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.
Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Scientific Tourism: Researchers as Travellers
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Slocum, Carol Kline, Andrew Holden
May 25, 2017
As researchers in emerging economies, scientists are often the first foreign visitors to stay in remote rural areas and, on occasion, form joint venture ecotourism and community tourism projects or poverty alleviation schemes between local agencies or NGOs, the local community, and their home ...
Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink
May 25, 2017
Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example...
The Practice of Sustainable Tourism: Resolving the Paradox
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Hughes, David Weaver, Christof Pforr
May 25, 2017
Sustainable tourism is a widely used term that has accumulated considerable attention from researchers and policy makers over the past two decades. However, there is still an apparently wide gap between theory and practice in the area. Recent scholarly research has tended to focus on niche areas of...
Tourism in Brazil: Environment, Management and Segments
1st Edition
Edited
By Gui Lohmann, Dianne Dredge
May 25, 2017
Since the 1990s, tourism has become a major driver of economic activity and community development in Brazil. New policies and approaches, growing expertise and investment in tourism have brought significant transformation in tourism products, destination development and community involvement. In ...
Tourism, Religion and Pilgrimage in Jerusalem
1st Edition
By Kobi Cohen-Hattab, Noam Shoval
May 25, 2017
Jerusalem is a city with a singular nature. Home to three religions, it contains spiritual meaning for people the world over; it is at once a tourist destination and a location with a complex political reality. Tourism, therefore, is an integral part of Jerusalem’s development and its political ...
Understanding and Governing Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Psychological and Behavioural Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott A. Cohen, James Higham, Stefan Gössling, Paul Peeters
May 25, 2017
Despite a growing contribution to climate change, tourist and traveller behaviour is currently not acknowledged as an important sector within the development of climate policy. Whilst tourists may be increasingly aware of potential impacts on climate change there is evidence that most are ...
Adventure Tourism: Meanings, experience and learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Taylor, Peter Varley, Tony Johnston
May 24, 2017
Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting ...
Contested Spatialities, Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Janoschka, Heiko Haas
May 24, 2017
Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism represent a major trend in individualized societies worldwide, which is attracting a rapidly growing interest from the academic community. This volume for the first time, critically analyses the spatial, social and political consequences of such ...
Medical Tourism: The Ethics, Regulation, and Marketing of Health Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael C. Hall
May 24, 2017
Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services. Although spas and improved well-being have long been part of the tourist experience, health tourism now includes travel for medical purposes ranging from cosmetic and dental surgery ...
Mountaineering Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Ghazali Musa, James Higham, Anna Thompson- Carr
May 24, 2017
In May 1993 the British Mountaineering Council met to discuss the future of high altitude tourism. Of concern to attendees were reports of queues on Everest and reference was made to mountaineer Peter Boardman calling Everest an ‘amphitheater of the ego’. Issues raised included environmental and ...