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Tourism and Ethnodevelopment: Inclusion, Empowerment and Self-determination by Ismar Borges de Lima 9780415788441
RRP: $263.25$229.48Ethnodevelopment is a well-established concept in the field of development studies. Despite its relevance to tourism initiatives and processes in the Global South, it continues to be an underutilised concept in the field. This book bridges this... -
Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life by Philip Pearce 9780415811071
RRP: $77.98$68.37Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet. Yet there is a lack of specific attention to the ways in which we can better understand and evaluate the relationship... -
Event Tourism and Cultural Tourism: Issues and Debates by Larry Dwyer 9780415754781
RRP: $89.68$78.25Event and cultural tourism as a social practice is a widespread phenomenon of global socio-economic importance. The purpose of the book is to bring together current thinking on contemporary issues relating to the management and marketing of cultural... -
Carbon Management in Tourism: Mitigating the Impacts on Climate Change by Stefan Gossling 9780415566339
RRP: $120.88$105.32Climate change is one of the single most important global environmental issues facing the world today and is emerging as a major topic in tourism studies. Tourism is one of the world's largest industries; it both contributes to, and will be notably... -
Marketing in the Tourism Industry: The Promotion of Destination Regions by Brian Goodall 9780415751476
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book examines how different sections of the tourism industry attempt to reach their markets. A wide range of distinctive forms of holiday are considered, and the influence their characteristics have on how they are marketed is discussed. But the... -
Heritage and the Olympics: People, Place and Performance by Sean Gammon 9780415726009
RRP: $263.25$228.70The Olympic Games have evolved into the most prestigious sport event on the planet. As a consequence, each Games generates more and more interest from the academic community. Sociology, politics, geography and history have all played a part in helping to... -
Tourism and Poverty by Regina Scheyvens 9780415851671
RRP: $105.28$91.40Tourism and Poverty addresses a critical question facing many academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies around the world: can tourism work as a tool to overcome poverty? This book is the first to present a... -
Social Tourism: Perspectives and Potential by Lynn Minnaert 9780415523783
RRP: $263.25$228.70Social tourism refers to facilitating access to tourism for low income groups and/or the use of tourism as a regeneration and economic stimulation strategy. Although social tourism has its roots in the early 20th Century and is still a major component of... -
Tourism, Power and Space by Andrew Church 9780415513968
RRP: $85.78$74.96This is the first volume to explicitly consider how leisure and tourism acts as a major focus by which power may be understood in a geographical context. Key thinking and major approaches to unravelling the complexities of power are outlined in this... -
Events and Festivals: Current Trends and Issues by Martin Robertson 9780415495639
RRP: $85.78$74.96Events and Festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles. We recognise them as part of our lives. For some, of they are a very significant part of our lives. The network of festivals and events that either adorn the world now, or... -
Queering Tourism: Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades by Lynda Johnston 9780415482103
RRP: $85.78$74.96Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated. From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyzes the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events,... -
Events and Festivals: Current Trends and Issues by Martin Robertson 9780415449182
RRP: $263.25$228.70Events and festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles. We recognize them as part of our lives. For some, they are a very significant part of our lives. The network of festivals and events that either adorn the world now, or... -
The Olympics: A Critical Reader by Jim Parry 9780415445368
RRP: $120.88$105.32The Olympics: A Critical Reader represents a unique, critical guide to the definitive sporting mega-event and the wider phenomenon it represents - Olympism. Combining classic texts and thoughtful editorial discussion with challenging new pieces,... -
Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific by Bruce Prideaux 9780415366731
RRP: $263.25$229.48The Asia Pacific region's enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage... -
Tourism Governance: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Sustainability by Bill Bramwell 9780415587716
RRP: $263.25$229.48The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development. Governance encompasses the many ways in which societies and industries are governed,... -
Theming Asia: Culture, Nature and Heritage in a Transforming Environment by Maribeth Erb 9780367891350
RRP: $77.98$68.37Theming Asia: Culture, Nature and Heritage in a Transforming Environment presents a theoretical, thematic and empirical examination of theming, theme parks and themed spaces in contemporary Asia. Drawing on cases from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan,... -
Entertainment Tourism by Jian Ming Luo 9780367889173
RRP: $38.98$34.50Entertainment tourism has recently become more popular. Entertainment attractions encourage tourists to travel around the world to have fun and are an important part of many gaming destinations. This book explores the tourist experience in entertainment... -
Culture and Cultures in Tourism: Exploring New Trends by Andres Artal-Tur 9780367150846
RRP: $263.25$228.70According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), international tourists engaging in cultural activities accounted for more than 500 million of international tourist numbers in 2017. City tourism relies on culture as a major product, providing... -
Mega-Events: Placemaking, Regeneration and City-Regional Development by Graeme Evans 9780367777104
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book brings together different perspectives of mega-event bidding, hosting and legacies. Their impact is considered through an international range of mega-events in terms of land use, political and socio-economic change, and the placemaking... -
Tourism and Geographies of Inequality: The New Global Slumming Phenomenon by Fabian Frenzel 9780367739683
