Tourism and crisis / / Gustav Visser and Sanette Ferreira

• Autore: Visser Gustav
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 910.68/4
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Management; Crisis management
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FerreiraSanette
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Tourism and Crisis; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Tourism and crisis: a never-ending story?; 2 Financial crises in tourism and beyond: connecting economic, resource and environmental securities; 3 Much ado about nothing? Tourism and the financial crisis; 4 South Africa's destination image: media framing and representational crises; 5 Hallmark events as a counter to economic downturn: the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup; 6 Impacts of the global financial crisis on African tourism: a Tourism Confidence Index analysis ; 7 Hibernating economic decline? Tourism and labour market change in Europe's northern periphery8 The crisis of induced uneven development through South African tourism marketing strategies; 9 Responses to climate change mitigation during recessionary times: perspectives from accommodation providers in the Southwest of England; 10 Tourism-led development and backward linkages: evidence from the agriculture-tourism nexus in southern Africa; 11 Ethnic tourism in Kaokoland, northwest Namibia: cure for all or the next crisis for the OvaHimba?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However, despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality although in some cases in a different form. The book investigates different kinds of ""crisis"" and unpacks understandings of crisis in relation to various components in the contemporary tourism system. The aim of this book therefore is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and
• Titolo autorizzato: Tourism and crisis
• ISBN: 0-203-11404-3; 1-299-16095-6; 1-136-28945-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462705303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management