Description
- Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism.
- Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and cultural phenomenon.
- Presents original essays written by established scholars, including studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast.
About the Author
Lily M. Hoffman is Associate Professor and Director of the Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy at City College/CUNY.
Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University.
Dennis R. Judd is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Reviews
"Building on the insight that markets rest on political foundations, this volume of highly perceptive studies asks how tourism has become increasingly prominent on the urban scene and how this has affected urban dwellers, positively as well as negatively. Fascinating, provocative, unexpected, never simplistic, this book gives us the state of the art on this timely subject." John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
"This book stands out in what is a rapidly growing literature on tourism by attempting a systematic empirical examination of major trends and components of urban tourism. It moves from global trends to the particular ways in which these become concrete economic, social, cultural conditions in specific cities. And it moves from detailed empirical analyses to broader interpretive framings of what it all means." Saskia Sassen, editor of Global Networks/Linked Cities
"The book is coherent, the chapters are consistent and the introduction and conclusion are well-written.....it will serve well the global economists who are interested in relationship between the global trends and tourism dynamics at the local level." Journal of American Planning Association
Book Information
ISBN 9781405100595
Author Lily M. Hoffman
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 369g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 156mm * 21mm
