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
Tourist Shopping Villages: Forms and Functions
1st Edition
By Laurie Murphy, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Philip L. 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, ...
Destinations: Cultural Landscapes of Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg Ringer
November 24, 2011
This book presents new directions both for tourism and cultural landscape studies in geography, crossing the traditional boundaries between the research of geographers and scholars of the tourism industry.Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, the ...
Tourism and Gastronomy
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Mette Hjalager, Greg Richards
August 12, 2011
In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on tourism experiences and attractions related to food. In many cases eating out while on holiday includes the 'consumption' of a local heritage, comparable to what is experienced when visiting historical sites and museums.Despite this increasing ...
New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcella Daye, Donna Chambers, Sherma Roberts
July 29, 2011
The Caribbean is one of the most tourism dependent regions of the world. This edited volume extends beyond the frontiers of normative perspectives of tourism development to incorporate "new" ideas and perspectives that relate to the socio-cultural, political and economic realities of these ...
Developments in Tourism Research
1st Edition
Edited
By David Airey, John Tribe
October 17, 2007
This book aims to be a showcase for cutting edge research offering a high-edited selection of the best paper submitted to the 2006 tourism conference at the University of Surrey, which itself is a celebration of 40 years of tourism education at the University. The emphasis of the book is on ...
Battlefield Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Ryan
August 29, 2007
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these...
The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Irena Ateljevic, Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan
March 21, 2007
New approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable ‘critical turn’ – a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. The chapters in this volume reflect this emerging critical school of tourism studies and represent a coordinated effort of tourism ...