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.
Political Ecology of Tourism: Community, power and the environment
1st Edition
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By Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum, Eric J. Shelton, Anna Thompson-Carr
April 25, 2018
Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna and calls for the further ...
The Politics and Power of Tourism in Palestine
1st Edition
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By Rami K. Isaac, C. Michael Hall, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
April 25, 2018
Tourism in Palestine has been receiving an increasingly important profile given its economic and religious importance and the significant role it plays in Israeli-Palestinian relations, representation of Palestinian statehood and identity, and wider Middle Eastern politics. Nevertheless, Palestine,...
Tourism and the Anthropocene
1st Edition
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By Martin Gren, Edward Huijbens
April 25, 2018
This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism, and it offers significant insights into how it might reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings ...
Tourism and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current issues and local realities
1st Edition
By Marina Novelli
October 12, 2017
Over the past 20 years, the perception of tourism as an effective contributor to socio-economic development in the developing world has propagated, with many viewing tourism as a provider for poverty alleviation and towards other UN Millennium Development Goals. Over the same period, readers have ...
A Hospitable World?: Organising Work and Workers in Hotels and Tourist Resorts
1st Edition
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By David Jordhus-Lier, Anders Underthun
May 25, 2017
The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets, ...
Affective Tourism: Dark routes in conflict
1st Edition
By Dorina Maria Buda
May 25, 2017
This book brings together, explores and expands socio-spatial affect, emotion and psychoanalytic drives in tourism for the first time. Affect is to be found in visceral intensities and resonances that circulate around and shape encounters between and amongst tourists, local tourism representatives ...
Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development: Perspectives from the Less Developed World
1st Edition
By Mark P. Hampton
May 25, 2017
There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant economic development impacts of backpacker tourism upon local communities especially in ...
Contemporary Issues in Cultural Heritage Tourism
1st Edition
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By Jamie Kaminski, Angela M. Benson, David Arnold
May 25, 2017
The perceived quality of a destination’s cultural offering has long been a significant factor in determining tourist choices of destination. More recently, the need to present touristic offerings that include cultural experiences and heritage has become widely recognised, that this aspect of ...
Green Growth and Travelism: Concept, Policy and Practice for Sustainable Tourism
1st Edition
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By Terry DeLacy, Min Jiang, Geoffrey Lipman, Shaun Vorster
May 25, 2017
The green growth paradigm emerged from evolving global strategies that coherently promote a more socially inclusive, low-carbon, resource-efficient, stable economy, with decreasing poverty. Opportunities and challenges associated with the paradigm shift are expected to transform the travel and ...
Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism
1st Edition
By Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing
May 25, 2017
The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture – whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video games. The West combines myth and history, rugged natural scenery and wide open spaces, popular culture ...
Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between
1st Edition
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By Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts
May 25, 2017
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these ...
Peace through Tourism: Promoting Human Security Through International Citizenship
1st Edition
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By Lynda-ann Blanchard, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
May 25, 2017
Peace through tourism refers to a body of analysis which suggests tourism may contribute to cross-cultural understanding, tolerance and even peace between communities and nations. What has been largely missing to date is a sustained critique of the potential and capacities of tourism to foster ...