Aspects of 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 will be important in a post-Covid19 tourism industry.nt in a post-Covid19 tourism industry.

This book examines the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the measures for managing tourism after earthquakes and examines the means to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes. It provides insights into the ethical, commercial and socioeconomic issues facing tourism after a major earthquake.

Rural tourism has contributed to the income generation of countries in Asia thereby reducing poverty and improving quality of life. This book explores the fundamentals of responsible rural tourism. It covers a range of Asian countries and examines both successful and failed attempts in developing responsible rural tourism.

The term ‘contents tourism’ has been defined as ‘travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture…’. This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research.

This book offers insights into the demands made on staff in service encounters in tourism, events and hospitality roles. It hinges upon storied incidents offered by workers about which the reader can reflect and apply theoretical knowledge. Each chapter includes learning objectives, questions and summaries.

This book offers a multidisciplinary, holistic appraisal of the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) for tourism and related mobilities. It attempts to look beyond the short- to medium-term consequences of these processes for both the UK and the EU.

This book is the first to examine the complexity of global Christian travel and how it manifests in terms of both supply and demand. It considers the places and spaces of production and consumption of this increasingly important tourism phenomenon and includes examples from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America.

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 collision of religion, politics and tourism.

This volume seeks to expose and illustrate new approaches and thinking in qualitative methods that are being developed and implemented in tourism research. The chapters present an opportunity for social researchers from a range of disciplines to examine how to adapt the wide variety of qualitative approaches to their particular research needs.

This book examines the main issues and concepts relating to heritage, screen and literary tourism (HSLT) and analyses the demand and supply of HSLT within the frameworks provided by service-dominant logic and value creation to enable a critical perspective on how HSLT tourist experiences are created, produced and shaped.

This book is the first to explore Arabic tourism from a business viewpoint and focuses on business planning, management and marketing destinations in the Arab World. It examines similarities and differences in the emergence and development of the tourism industry in countries across the Arab world as well as its inbound and outbound travel flows.

This book combines academic analysis and critical exploration to examine national narratives in the context of tourism and events. It explores how particular narratives are woven to tell (and sell) a national story and closely examines how national texts create key archival imagery that can promote tourism and events and shape national identity.

This book is the first to explore Asian gendered identities and tourism from both Asian and Western perspectives. The authors reflect on the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia and on their own experiences of understanding and negotiating Western and Asian identities and practices.

This book examines and analyses the connections between gastronomy, tourism and the media. It argues that in the modern world, gastronomy is increasingly a major component and driver of tourism and that destinations are using their cuisines and food cultures in marketing to increase their competitive advantage.

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. It examines the rapidly developing field of peer-to-peer tourism and the way it is changing tourist destinations.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a framework to apply marketing principles to inform practices and guide the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas.

This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience? The book explores these and many other futures and scenarios.

In this book experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The debates include subjects such as the concept of the ‘tourist’, the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer tourism and the vulnerability of tourism.

This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In assembling an international collection of quality VFR-related research the editors present the profiles, characteristics, opportunities and behaviours of VFR travel for the benefit of researchers, industry practitioners and educators.

This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour can occur during tourism exchanges including guided tours, tourism marketing and promotion and travel narratives.

This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect and aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between animals, tourists and the tourism industry.

This book aims to unite theory and practice in the field of destination marketing. It attempts to reconcile the gap between the academic literature on urban destination marketing and the manner in which it is actually undertaken by destination marketing organisations (DMOs).

This book focuses on ethnic and minority communities in urban contexts and the ways in which their cultures are represented in tourism development. It offers a multi-disciplinary approach which draws on examples and case studies of ethnic and minority communities and their cultures from all around the world.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of trails and routes from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume addresses conceptual and management issues systematically, examining supply, demand, development and impacts associated with trails and routes.

This book provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of tour guiding scholarship and research. It aims to foster best practice and to stimulate further study and research on tour guiding across a range of disciplines. Its accessible style with chapter summaries makes it ideal for students as well as researchers.

This book provides a systematic, country-by-country analysis of tourism policy, planning and organisation in the EU. It applies a conceptual framework to offer a new critical approach to comparative policy analysis in tourism in the EU.

This book by leading international tourism researchers examines the key trends in European tourism planning and organisation. It introduces a theoretical framework to tourism planning and organisation using a procedural and structural approach. It also identifies leading and emerging practices and offers a new vision for European tourism planning.

