.It argues for adequate research and appropriate management of educational forms of tourism to maximise regional development impacts and p...
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Tourism in japan
This book deals with tourism, popular culture and daily life in Japan. It is written in an accessible style and will be of interest to tourists considering visiting Japan, Japanophiles, social scientists and humanities scholars with interests in Japan, and students taking courses in tourism, Japa...
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