Tourism: The Key Concepts offers a comprehensive collection of the most frequently used and studied concepts in the subject of tourism. Within the text key terms, concepts, typologies and frameworks are examined in the context of the broader social sciences, blending together theory and practice to explore the scope of the subject.
Sustainability remains one of the major issues in tourism today. Concerns over climate and environmental change, the fallout from the global economic and financial crisis, and the seeming failure to meeting UN Millennium development goals have only reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to tourism, however they be defined. Given the centrality of sustainability in tourism curricula, policies, research and practice it is therefore appropriate to prepare a state of the art handbook on the relationship between tourism and sustainability.
The Companion to Tourism presents acollection of readings that represent an essential andauthoritative reference on the state-of-the-art of theinterdisciplinary field of tourism studies. * Presents a comprehensive and critical overview of tourismstudies across the social sciences * Introduces emerging topics and reassesses key themes in tourismstudies in the light of recent developments * Includes 50 newly commissioned essays by leading experts in thesocial sciences from around the world * Contains cutting-edge perspectives on topics that includetourism s role in globalization, sustainable tourism, and thestate s role in tourism development
Tourism has often been described as being about ‘selling dreams’, tourist experiences being conceptualized as purely a marketing confection, a socially constructed need. However, the reality is that travel for leisure, business, meetings, sports or visiting loved ones has grown to be a very real sector of the global economy, requiring sophisticated business and marketing practices. The Handbook of Tourism Marketing explores and critically evaluates the current debates and controversies inherent to the theoretical, methodological and practical processes of marketing within this complex and multi-sector industry.
