Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.
It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography whilst also providing for perspectives from cognate areas within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.
Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.
Tourism and Difficult Histories in Japan
1st Edition
By Richard Sharpley, Kumi Kato
December 31, 2025
This book explores the relationship between tourism and difficult histories in Japan. More specifically, it considers the manner in which places associated with past dark events are presented and interpreted for tourists. In so doing, it seeks to identify the extent to which tourism contributes to ...
Customer Insight in Tourism: Segments, Profiles and Personas
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrian Lubowiecki-Vikuk, Izabela Michalska-Dudek
November 27, 2025
Customer Insight in Tourism: Segments, Profiles and Personas offers important insight into the phenomenon of new travellers and contemporary tools and techniques that help better recognize tourists and their changing needs. Based on cutting edge research, it explores contemporary customer trends ...
The Ethics of Volunteering in Tourism: A Critical Evaluation
1st Edition
By Konstantinos Tomazos
November 21, 2025
This timely and topical book offers a concise and targeted exploration of the ethical dimensions inherent to volunteering in tourism. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume delves into the nuanced interplay of factors such as the climate emergency, the phenomenon of flight shaming and the ...
The Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures of Tourism Destination Management
1st Edition
By Rami K. Isaac, Erdinç Çakmak, Richard Butler
September 25, 2025
Topical and novel, this book critically explores the possible, probable and preferable futures of tourism destinations exposing the reader to numerous issues and challenges related to current, global societies and geopolitical settings and adaptive strategies to mitigate such challenges at all ...
Media, Place and Tourism: Worlds of Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Deborah Castro, Débora Póvoa, Apoorva Nanjangud, Rosa Schiavone
August 29, 2025
Accessible and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume highlights the connections between media, tourism and place, bringing together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in critical issues relating to media tourism worldwide. This book explores new avenues, adopting a global ...
Literary Fiction Tourism: Understanding the Practice of Fiction-Inspired Travel
1st Edition
By Nicola E. MacLeod
July 31, 2025
This timely and insightful book critically reviews the synergistic relationship between books, literary culture, and the practices of tourism. The volume sets literary fiction tourism within its historical, theoretical, and managerial context and explores the current provision of literary tourism ...
Tourism and the Spectre of Unlimited Change: Living with Tourism in a Turkish Village Revisited
1st Edition
By Hazel Tucker
June 27, 2025
This insightful volume forms a sequel to Living with Tourism: Negotiating Identities in a Turkish Village, tracking the tourism development and associated social change in the small town of Göreme, in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, within the last two decades. Carefully crafted chapters explore the ...
Cultural Heritage, Community Engagement and Sustainable Tourism: Case Studies from Archaeological Sites in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Mithen, Mubariz Ahmed Rabbani, Maria Rabbani
May 20, 2025
This timely and innovative book critically explores how cultural heritage in the Global South can be used to mobilise community engagement and promote sustainable tourism at archaeological sites. Whilst the volume covers theoretical issues, it primarily offers insight into how both small and large ...
The Business of Poverty in Africa: Inside the Travel Philanthropy System
1st Edition
By Amy Scarth, Marina Novelli
April 30, 2025
This timely and thought-provoking book critically explores key theories, concepts and contemporary issues associated with the travel philanthropy phenomenon and within the debates of sustainable development in Africa. Since the Band Aid era in 1984, and alongside the rise of the international aid ...
Routledge Handbook of Social Psychology of Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Dogan Gursoy, Sedat Çelik
April 14, 2025
The impacts of tourism, an increasingly crucial area of study amongst researchers, are primarily investigated through economic, socio-cultural or environmental perspectives. The social psychological effects of tourism have not been adequately researched despite often being much more important for ...
Travel Disruptions: Impacts, Responses and Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Emmet McLoughlin, Domhnall Melly, James Hanrahan
March 14, 2025
This timely and pivotal volume explores the nexus of a wide range of travel disruptions and their multifaceted implications on the global travel and tourism industry. As the global travel and tourism industry struggles with an increasingly unpredictable landscape marked by natural disasters, health...
Cultural Heritage on the Urban Peripheries: Towards New Research Paradigms
1st Edition
Edited
By María García-Hernández, Maria Gravari-Barbas
January 27, 2025
This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and build upon that cultural heritage. Expert-led and ...