RRP: $77.98$68.37Slum tourism is a controversial pastime rising in popularity on a global scale. Known as 'slumming', it has been practised since Victorian times. In recent years, slum tourism occurs in more and more cities of the Global South. Township tourism across... -
China Tourism: Cross-cultural Studies by Honggen Xiao 9780367739928
RRP: $74.08$65.09Deriving from a special issue on "China Watching" (Journal of China Tourism Research), this book presents the readers with a collection of seven independent research reports that adopt cross-cultural communication and cultural studies... -
Deconstructing Eurocentric Tourism and Heritage Narratives in Mexican American Communities: Juan de Onate as a West Texas Icon by Frank G. Perez 9780367776817
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book attempts to dismantle the unfounded Eurocentric view of US-born and immigrant Mexican peoples, that groups together the identities of Latinx, Chicanx, and other indigenous peoples of the Southwest into Hispanics whose contributions to the... -
Current Issues in Asian Tourism by Chris Cooper 9780367729271
RRP: $77.98$68.37This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors from Asian countries. It concentrates on two aspects of Asian Tourism: first, the Asian tourists themselves,... -
Tourism Research in Ibero-America: Urban Destinations, Sustainable Approaches and New Products by Andres Artal-Tur 9780367691844
RRP: $263.25$228.70This comprehensive volume includes new contributions in research by Ibero-American specialists in tourism analysis. The chapters deal with outstanding areas of interest at the level of tourism research, both from the professional and academic... -
Tourism and the Night: Rethinking Nocturnal Destinations by Andrew Smith 9780367695132
RRP: $263.25$213.04Over recent decades, municipal authorities have promoted their cities as places boasting desirable night-time activities. Light festivals, museum lates, nightclubbing, and night markets extend the typical tourist experience into the night and have become... -
City Integration and Tourism Development in the Greater Bay Area, China by Jian Ming Luo 9780367505332
RRP: $38.98$34.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367505332Author Jian Ming LuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 140g -
Performing Cultural Tourism: Communities, Tourists and Creative Practices by Susan Carson 9780367369125
RRP: $77.98$68.37While experiential staging is well documented in tourism studies, not enough has been written about the diverse types of experiences and expectations that visitors bring to the tourist space and how communities respond to, or indeed challenge, these... -
Ecotourism by David A. Fennell 9780367364595
RRP: $263.25$228.70The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in theory and practice, and examines the sector in reference to other related forms of tourism, impacts,... -
Tourism and Ethnodevelopment: Inclusion, Empowerment and Self-determination by Ismar Borges de Lima 9780367362294
RRP: $77.98$69.15Ethnodevelopment is a well-established concept in the field of development studies. Despite its relevance to tourism initiatives and processes in the Global South, it continues to be an underutilised concept in the field. This book bridges this... -
Waterways and the Cultural Landscape by Francesco Vallerani 9780367362263
RRP: $77.98$68.37Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new... -
Proximity and Intraregional Aspects of Tourism by Jelmer Jeuring 9780367321802
RRP: $85.78$74.96Tourism research often tends to overlook both the mundane of the exotic and the exotic of the everyday. However, when acknowledging that exoticism is not necessarily linked to geographical distance, it is similarly possible to attribute touristic... -
Sustainable Tourism and Indigenous Peoples by Anna Carr 9780367264796
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and insight rich review of both the positive (capacity building, cultural conservation and economic opportunities) and negative (commodification, cultural change and possible loss of ownership and control)... -
Social Tourism at the Crossroads by Anya Diekmann 9780367258177
RRP: $263.25$73.44Social tourism is at a pivotal point. Over the past decade, there has been increased interest and research into social tourism issues, and as a result there is now much greater evidence on the important role that social tourism can play in providing... -
From Olympic Administration to Olympic Governance by Emmanuel Bayle 9780367234119
RRP: $77.98$68.37Lausanne, the Swiss city IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Juan Antonio Samaranch honored with the title "Olympic capital" in 1994, is now the administrative capital of world sport. The past century has presented Olympism with... -
Crossing Borders by Mimi Sheller 9780367234041
RRP: $77.98$68.37Crossing Borders examines how translocal, transnational, and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving, dwelling, and circulating. The contributors offer nuanced understandings of the politics of mobility across various... -
Current Issues in Asian Tourism by Chris Cooper 9780367260972
RRP: $263.25$229.48This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors from Asian countries. It concentrates on two aspects of Asian Tourism: first, the Asian tourists themselves,... -
Ecotourism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Thirty Years of Practice by Kenneth Backman 9780367220211
RRP: $85.78$74.96Since its first mention in the academic literature, ecotourism has been endorsed by NGOs and governments as the most environmentally sound and locally beneficial method of tourist development. Over the last thirty years sub-Saharan Africa has adopted... -
Ethical Dilemmas in the Creative, Cultural and Service Industries by Johan Bouwer 9780367210151
RRP: $72.13$63.43Ethical Dilemmas in the Creative, Cultural and Service Industries enhances professional ethical awareness and supports students' development of skills for ethical decision-making in these growing sectors. It focusses on the shaping of personal and... -
Ethical Dilemmas in the Creative, Cultural and Service Industries by Johan Bouwer 9780367210113
RRP: $263.25$229.48Ethical Dilemmas in the Creative, Cultural and Service Industries enhances professional ethical awareness and supports students' development of skills for ethical decision-making in these growing sectors. It focusses on the shaping of personal and... -
Cruise Tourism in the Caribbean: Selling Sunshine by Martha Honey 9780367195762
RRP: $263.25$228.70This book explores the lessons learned from half a century of Caribbean cruise tourism; one of the most popular and profitable sectors of the tourism industry. The modern-day cruise industry dates from the 1960s when the three major cruise lines,...