Routledge Advances in Tourism
About the Book Series
Tourism has been the fastest growing industry of the last decade as disposable incomes grew throughout the world. This series highlights state of the art and cutting edge Tourism research in the following areas:
* the management and organization of tourism
* tourism and development
* the benefits and the disadvantages of the effects of tourism
Mediterranean Tourism: Facets of Socioeconomic Development and Cultural Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Yorgos Apostolopoulos, Lila Leontidou, Philippos Loukissas
April 02, 2014
This book comments on the complexities of Mediterranean tourism, with contributions from researchers, consultants, managers and advisors from thirteen countries. It is an excellent reference tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as industry practitioners, for the examination of ...
Tourism in China: Destination, Cultures and Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Ryan, Gu Huimin
August 06, 2013
China is forecast to be the primary tourist destination and tourist-generating country by 2020. However, much of the writing on tourism in China has come from people within the English academic world who are not involved in the issues related to Chinese tourism development. This book provides ...
Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development: International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By David Leslie
June 24, 2013
The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of tourism considered more environmentally friendly: green, eco-tourism, and sustainable tourism. Much of the literature that has...
Tourism and Poverty
1st Edition
By Regina Scheyvens
June 24, 2013
Tourism and Poverty addresses a critical question facing many academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies around the world: can tourism work as a tool to overcome poverty? This book is the first to present a focused description and critique of the issues ...
Tourist Mobility and Advanced Tracking Technologies
1st Edition
By Noam Shoval, Michal Isaacson
June 24, 2013
The remarkable developments in tracking technologies over the past decade have opened up a wealth of possibilities in terms of research into tourist spatial behaviour. To date, most research in the field has been based on data derived from less objective – hence methodologically ...
Managing and Marketing Tourist Destinations: Strategies to Gain a Competitive Edge
1st Edition
By Metin Kozak, Seyhmus Baloglu
September 05, 2012
Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services. The basis of competitive advantage shifts from tourism resources only (destination marketing) to a location-based or city-wide integrated management (place marketing). In this book, tourism scholars Metin Kozak and Seyhmus ...
Tourist Shopping Villages: Forms and Functions
1st Edition
By Laurie Murphy, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Philip Pearce
September 05, 2012
Shopping is perhaps the most universal of tourist activities. Tourists form a separate retailing segment from the general population and place importance on different products and product attributes, contributing billions of dollars each year for both the private and public sector by which retail ...
Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life
1st Edition
By Philip Pearce, Sebastian Filep, Glenn Ross
September 05, 2012
Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet. Yet there is a lack of specific attention to the ways in which we can better understand and evaluate the relationship between well-being and travel. The recent ...
The Advanced Econometrics of Tourism Demand
1st Edition
By Haiyan Song, Stephen F. Witt, Gang Li
March 16, 2012
Tourism demand is the foundation on which all tourism-related business decisions ultimately rest. Governments and companies such as airlines, tour operators, hotels, cruise ship lines, and recreation facility providers are interested in the demand for their products by tourists. The success of many...
Handbook of Tourist Behavior: Theory & Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Metin Kozak, Alain Decrop
February 23, 2012
In today’s highly competitive and global economy, understanding tourist behavior is imperative to success. Tourist behavior has become a cornerstone of any marketing strategy and action. Choosing, buying and consuming tourism/travel products and services includes a range of psycho-social processes ...
Sustainable Tourism Futures: Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring and Innovations
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Gössling, C. Michael Hall, David Weaver
February 23, 2012
A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environmental change, including climate change; increasing fuel prices; and growing criticism from environmental and social interest groups are posing ...
Creating Island Resorts
1st Edition
By Brian King
December 08, 2011
This work studies tropical island resorts, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. The author includes, but goes beyond the more commonly encountered marketing and economic analyses of resort destinations, by examining social, cultural, mythical, environmental, ...