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Philosophical issues in tourism
The aim of this book is to bridge the disciplines of philosophy and tourism and to provide an analysis and application of philosophical issues of tourism. In doing so this book focuses on three key areas of knowledge, aesthetics and values.
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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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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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Tourism and national identity
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.
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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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Gamification for tourism
This book examines the cutting-edge concept of gamification in tourism. The chapters offer valuable insights and examples of best practice and address key issues of game mechanism and game design principles. This will be useful for students and researchers in tourism marketing, smart tourism and ...
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2050 - tomorrow's tourism
This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought-provoking analytical...
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Film-induced tourism
This research-based monograph presents an introduction to the concept of film-induced tourism, building on the work of the seminal first edition. This revised edition has been thoroughly updated with substantial additions including the areas of film-induced tourism in non-Western cultures, movie ...
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Learning the arts of linguistic survival
This book examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following directions the author argues for a new perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from one based on the acquisition of basic, functional skills to one which sustains...
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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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Tourism as a pathway to hope and happiness
This book explores the view that tourism can be a pathway to hope and happiness. It examines the role of tourism in preserving natural and architectural wonders, bringing out the best in tourists and locals and adding economic value if managed sustainably. It is a useful resource for students and...
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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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Youth tourism to israel
This book is a comprehensive analysis of educational tours to Israel for Jewish youth, based on the author's empirical research. The tours are explored from multiple aspects including: history, education, population and comparison of sub-populations, ethnic and religious identity, adolescence, ma...
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Wildlife tourism futures
This book presents possible future scenarios in wildlife and animal tourism. It offers critically-imagined futures in order to encourage readers to reflect on the possibility of shaping a better future. It will appeal to researchers, students and practitioners in wildlife tourism, environmental s...
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The tourism area life cycle
The Tourism Area Life Cycle model has been cited and used by academics and those in the industry for over 40 years. This book provides an overview of the contribution of the model, its strengths and weaknesses, and particularly its relevance in the 21st century. The final section considers revisi...
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Human resources and tourism
This book combines theoretical and practical aspects of applied human resources management using a critical lens. It is both a descriptive and analytical journey through the tourism sector which, due to its nature, may be described as a relatively deregulated and eclectic industry.
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Tourism paradoxes
At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to bett...
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Industrial heritage tourism
This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy.
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Tourism and religion
This book examines both specific issues and more general problems stemming from the interaction of religion, travel and tourism with hospitality and culture, as well as the implications for site management and interpretation. It explores pilgrimage along with issues and conflicts arising from the...
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Residential tourism
This book offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. This book draws on a diversity of perspectives in order to analyze the social and spatial impacts that this dynamic phenomenon...
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Crisis and disaster management for tourism
This book provides a strategic approach to understanding the nature of tourism crises and disasters highlighting the need for integrated crisis and disaster planning, response and long term recovery strategies. It will be essential reading for tourism academics as well as tourism managers and off...
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Spices and tourism
This is the first book to explore the relationship between tourism and spices. It examines the various layers of connection between spices and tourism in the context of destinations, attractions and cuisines. This volume will be useful for researchers and students in cultural tourism, culinary to...
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Festivals, tourism and social change
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful.Festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating ...
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Histories of tourism
This book develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. Contributions explore the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the local, from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, and...
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