This book offers an in-depth understanding of tourism development and destination planning in China's transitional economy. It represents an international collaboration between researchers both in and outside China and provides a unique platform for a broad international audience to better understand China and China tourism issues.

This cutting-edge international book brings together leading experts’ latest research in the field of family tourism by adding to its underdeveloped knowledge base. It highlights the infancy of academic family tourism research and addresses future implications and theoretical debates about the place of families within 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 commentary.

This book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism, addressing growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Drawing on a range of case studies, it explores how slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics.

This book brings together global experts in planning, design and management to inform and stimulate providers of travel, transport, accommodation, leisure and tourism services to serve guests with disabilities, seniors and the wider markets that require good accessibility.

This book examines the concept of social tourism within a European context. It places social tourism within a historical context of social development in the region, highlighting the diverse ways in which social tourism has evolved, identifying commonalities and providing a comprehensive definition.

This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in emerging and fresh topics in contemporary tourist behaviour and experience. Topics explored include the effects of newer technologies on tourists’ behaviour and experience, tourists’ experience of scams, safety and personal responsibility and individual perspectives on sustainability.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed critical analysis in English of the tourism industry in Mallorca. With origins in the end of the nineteenth century, the emphasis is on the development of mass tourism since the mid-1950s and the attempts to manage its environmental impact and to introduce diversification into the market.

This is the first book to specifically examine zoos as tourist attractions. Taking a global approach, it considers the multiple roles of zoos, particularly the difficulty of balancing conservation, education and entertainment.

Inclusion, disability, ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible tourism.

This book brings together established and emerging international scholars to provide systematic reviews and illustrative cases drawn from tourism, leisure, hospitality, sport and event contexts. It offers a useful framework for focusing the goals and methodologies of future research efforts and for implementing the results of these efforts.

This book draws attention to the problems and issues surrounding fast-growing tourism in the highly sensitive wilderness areas of polar regions. The authors discuss mainly polar issues, but their conclusions and management techniques apply equally to all environmentally sensitive areas throughout the world.

This book examines the on-site experiences of film-induced tourists at various film locations, including locations from The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and The Sound of Music. The study attempts to understand the needs and wants of film location tourists and also examines how to use films for destination marketing.

This book is a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism. Drawing on existing literature, numerous examples and introducing new conceptual perspectives, it develops a theoretically informed foundation for examining the demand for and supply of dark tourism experiences.

The book is an accessible examination of the complex connections between tourism and sustainability in a southern African context. It introduces relationships between tourism, sustainability and development with a range of case studies from the region, focusing especially on natural resource dependent communities in processes of transition.

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.

Tourism is an increasingly important industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) that is integral to economic, social and sustainable development. This book is includes case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resources, concepts and issues.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the contribution of network analysis to the understanding of tourism destinations and organizations. It discusses both the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of network analysis and then illustrates the relevance of this approach in a series of tourism applications.

This book aims to develop a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts. It draws on examples from a range of economies and environments written by key experts.Themes include the processes of restructuring, attempts to develop sustainable agendas and environmental issues of developing resorts in sensitive areas.

This volume provides a timely and intensive look at the theory and practice of codes of ethics in tourism. It includes a broad overview of what has been done to date in tourism studies in the area of code development and implementation and incorporates theoretical work from outside the tourism field in an effort to synthesise theory and practice.

Lakes are some of the world's most popular tourism attractions. However, the sustainable development of lake tourism has become increasingly problematic. This volume brings together the key elements of lake tourism in order to present the urgent need for an integrated approach to lacustrine tourism systems management.

This book focuses on the demand, supply, key features and events that take place across the regions of Canada, the USA and Mexico. The diversity of socio-cultural, natural and economic features within and between regions has situated all 3 regions in positions of prominence on the World Tourism Organization list of top international destinations.

This book comprises chapters by leading researchers who have reviewed the original model in the light of their own and other conceptual and theoretical positions and models.Sections are on the origins of the TALC, spatial relationships, alternative conceptual approaches, renewing or retiring with the TALC and predicting with the TALC.

This volume contains specially commissioned chapters by leading researchers who have used and modified the original TALC model over the past two decades, a reprint of the original article, a discussion of its origins, and a comprehensive review of most of the published material using the TALC.

