Routledge Insights in Tourism Series
About the Book Series
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This series provides a forum for cutting edge insights into the latest developments in tourism research. It offers high quality monographs and edited collections that develop tourism analysis at both theoretical and empirical levels.
Tourism and Poverty Alleviation in Nature Conservation Areas: A Comparative Study Between Japan and Vietnam
1st Edition
By Nguyen Van Hoang
August 29, 2025
This timely book delves into the intricate relationship between tourism and poverty with a specific focus on nature conservation areas, using case studies of island economies in a developed country, Japan, and a developing one, Vietnam. The volume asserts that although the concept of pro-poor...
Building Sustainable Tourism Communities: A Blueprint for the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Edurne Jimenez Ruiz, Shivam Bhartiya, Volha Rudkouskaya
July 31, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive framework for fostering sustainable tourism communities, providing actionable strategies to balance economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity. It serves as a vital resource for professionals and scholars striving to create resilient tourism ...
Amber Tourism: From Attractions and Motivations to Sustainability and Territorial Branding
1st Edition
By Waldemar Cudny, Andrzej Stasiak, Bogdan Włodarczyk
July 16, 2025
This book explores the multi-faceted nature of amber tourism, illustrating how amber, both a natural and cultural resource, has evolved into a tourist attraction. Combining theoretical insights with diverse case studies, the book examines the key factors shaping its significance in the tourism ...
From the Tourist’s Gaze: Holiday Home Movies as Vernacular Sources for the Ecocritical Thought
1st Edition
By Pietro Agnoletto
June 27, 2025
From the Tourist’s Gaze bridges environmental humanities and amateur cinema studies, exploring tourism-induced environmental issues through the visual representations created by tourists themselves. The protagonists of the book are families from North-West Italy and their holiday films, captured ...
Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies: Storytelling, Heritage, Fantasy, and Folklore
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Lovell, Nitasha Sharma
June 06, 2025
This book explores the events, attractions, and places that comprise magical tourism. It showcases magical storytelling, ecologies, realities, entities, belief systems, cultural heritage, and rituals leading to spiritual, otherworldly, enchanting, mindful, interconnected, green, and dark ...
Developing Industrial and Mining Heritage Sites: Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park, Greece
1st Edition
By Taşkın Deniz Yıldız
May 27, 2025
Developing Industrial and Mining Heritage Sites offers a multifaceted examination of the challenges and opportunities in the development of industrial & mining heritage. It does so through the case study of Lavrion, Turkey, by examining the historical process of this former mining site which ...
Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism: Preservation, Miniaturization, and Replication
1st Edition
By Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, Andy Lihua Chen
December 19, 2024
This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China. Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of ...
Overtourism and Cruise Tourism in Emerging Destinations on the Arabian Peninsula
1st Edition
By Manuela Gutberlet
November 28, 2024
Cruise tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors worldwide. This book is the first of its kind to provide in-depth insights into the emergence of mega-cruise tourism in destinations on the Arabian Peninsula and its impacts on local communities, their spaces, cultures, identities and tourist ...
Developing the Frontiers of Casino Tourism: Progress and Prospects in East and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Ricardo C.S. Siu
October 28, 2024
This book explicates how the frontiers and path of development of casino tourism in various destinations in East and Southeast Asia are shaped by a set of social, cultural, political and economic forces and their interplays in a dynamic environment, and the prospects of this industry in different ...
Air Protection in the European Union Member States: From Laggards to Pushers
1st Edition
By Magdalena Tomala, Katarzyna Dośpiał-Borysiak
September 10, 2024
Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world’s top Green Leaders. Air Protection in the European Union Member States examines the EU members' air protection policies by taking into consideration wider political, social, and economic perspectives. The book is divided into ...
Potentials, Challenges and Prospects of Halal Tourism Development in Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Mohammed Jemal Ahmed, Atilla Akbaba
August 26, 2024
This book explores the potential of halal tourism development and its implementation in Ethiopia. The insights presented assist key stakeholders to make informed decisions concerning commercial strategy, profitability and feasibility of halal tourism from the secular perspective. This innovative ...
Metaverse and Tourism: Rethinking Implications on Virtual Reality
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Valeri, Ahmad Albattat
August 21, 2024
This innovative and timely book presents an in-depth analysis of how the metaverse revolutionizes tourism management, transforms consumer behaviour and motivates tourists to visit destinations. Adorned with illustrative tables, figures and diagrams throughout, the volume is data-led and explores ...