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.
Sports Event Management: The Caribbean Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Tyson, Leslie-Ann Jordan, David Truly
September 06, 2016
Exploring sports event management from a Caribbean, small island developing state perspective, this volume uses the events of the recently held Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) as a launching pad for identifying best practices and the way forward. The CWC 2007 was the first time in any sport, a ...
New Directions in Rural Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesley Roberts, Derek Hall, Mitchell Morag
August 26, 2016
Although there has been an increasing interest in rural tourism in terms of research, training and teaching in recent years, its conceptualization and the relationships between concept and strategy are still poorly represented and not well understood. The need for such a critical understanding is ...
Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink
1st Edition
By Priscilla Boniface
August 26, 2016
Along with basic practical reasons, our practices concerning food and drink are driven by context and environment, belief and convention, aspiration and desire to display - in short, by culture. Similarly, culture guides how tourism is used and operates. This book examines food and drink tourism, ...
Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
1st Edition
By Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang
September 21, 2009
With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights ...
The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography
1st Edition
Edited
By David Picard, Mike Robinson
July 10, 2009
Photographs create visual narratives of experiences, places, peoples and objects that collectively and individually comprise the tourist gaze. Photography is acknowledged as having an important role in the determining of places and spaces, the construction and re-construction of identities, and the...
Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry: Beating the Odds?
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Hosie, Christof Pforr
February 28, 2009
An important challenge facing tourism is the anticipation of the threat of crises precipitated by natural and people-made catastrophes, and being adequately prepared for them. Despite an increase in research on this issue there is still a considerable lack of clarity on the impacts of crises on the...
The Challenge of Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Harry Coccossis, Alexandra Mexa
April 28, 2004
Planning and management for tourism growth is becoming essential in the context of sustainable development. Particularly so since many tourist destinations are facing severe pressures from tourist flows and activities. Such pressures are evidenced in terms of dysfunctions (congestion, environmental...
Tourism and Economic Development: Case Studies from the Indian Ocean Region
1st Edition
Edited
By R.N. Ghosh, M.A.B. Siddique
May 28, 2003
Tourism has increasingly become a vital element in the economic development of the Indian Ocean region. This volume brings together leading tourism and economics experts from the region to discuss the wide range of problems and issues raised by the increasing significance of tourism such as: ...