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 War
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Butler, Wantanee Suntikul
May 24, 2017
This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. Issues of peace and ...
Tourism in Pacific Islands: Current Issues and Future Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Pratt, David Harrison
May 24, 2017
Pacific Island Countries have been shown to be especially vulnerable to such external influences as natural disasters, political unrest and downturns in the global economy and their tourism industries have been notably affected. In particular, they typically have a narrow resource base and a ...
Trust, Tourism Development and Planning
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Nunkoo, Stephen L.J. Smith
May 24, 2017
The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society, social relations, and development processes. However, numerous studies suggest that societal trust and citizen’s trust in government and its institutions are on the decline, challenging the legitimacy of government and ...
Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity
1st Edition
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By René van der Duim, Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson
May 18, 2017
The recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures and technologies in multifarious ways. Despite the widespread application of ANT across the social ...
Children's and Families' Holiday Experience
1st Edition
By Neil Carr
May 18, 2017
Children’s and Families’ Holiday Experiences is based on the recognition of the active social role of children in shaping the nature of their holiday experiences and those of their parents and other adults. The volume provides significant insights into the holiday desires, expectations, and ...
Last Chance Tourism: Adapting Tourism Opportunities in a Changing World
1st Edition
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By Harvey Lemelin, Jackie Dawson, Emma J. Stewart
May 18, 2017
Concerns over vanishing destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, and the ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro have prompted some travel operators and tour agencies to recommend these destinations to consumers before they disappear. This travel trend has been reported as: ‘disappearing tourism...
The Study of Tourism: Past Trends and Future Directions
1st Edition
By Richard Sharpley
May 18, 2017
Over the last two decades, tourism has become firmly established as a recognized field of study and the focus of extensive academic research. There has been continual expansion in the provision of taught programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level, dramatic developments in the tourism ...
Tourism and Agriculture: New Geographies of Consumption, Production and Rural Restructuring
1st Edition
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By Rebecca Torres, Janet Momsen
May 18, 2017
Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is ...
Tourism in China: Policy and Development Since 1949
1st Edition
By David Airey, King Chong
May 18, 2017
Tourism in China has grown rapidly since the country started implementing its open-door policy in 1978. Tourism development is now an essential agenda item for the Chinese government's plan for economic & social growth. Policy and policy-making for tourism therefore provides the essential ...
Volunteer Tourism: The lifestyle politics of international development
1st Edition
By Jim Butcher, Peter Smith
May 16, 2017
Just a generation ago the notion that holidays should be invested with ethical and political significance would have sounded odd. Today it is part of the lifestyle political landscape. Volunteer tourism is indicative of the growth of lifestyle strategies intended to exhibit care and responsibility ...
Real Tourism: Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture
1st Edition
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By Claudio Minca, Tim Oakes
April 28, 2017
Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in ...
Tourism and National Identities: An international perspective
1st Edition
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By Elspeth Frew, Leanne White
May 19, 2016
By understanding tourist destinations through the lens of national identity, the tourist may develop a deeper appreciation of the destination. Further, tourism marketers and planners may be better equipped to promote and manage the destination, particularly with regard to expectations of the ...