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 Development, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas
1st Edition
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By Sophia Rolle, Jessica Minnis, Ian Bethell-Bennett
August 01, 2022
This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries. The book achieves this by looking at the impacts of mass tourism development from ...
Tourism in Asian Cities
1st Edition
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By Saurabh Kumar Dixit
August 01, 2022
This timely and significant book explores the characteristics and complexities of Asian urban tourism, considering the extent to which Western paradigms can be transferred to Asian settings and the striking contrasts that exist within the region. In an era of unprecedented urban expansion in ...
Destination Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Destination Management and Governance
1st Edition
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By Elisa Innerhofer, Martin Fontanari, Harald Pechlaner
July 12, 2022
This book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. It argues that these concepts should be seen as interwoven processes, rather than alternative approaches. Resilience should be understood as a ...
International Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
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By Marcus L. Stephenson, Ala Al-Hamarneh
July 12, 2022
This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This region, which largely comprises the Arabian Peninsula, possesses some of the ...
Memory, Migration and Travel
1st Edition
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By Sabine Marschall
July 12, 2022
Migration and forcible displacement are growing and impactful dynamics of the current global age. These processes generate mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour driven by personal and collective memories. The chapters in this book highlight the importance of travel and tourism for...
Tourism in Iran: Challenges, Development and Issues
1st Edition
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By Siamak Seyfi, C. Michael Hall
July 12, 2022
Iran has long been regarded as an international pariah state in some parts of the international community. However, its negative image in many countries disguises its history of tourism and rich cultural and natural heritage. Following the July 2015 nuclear deal and the reduction in sanctions, Iran...
Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination
1st Edition
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By Jane Lovell, Sam Hitchmough
June 14, 2022
This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place. Blending social sciences and humanities research skills, it formulates an examination of the ...
Negotiating Hospitality: Ethics of Tourism Development in the Nicaraguan Highlands
1st Edition
By Emily Höckert
June 14, 2022
How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee- cultivating communities in Nicaragua. The research follows the trail of development practitioners and researchers who ...
Overtourism: Tourism Management and Solutions
1st Edition
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By Harald Pechlaner, Elisa Innerhofer, Greta Erschbamer
June 14, 2022
Overtourism explores a growing phenomenon in tourism that is currently creating tensions in both urban and rural tourist destinations worldwide. This volume proposes a framework for a series of possible solutions and management strategies for dealing with overtourism and the various negative ...
Positive Tourism in Africa
1st Edition
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By Mucha Mkono
June 14, 2022
Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africa’s tourism trajectory and future. It offers a uniquely optimistic outlook for tourism in Africa whilst acknowledging the many challenges that African countries continue ...
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities
1st Edition
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By Maria Gravari-Barbas, Nelson Graburn, Jean-Francois Staszak
June 14, 2022
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new understanding of tourism’s interaction with space, questioning the ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism in the built environment and vice versa. Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired themed built ...
Community-Based Tourism in the Developing World: Community Learning, Development & Enterprise
1st Edition
By Peter Wiltshier, Alan Clarke
June 13, 2022
This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices. It reviews a variety of systems useful for analysing and understanding management issues to offer new insight ...