A companion to tourism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (642 p.)
• Disciplina: 910.01; 910/.01
• Soggetto topico: Tourism
• Altri autori: LewAlan A HallColin Michael <1961-> WilliamsAllan M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to Tourism; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 Tourism: Conceptualizations, Institutions, and Issues; Part II Perspectives on Tourism; 2 The Measurement of Global Tourism: Old Debates, New Consensus, and Continuing Challenges; 3 Tourist Flows and the Spatial Distribution of Tourists; 4 Behavioral Approaches in Tourism Research; 5 Toward a Political Economy of Tourism; 6 Cultural Geographies of Tourism; 7 Tourist Practices and Performances; Part III Producing Tourism and Tourism Spaces ; 8 The Cultural Turn? Toward a More Critical Economic Geography of Tourism9 Transnational Corporations, Globalization, and Tourism; 10 Entrepreneurial Cultures and Small Business Enterprises in Tourism; 11 Labor Mobility and Market Structure in Tourism; 12 Transport and Tourism; 13 The Tourism Area Life Cycle in the Twenty-First Century; Part IV Globalization and Contested Places; 14 Problematizing Place Promotion; 15 Tourism, Information Technology, and Development: Revolution or Reinforcement?; 16 Theming, Tourism, and Fantasy City ; 17 Whose Tourist-Historic City? Localizing the Global and Globalizing the Local18 Urban Tourism: Between the Global and the Local; 19 Postcolonialism, Colonialism, and Tourism; 20 Indigenous People and Tourism; Part V Tourists, Values, and Practices; 21 Tourist Motivation and Typologies; 22 Tourism, Modernity, and Postmodernity; 23 Cultural Circuits of Tourism: Commodities, Place, and Re-consumption; 24 Narratives of Being Elsewhere: Tourism and Travel Writing; 25 Gender and Sexuality in Tourism Research; 26 The Souvenir: Conceptualizing the Object(s) of Tourist Consumption ; Part VI Tourism, Place, Space, and Forms27 Tourism and Landscape; 28 The Beach as a Liminal Space; 29 Tourism, Shopping, and Retailing: An Axiomatic Relationship?; 30 Tourism and the Countryside; 31 Mobility, Tourism, and Second Homes; 32 Gaming and Tourism: Issues for the New Millennium; 33 Geographic Perspectives on Event Tourism; Part VII Tourism, the Environment, and Society; 34 Tourism and the Natural Environment; 35 Tourism and Touristic Representations of Nature; 36 Environmental Impacts of Tourism; 37 Tourism and Resource Management; 38 National Parks: Wilderness and Culture ; 39 Ecotourism: Theory and Practice40 Tourism, Sustainability, and Social Theory; 41 Tourism and the Elusive Paradigm of Sustainable Development; Part VIII Policies, Planning, and Governance; 42 Tourism and Public Policy; 43 Partnerships, Participation, and Social Science Research in Tourism Planning; 44 Local and Regional Tourism Policy and Power; 45 Tourism Communities and Growth Management; 46 Political Boundaries and Regional Cooperation in Tourism; 47 GIS Applications in the Planning and Management of Tourism; Part IX Conclusions; 48 Contemporary Themes and Challenges in Tourism Research ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for tourism. A critical overview of current research in tourism studies. Offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in tourism studies in the light of recent developments, such as terrorist attacks, SARS and the financial failure of airlines. Comprises 48 specially commissioned essays,
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to tourism
• ISBN: 1-78268-830-7; 1-281-32266-0; 9786611322663; 0-470-70749-6; 0-470-75227-0; 0-470-75226-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996218283403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to geography.