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Dark tourism
Destination
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Event management
Festivals
Heritage
Hospitality
Thanatourism
Tourism
Tourist
Travel
Product details
- ISBN 9781412923972
- Weight: 1470g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2009
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"The strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of analyses, and distinction of its contributors, nothing is comparable."
- Professor Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis
- Professor Mike Crang, Durham University
Tourism studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies.
This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues and agenda of tourism studies, exploring:
- The evolution and position of tourism studies
- The relationship of tourism to culture
- The ecology and economics of tourism
- Special events and destination management
- Methodologies of study
- Tourism and transport
- Tourism and heritage
- Tourism and postcolonialism
- Global tourist business operations
Ranging from local to global issues, and from questions of management to the ethical dilemmas of tourism, this is a comprehensive, critically informed, constructively organized overview of the field. It draws together an inter-disciplinary group of contributors who are among the most celebrated names in the field and will be quickly recognized as a landmark in the new and expanding field of tourism studies.
I am Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage - a major inter-disciplinary research and graduate Institute working with the World Heritage Site and associated museums of Ironbridge.
My interests lie in how we produce and consume categories of heritage within changing cultural and cross-cultural contexts. I am particularly interested in how tourists experience the past and how tourism works with heritage to shape identities at the individual and collective level.
