Tourism Industry

The Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model is one of the most cited articles in the tourism literature, and since its publication has continued to be...

Embedded in and interrelated with its broader socio-economic and political context, the tourism system currently faces profound challenges. Against...

This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications...

This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications...

This book explores the intersection of culture, sustainability, and tourism. Also, it explores the importance of integrating cultural heritage pres...

This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet inter...

This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet inter...

Cities are the dominant geographical focus of business and leisure tourism travel, and cities everywhere are regenerating and reinventing themselve...

Cities are the dominant geographical focus of business and leisure tourism travel, and cities everywhere are regenerating and reinventing themselve...

This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UNs sustainable development goals. It examines the ori...

This book is a fast-paced and thorough re-evaluation of what heritage tourism means to the people who experience it. It draws on contemporary think...

This book is the first to examine the depth, complexity and uniqueness of global Christian pilgrimage, travel and tourism, and how they manifest in...

Howard Rosenstein wasn't just opening the first dive school in Sharm El-Sheikh; he was cracking open a hidden world in Sinai. This true story dives...

Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie see...

Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the e...

This volume presents an international selection of invited contributions on policy and best practice in accessible tourism, reflecting current prac...

The family remains at the emotional heart of society, and makes up a significant proportion of the tourism market. However, the concept of family h...

In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of ...

In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of ...

The family remains at the emotional heart of society, and makes up a significant proportion of the tourism market. However, the concept of family h...

Clients are consistently demanding lower prices at the time of each purchase and companies can only react by reducing costs. This volume shows that...

The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multi...

Sugar as a global commodity has shaped our world, impacting cultures and influencing cuisine. The heritage of sugar is investigated in the context ...

This book deals with tourism, popular culture and everyday life in Japan. It offers some interesting statistics about Japanese life and society, di...

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates ...

* An ontology of the study of planned events and the professional practice of event management and event tourism; * User friendly explanations and ...

This book combines academic analysis and critical exploration to examine national narratives in the context of tourism and events around the world....

This book investigates home and homeland as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between to...

Small tourism businesses form the majority of the employment opportunities within the tourism industry. However, many texts seem to overlook this ...

In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the fie...

Complete coverage of all aspects of dining room service, with real-life examples and updated information on technology in the industry. In The Pro...

This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on three areas of vibrant and timely scholarly enquiry: the uniquene...

This book combines academic analysis and critical exploration to examine national narratives in the context of tourism and events around the world....

This book examines science fictions theoretical and ontological backgrounds and how science fiction applies to the future of tourism. It recreates ...

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key...

This book offers insights into the demands made on staff in service encounters in tourism, events and hospitality roles. Using data from research c...

This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an international and interdisciplinary framewo...

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing ...

This volume seeks to expose and illustrate new approaches and thinking in qualitative methods that are being developed and implemented in tourism r...

This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour ca...

This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the co...

This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomi...

Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nations history and culture, but roads are...

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conce...

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conce...

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key...