Tourism Industry

Increasingly, the tourism industry is looking towards sustainability, responding to public demand and local environmental policy. This monograph ex...

Destination Marketing offers the reader an integrated and comprehensive overview of the key challenges and constraints facing destination marketing...

A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environm...

This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things...

This accessible, up-to-date, comprehensive, and in-depth textbook introduces students and practitioners to the principles and practice of airport m...

This handbook provides students with an essential understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to work in the tourism, hospitality and events i...

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commo...

Theming Asia: Culture, Nature and Heritage in a Transforming Environment presents a theoretical, thematic and empirical examination of theming, the...

This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors fro...

Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of...

Events Management is a rapidly expanding discipline with growing student numbers however currently there are no specifically focused Research Metho...

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultur...

How do we understand human-nature relationships in tourism, or determine the consequences of these relationships to be good, bad, right, wrong, fai...

This book explores theoretical concepts of strategic promotion and place branding in cities. It outlines the issues associated with strategic manag...

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate...

Although blurred and heavily contested, the concept of tourist destination still deserves careful attention. Despite its unstable characteristics, ...

The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel ...

Tourism Marketing: In the Age of the Consumer offers a fresh and contemporary approach as an introductory textbook on tourism marketing. Six major ...

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTT...

Gadjeva uses Kyoto as a case study to explore the innovative mechanisms being used to promote Japanese culture and cultural properties since the ou...

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, 2nd Edition, offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the recent developments; conceptual, theoretica...

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow offers an introduction to the tourism policy process and how policies link to the strat...

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 ...

This book emphasises the work, the remarkable contributions, and the lifetime achievements of internationally respected scholars who have made life...

This book explores innovation in technology, products, and services in sport management in the Ibero-American region, one of the most rapidly devel...

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links the three crucial areas of tourism: impacts, planning and management.Tourism...

Co-creation has become a buzzword in many social science disciplines, in business and in tourism studies. Given the prominence of co-creation, surp...

Transport is an essential element of tourism, providing the vital link between the tourist generating areas and destinations. Good accessibility, w...

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, inc...

This book contains a collection of articles that include both case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenge...

Destination Marketing offers the reader an integrated and comprehensive overview of the key challenges and constraints facing destination marketing...

Heritage tourism is a global multi-million-dollar phenomenon, influencing national, regional and local cultural identities. Hong Kong finds itself ...

Policy and planning are particularly important in tourism due to their multi-faceted nature and the complexity of inter-organisational relations an...

Visitors to Thailands urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made a...

Academically complex and challenging to apply, development and planning are increasingly relevant to the growing tourism industry. This collection ...

The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in th...

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range of ethical i...

Tourism gentrification is a critical shaping force of socio-economic and contemporary urban landscapes. This book aims to be the first substantive ...

This book addresses many of the key themes that are seen as challenges to achieve sustainability and to mitigate climate change impacts in the near...

Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information...

Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of dev...

Taste is a core concept for the social sciences and an orienting notion in everyday practice. It is of equal relevance to academics and laypeople a...

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographi...

A useful introduction to the critical study of tourism, this brief text applies semiotics and cultural theory to deal with some of our most iconic ...

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away...

With the rise of post-truth and fake news, a thorough examination of authenticity has never been so relevant. This book explores the geography of a...

Sexual spaces, normally inhabited by (mostly) female sex workers, are understood as masculine spaces, and positioned for and around male consumers....

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big bu...