This volume presents a thorough tour of the social psychological processes which underpin contemporary travel. The fascinating phenomenon of tourist behaviour deals with topics such as motivation, destination choice, travellers' on site experiences, satisfaction and learning.

This is a structured, edited book of nineteen chapters which provides, from an inter-disciplinary perspective, latest thinking on, and practical case study exemplification of rural tourism and sustainable business development from Europe, North America, Australasia, the Middle East and Japan.

This book is a landmark contribution to the rapidly growing field of wildlife tourism, especially in regard to its underpinning foundations of science, conservation and policy. Written by a number of environmental and biological scientists it explains the synergy between wildlife and tourism by drawing on their global experiences.

This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed.

This book provides a detailed examinations of the problems of nature-based tourism development in peripheral areas. It illustrates the challenges and difficulties of managing nature-based tourism resources. A central theme of the book is the degree of opportunity that nature-based tourism provides as the basis for peripheral region development.

This comprehensive handbook is designed to act as a single source of reference for tourism in Oceania, a region that is growing in significance as a tourism destination. It provides a detailed anatomy of tourism in the region on a country by country basis, plus a view of the future and an analysis of key issues contributed by experts in the field.

Strategic planning within a community framework is essential for tourism to reach its potential. This book combines the four principal functions of business management and stakeholder analysis to develop a model of collaborative decision making. This model offers a template for communities to understand and make the most of their tourism resources.

This book examines the economic, social and environmental impacts and issues associated with the development of sport tourism globally, including the lack of research and coordination between industry and government. The book suggests the need for a more balanced analysis of the impacts and issues associated with future sport tourism development.

A decade after the first edition of this book established itself as one of the major books that covered the nature of the demand for tourism, and the implications of that demand, this second edition represents a significant updating of material that reflects contemporary thinking.

The central importance of involving diverse stakeholders in effective sustainable tourism planning and management is increasingly recognised. Collaboration and partnerships are valuable ways of achieving this. Leading researchers and practitioners examine the processes, issues and politics involved in this new and fast growing field.

This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN’s sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and leading agencies.

This revised edition incorporates new material on the sharing economy, AI, surface and marine transport, resident quality of life issues, the price mechanism, the economic contribution of tourism, and tourism and economic growth. It remains an accessible text for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism economics and policy.

This book explores sport-related tourism and presents multidisciplinary perspectives of sport tourism, as structured by the geographical concepts of space, place and environment. It offers a comprehensive update of the discussions presented in the two previous editions and aims to advance theoretical thinking on sport tourism development.

This book remains the most in-depth large-scale introductory text on ethics as applied to tourism. This new edition has been reworked and updated to take into account important works published since the first edition, including new references on ethics and tourism ethics, and to engage more with 20th century theorists in philosophy.

In this revised second edition, the authors offer a presentation of quantitative research methods for tourism researchers. This accessible and rigorous guide covers common issues in statistical analysis of data and the most widely-used techniques as well as several newer and less common approaches to data analysis.

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 tours and contents tourism.

This book explores the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the interconnected disciplines of tourism studies and development studies. This new edition includes updated chapters drawing on contemporary knowledge as well as 5 new chapters that consider emergent themes in tourism and development.

This book provides a comprehensive account of tourism in natural, wild and protected areas. The 2nd edition contains an overview of key literature and developments that have emerged since the publication of the 1st edition more than 10 years ago. As such, this book will remain an invaluable resource and review of the subject for many years to come.

Cultural heritage is one of the most prevalent tourism resources in the world. Most travel involves some element of culture and heritage tourism continues to grow each year. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and managerial concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism.

This textbook provides a comprehensive review of economic concepts and applications in tourism contexts. Topics include tourism demand and forecasting, tourism supply and pricing, measuring the impacts and benefits of changes in tourism demand, tourism investment and infrastructure, tourism and the environment and destination competitiveness.

Film-induced tourism can revitalise regional/rural communities and increase tourism to urban centres, however it carries with it its own unique problems. This book explores such elements, delving into the disciplines of sociology and psychology, along with the fields of destination marketing, community development and strategic planning.

This book draws together leading authors in tourism to provide state of the art reviews of research in fields of tourism. It revisits classic reviews which first appeared over a decade ago in the Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management book series. The reviews will be of use to students, researchers and teachers of tourism.