Key features - A comprehensive tour of the psychological processes underpinning contemporary travel - Of interest to tourism researchers, students and practitioners - Explores our current understanding of tourism behaviour and sets out paths for future research.
The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the product peoples history, culture and lifestyles. Culture and people thus become part of the tourism product. The implications are not fully understood, though the literature ranges the arguments along a continuum with culture being described on one hand as vulnerable and fixed, waiting to be impacted by tourism and on the other being seen as vibrant and perfectly well capable of dealing with globalization and modernity trends.
A Companion to Tourism (Blackwell Companions to Geography)
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This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunity
to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of
recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social
sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for
tourism.
A critical overview of current research in tourism studies.
Offers
readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in tourism studies in the
light of recent developments, such as terrorist attacks, SARS and the
financial failure of airlines.
Comprises 48 specially commissioned essays, written by more than 50 acknowledged experts from around the world.
Covers
cutting-edge perspectives and topics, including tourism’s role in
globalization, sustainable tourism, and the state’s role in tourism
development.
This book asks the question;
why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn
to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that
may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we do
tourism and the places in which we are tourists raise practical, material and
emotional questions about tourist life. These questions are at the heart of
this book. This book draws on both empirical work and a range of theoretical
frameworks, arguing that tourism matters precisely because of the lessons it
can teach us about living everyday life with others.
Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality, Third Edition
Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality, Third Edition
The Dictionary Of Travel, Tourism And Hospitality defines and explains mo re than 3000 terms and abbreviations in travel, tourism and hospitality. It also lists key data for more than 200 countries. The Dictionary Of Travel, Tourism And Hospitality covers business and employment terms, environmental issues, European integration, food and catering, forms and types of tourism and recreation, and travel-related illnesses. The Dictionary Of Travel, Tourism And Hospitality is a combination reference tool, manual and textbook. The Dictionary Of Travel , Tourism And Hospitality is a useful reference work for travel agents, travel guide writers, business travelers, and recreational tourists.
