Tourism has been the fastest growing industry of the last two decades as disposable incomes grow throughout the world. This series highlights central and topical issues relating to tourism including:
the management and organization of tourism
tourism and development
the benefits and disadvantages of the effects of tourism.
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By Richard Shipway, Alan Fyall
May 18, 2017
This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first ...
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By Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, Annette Pritchard
May 18, 2017
In today’s increasingly complex tourism environment, decision-making requires a rounded, well-informed view of the whole. Critical distance should be encouraged, consultation and intellectual rigour should be the norm amongst managers and there needs to be a radical shift in our approach to ...
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By Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson
May 18, 2017
This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as ...
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By Charles McIntyre
May 18, 2017
Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of ...
By Francis Noe, Muzaffer Uysal, Vincent Magnini
May 07, 2015
Customer satisfaction and loyalty in the tourism sector is highly dependent upon the behaviours of front-line service providers. Service is about people, how they relate to one another, fulfill each other’s needs and ultimately care for each other. Yet surprisingly there are few or any books which ...
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By Bruce Prideaux, Dean Carson
April 23, 2015
Since the post World War Two boom in private automobile ownership, Drive Tourism has transformed the tourism landscape by facilitating dispersal and the growth of attractions and tourism related infrastructure beyond the zones that had previously emerged around seaports and railway terminals. The ...
By Haiyan Song
January 13, 2012
Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers as...
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By Donald Macleod, Steven Gillespie
October 04, 2010
Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region, representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry. That said, it remains highly sensitive and fragile in terms of environmental, social, economic and cultural impacts. This volume focuses on rural Europe as a ...
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By Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone
October 04, 2010
To consume tourism is to consume experiences. An understanding of the ways in which tourists experience the places and people they visit is therefore fundamental to the study of the consumption of tourism. Consequently, it is not surprising that attention has long been paid in the tourism ...
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By Metin Kozak, Juergen Gnoth, Luisa L.A Andreu
September 10, 2009
This volume provides original insight into the operational opportunities, challenges and constraints in managing Tourism Destination Marketing. It explores how the various tourist destination systems including tourist, places (as seen by the tourist), public and private tourism organisations and ...