New Directions in Tourism Analysis: New Directions in Tourism Analysis
About the Book Series
Although tourism is becoming increasingly popular as both a taught subject and an area for empirical investigation, the theoretical underpinnings of many approaches have tended to be eclectic and somewhat underdeveloped. However, recent developments indicate that the field of tourism studies is beginning to develop in a more theoretically informed manner, but this has not yet been matched by current publications. The aim of this series is to fill this gap with high quality monographs or edited collections that seek to develop tourism analysis at both theoretical and substantive levels using approaches which are broadly derived from allied social science disciplines such as Sociology, Social Anthropology, Human and Social Geography, and Cultural Studies. As tourism studies covers a wide range of activities and sub fields, certain areas such as Hospitality Management and Business, which are already well provided for, would be excluded. The series will therefore fill a gap in the current overall pattern of publication. Suggested themes to be covered by the series, either singly or in combination, include - consumption; cultural change; development; gender; globalisation; political economy; social theory; sustainability.
Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Robinson, David Picard
February 27, 2017
What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment? What are the inner contours of ...
The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
1st Edition
By Duncan Light
February 09, 2017
For many in the West, Romania is synonymous with Count Dracula. Since the publication of Bram Stoker's famous novel in 1897 Transylvania (and by extension, Romania) has become inseparable in the Western imagination with Dracula, vampires and the supernatural. Moreover, since the late 1960s Western ...
Sex Tourism in Africa: Kenya's Booming Industry
1st Edition
By Wanjohi Kibicho
November 16, 2016
Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism ...
Landscape, Tourism, and Meaning
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle M. Metro-Roland, Daniel C. Knudsen, Charles E. Greer
November 10, 2016
How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist studies. Arguing that in any view of the ...
Cultural Tourism and Sustainable Local Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp
October 31, 2016
With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance. Cultural heritage, such as museums, churches, historical landscapes, urban parks, and exhibitions attract many visitors and countries, regions and cities which house such historic-cultural...
Tourism Destination Development: Turns and Tactics
1st Edition
Edited
By Arvid Viken, Brynhild Granås
October 19, 2016
Although blurred and heavily contested, the concept of ’tourist destination’ still deserves careful attention. Despite its unstable characteristics, ’destination’ is a central and meaningful term in play among all parties in the field of tourism, including tourists, tourism operators, and ...
Planning for Ethnic Tourism
1st Edition
By Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall
September 09, 2016
Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social benefits it can also significantly impact ...
Development Tourism: Lessons from Cuba
1st Edition
By Rochelle Spencer
September 08, 2016
Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a remarkable approach to tourism, one which often compels tourists to become agents of development ...
Sex, Tourism and the Postcolonial Encounter: Landscapes of Longing in Egypt
1st Edition
By Jessica Jacobs
September 08, 2016
Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday. Broadening the scope of issues involved, it examines the link between these holiday romances and a much wider ...
Social Media in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality: Theory, Practice and Cases
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianna Sigala, Evangelos Christou
September 08, 2016
Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information about tourism suppliers and tourism destinations. Presenting cutting-edge theory, research and case studies investigating Web 2.0 applications and ...
Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning
1st Edition
Edited
By Dianne Dredge, John Jenkins
September 08, 2016
Analyses of contemporary tourism planning and policymaking practice at local to global scales is lacking and there is an urgent need for research that informs theory and practice. Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically-informed, international case studies constructed through storytelling...
Tourists, Signs and the City: The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape
1st Edition
By Michelle M. Metro-Roland
September 08, 2016
Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make ...