Tourism category: 1805 books
Irish Tourism
Image, Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
For many years Ireland has been a popular tourist destination and tourism has been one of the most significant social, economic and cultural forces in Irish society. Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity engages with major national and international debates on contemporary tourism through cutting-edge...
by Alisha Ali, Andrew J. Frew
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the industry. There have been numerous texts written on sustainable tourism and the measures to mitigate and manage...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities,...
Health and Wellness Tourism
Emergence of a New Market Segment
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book aims to contribute to the literature and aid in developing a theoretical and practical framework in the area of health and wellness tourism. With contributions and research from different countries using a practical approach, this book is an essential source for students, researchers and...
Tourism, Culture and Heritage in a Smart Economy
Third International Conference IACuDiT, Athens 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book explores the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer a powerful tool for the development of smart tourism. Numerous examples are presented from across the entire spectrum of cultural and heritage tourism, including art, innovations in museum interpretation and...
Peace through Tourism
Promoting Human Security Through International Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Peace through tourism refers to a body of analysis which suggests tourism may contribute to cross-cultural understanding, tolerance and even peace between communities and nations. What has been largely missing to date is a sustained critique of the potential and capacities of tourism to foster global...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Across the globe, from established tourist destinations such as Venice or Prague to less traditional destinations in both the global North and South, there is mounting evidence that points to an increasing politicization of the topic of urban tourism. In some cities, residents and other stakeholders...
by Gui Santana
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Develop the untapped possibilities of this potential tourist El Dorado!
Given its size, location, cultural attractions, and natural beauty, South America gets far less of the international tourist dollar than it deserves. This valuable book identifies and explores the major issues that influence...
Tourism Governance
Critical Perspectives on Governance and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development. Governance encompasses the many ways in which societies and industries are governed, given permission or assistance, or steered by...
by Frances Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Tourism Reassessed: Blight or blessing? provides a balanced assessment of the effects of tourism on 20th century life and evaluates its significance in international relations.
Inspired by Sir George Young's book, Tourism: Blessing or blight?, published 25 years ago, this book places tourism...
Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals
Tourism, Local Communities and Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In 2000 United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs), committing the member nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of specific targets with a deadline of 2015. Related to the UN MDGs, tourism is increasingly seen as a promising tool...
Affective Tourism
Dark routes in conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book brings together, explores and expands socio-spatial affect, emotion and psychoanalytic drives in tourism for the first time. Affect is to be found in visceral intensities and resonances that circulate around and shape encounters between and amongst tourists, local tourism representatives...
Resilient Destinations and Tourism
Governance Strategies in the Transition towards Sustainability in Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Sustainability is one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector. Recently, the role of resilience thinking has been highlighted in sustainable development discussions as an alternative perspective. This book approaches these concepts as interwoven processes and looks at change...
Tourism Events in Asia
Marketing and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The roles and impacts of planned events within tourism are of increasing importance for destination competitiveness. Tourism Events in Asia is a unique contribution to the understanding of the impacts of events in the development planning, promotion and marketing of destinations in the rapidly growing...