Advances in Tourism
About the Book Series
Tourism has been the fastest growing industry of the last two decades as disposable incomes grow throughout the world. This series highlights central and topical issues relating to tourism including:
the management and organization of tourism
tourism and development
the benefits and disadvantages of the effects of tourism.
Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism
1st Edition
By Alisha Ali, Andrew Frew
May 24, 2017
Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the industry. There have been numerous texts written on sustainable tourism and the measures to mitigate and manage ...
Responsible Tourist Behaviour
1st Edition
By Clare Weeden
May 24, 2017
What is important to ethical consumers when thinking about going on holiday and how do they incorporate their lifestyle choices into these holidays? What values inform their lifestyles and how do they satisfy these values on holiday? Do ethical consumers automatically become ethical tourists or is ...
International Sports Events: Impacts, Experiences and Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Shipway, Alan Fyall
May 18, 2017
This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first ...
The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Creating an Academy of Hope
1st Edition
Edited
By Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, Annette Pritchard
May 18, 2017
In today’s increasingly complex tourism environment, decision-making requires a rounded, well-informed view of the whole. Critical distance should be encouraged, consultation and intellectual rigour should be the norm amongst managers and there needs to be a radical shift in our approach to ...
The Cultural Moment in Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson
May 18, 2017
This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as ...
Tourism and Retail: The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles McIntyre
May 18, 2017
Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of ...
Tourist Customer Service Satisfaction: An Encounter Approach
1st Edition
By Francis Noe, Muzaffer Uysal, Vincent Magnini
May 07, 2015
Customer satisfaction and loyalty in the tourism sector is highly dependent upon the behaviours of front-line service providers. Service is about people, how they relate to one another, fulfill each other’s needs and ultimately care for each other. Yet surprisingly there are few or any books which ...
Drive Tourism: Trends and Emerging Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Prideaux, Dean Carson
April 23, 2015
Since the post World War Two boom in private automobile ownership, Drive Tourism has transformed the tourism landscape by facilitating dispersal and the growth of attractions and tourism related infrastructure beyond the zones that had previously emerged around seaports and railway terminals. The ...
Tourism Supply Chain Management
1st Edition
By Haiyan Song
January 13, 2012
Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers as...