A companion to tourism
edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall and Allan M. Williams
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
ISBN: 0631235647
DDC: 910.01
LCC: G155
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tourism: conceptualizations, institutions, and issues -- The
measurements of global tourism: old debates, new consensus, and
continuing challenges -- Tourist flows and the spatial distribution
of tourists -- Behavioral approaches in tourism research -- Toward a
political economy of tourism -- Cultural geographies of tourism --
Tourist practices and performances -- The cultural turn? Toward a
more critical economic geography of tourism -- Transnational
corporations, globalization, and tourism -- Entrepreneurial cultures
and small business enterprises in tourism -- Labor mobility and
market structure in tourism -- Transport and tourism -- The tourism
area life cycle in the twenty-first century -- Problematizing place
promotion -- Tourism, information technology, and development:
revolution or reinforcement? -- Theming, tourism, and fantasy city --
Whose tourist-historic city? Localizing the global and globalizing
the local -- Urban tourism: between the global and the local --
Postcolonialism, colonialism, and tourism -- Indigenous people and
tourism -- Tourism motivations and typologies -- Tourism, modernity,
and postmodernity -- Cultural circuits of tourism: commodities, place
and re-consumption -- Narratives of being elsewhere: tourism and
travel writing -- Gender and sexuality in tourism research -- The
souvenir: conceptualizing the object(s) of tourist consumption --
Tourism and landscape -- The beach as a liminal space -- Tourism,
shopping, and retailing: an axiomatic relationship? -- Tourism and
the countryside -- Mobility, tourism, and second homes -- Gaming and
tourism: issues for the new millennium -- Geographic perspectives on
event tourism -- Tourism and the natural environment -- Tourism and
touristic representations of nature -- Environmental impacts of
tourism -- Tourism and resource management -- National parks:
wilderness and culture -- Ecotourism: theory and practice -- Tourism,
sustainability, and social theory -- Tourism and the elusive paradigm
of sustainable development -- Tourism and public policy --
Partnerships, participation, and social science research in tourism
planning -- Local and regional tourism policy and power -- Tourism
communities and growth management -- Political boundaries and
regional cooperation in tourism -- GIS applications in the planning
and management of tourism -- Contemporary themes and challenges in
tourism research.
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