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The last decade has seen widespread study of the relationship between tourism and the environment, given the growing importance of this sector in t...

This research-based monograph presents an introduction to the concept of film-induced tourism, building on the work of the seminal first edition. M...

This innovative, multifaceted series comprises authoritative reference handbooks on global tourism regions, research volumes, texts and monographs....

As German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carried cameras a...

Many people take for granted their annual two weeks in the sun or weekend away in a buzzing city, but how did it all happen? How did we fall in lov...

The British led the way in holidaymaking. This four-volume primary resource collection brings together a diverse range of texts on the various form...

This innovative work combines the fields of e-tourism adoption and strategic management, and identifies the combination of antecedents of technolog...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

Vietnam attracts visitors from various source markets and such diversity has become commonplace in major tourism receiving areas. The practice of i...

Ecotourism can be conceptualised as a reconciliation of tourism and environmentalism. The environmentalist dimension of ecotourism involves environ...

Tourism is the most important non-farm activity in the mountainous region. In mountain belts the aesthetic value of the land is by itself one of th...

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass en...

Tourism throughout the world raises environmental issues that are often concerned with conflicting rights and responsibilities: the inherent right ...

Direct flights to former imperial capitals, continued visits to the same tourist sites, and the emergence of tours dedicated to the imperial past a...

Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to See Rock City or similar tourist attractions. From ba...

The U.S. travel and tourism sector, the main economic and employment engine in a number of states, suffered a steep decline in 2008 and 2009 as the...

Sustainable Tourism VII contains papers presented at the seventh in a series of meetings on the topic organised by the Wessex Institute. The papers...

According to the American Hotel and Lodging Association, tourism is currently the third largest retail industry in the United States, behind automo...

This book focuses on tourism sectors and models the latest trends in tourism activity while providing a new vision for contemporary tourism economy...