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Book SynopsisThis book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is threatening society, and makes suggestions on what the impact will be and how tourism will be changed to integrate with the new socio-economics of a newly emerging society with its novel peculiar challenges and opportunities in a post-energy era. The book draws on the views of leading thinkers in tourism and considers a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives facing the tourism industry for the first time in one volume: dwindling energy, new technology, security (like war and terrorism), political economy, sustainability, and human resources. By critically reviewing these social and economic challenges in a global scale, the book helps to create a comprehensive view of future tourism in the unfolding and challenging society of the third millennium.This innovative and significant volume will be valTrade Review"a useful contribution to the literature on the nature and direction of tourism and a balance to some of the current simplistic statements often made about tourism, present and future." – Richard Butler, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, published in Annals of Leisure researchTable of Contents1. Introduction: What Future for Tourism? Part 1: Global Changes and Their Impact on Future Tourism 2. "Peak Oil" Confronts Society and Tourism: A Futuristic View 3. The Political Economy of Future Tourism Part 2: Political and Social Trends and Future Tourism 4. Security and the Future of Tourism 5. Wellbeing, Equity, Sustainable Development and Social Tourism in Twenty-first Century Europe 6. Shapers and Shifters for the Future of Travel and Tourism 7. Tourism and Quality of Life 8. Through a Glass Darkly: The Future of Tourism is Personal Part 3: Managerial Issues and Future Tourism 9. Tourism in a Technology-Dependent World 10. Human Resource Issues in the New Millennium 11. Sustainability: An Issue for the Tourism Industry in the New Millennium 12. Tomorrow’s Tourist and the Case Study of New Zealand Part 4: Concluding Thoughts 13. Future Tourism: Where to Now?

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Book SynopsisThe Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainable tourism, crucially combining both theoretical and practical approaches to equip students with the tools to successfully manage a sustainable tourism business or destination. Covering a range of crucial topics such as mass tourism, alternative tourism, human capital management, and many more, this book incorporates a global curriculum that widens the sustainable tourism debate to include theoretical perspectives, applied research, best-practice frameworks, business tools, and case studies, facilitating a more comprehensive sustainable tourism educational strategy. Information on how to effectively implement strategies that can be applied to business environments, entrepreneurship, and job skills to enhance career preparation is at the forefront of this textbook. Highly illustrated and with an interactive companion website including bonus learning Trade Review‘This text provides an innovative and comprehensive treatment of sustainable tourism development and management – creating a very useful approach for educators and students, excellent theoretical foundations and relevant cases. I especially value the unique inclusion of relevant management perspectives; a must for programs in tourism management. The comprehensive treatment of business skills and management create an integrated skill-based text for the next generation of tourism professionals dedicated to sustainable development!’Kelly S. Bricker, PhD, Director of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, Salt Lake City, Utah‘This textbook is a must-read for researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of sustainable tourism and destination management. It includes not only theoretical and management perspectives on various topics, but also reflective questions that stimulate readers’ critical thinking on the issues. The well-written and easily accessible contents allow readers to use the acquired knowledge easily and readily in the implementation of sustainable tourism policies across various contexts.’Dr. Robin Nunkoo, Associate Professor, University of Mauritius‘This is a good, sound instructional text in which the authors have demonstrated considerable breath of knowledge in the business aspects of sustainable tourism within the global context, relating them to best-practice frameworks to support successful skill development and provided an excellent analysis of them, based upon a clear rationale and focus.’Professor Peter Dieke, PhD, Makerere University Business School, Kampala, UgandaTable of Contents1. Introducing sustainable tourism 2. Understanding capital 3. Globalization, localism, and sustainability 4. Governance of sustainable tourism 5. The sustainable traveler 6. Mass tourism 7. Alternative tourism 8. Marketing for sustainability 9. Supply and value chain management 10. Certification 11. Human capital management 12. Visitor management 13. The future of sustainable tourism

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Book SynopsisA timely and up-to-date go-to reference work for business events, The Routledge Handbook of Business Events explores and critically evaluates the key debates and controversies inherent to this rapidly expanding subject of study and industry.The volume brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on management aspects as well as economic, social and environmental impacts and external factors such as transportation. The book incorporates the varied expertise of some 30 expert authors to provide a definitive collection of statements in this field, accompanied by illustrative and engaging case studies embodying real-life scenarios and examples on an international scale.This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers and academics of Events, as well as those of related studies in particular Tourism, Hospitality, Sport, LeisuTable of ContentsIntroduction, Part 1: The World of Business Events, 1. Research Directions in Business Events: An Evaluation of Literature Reviews 1996-2019, 2. Building National Capabilities for Business Events, 3. Strategic Event Planning, 4. The Distribution Channel of Business Events, Part 2: Business Events Impact, 5. The Impact of Business Events, 6. Social Value of B2B Tradeshows, 7. The Importance of Business Events for Rural Women in Business, 8. Individual Attendees’ Value of Business Events, Part 3: Business Events and Sustainability, 9. The Application of Corporate Social Responsibility Principles to Corporate Meetings, 10. Sustainability Developments at Conference Centres: A Greener Future for Business Events, 11. Alternative Venues for Business Events, 12. The Role of Convention Visitor Bureaus in Business Events, 13. Business Events and Sustainability Policies, 14. Indigenous Business Events and Organisational Legitimacy, Part 4: Business Events and Technology, 15. Smart Technologies and the Future of Business Events, 16. Technology Innovation in Business Events, 17. An Overview of Virtual Business Events: Can Everyone Hear Me?, Part 5: Business Events Marketing and Sponsorship, 18. Business Events Enhancing Destination Competitiveness, 19. Business Events as a Differentiation Strategy for Tourist Destinations, 20. The Role of DMOs in Business Events, 21. Approaches to Business Event Sponsorship: The Case of Agrochemex, 22. Social Media Marketing for Business Events, Part 6: Business Events Operations, 23. Business Events and Hospitality, 24. Business Events and Chinese Hospitality, 25. Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events, 26. Risk and Crisis Management and Business Events: A Destination Perspective. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisHospitality: An Introduction introduces the concept of hospitality to the readers and presents hospitality as a service industry. It demonstrates travel and tourism as an impeccable part of the hospitality business and discusses the operational development of the hotel and lodging industry. Also discussed in the book is the food service industry and the role of technology in hospitality. The book gives much information on the aspect of leisure and recreation in hospitality and details the various trends and future aspects of the industry.

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Book Synopsis"Using a rich set of detailed case studies, this volume furnishes the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the private sector in conservation areas. For researchers of tourism, development studies and biodiversity conservation this book is a new and important benchmark in African scholarship." -Christian M. Rogerson, Research Professor, School of Tourism & Hospitality, University of Johannesburg. "This is an impressive book that will make an important contribution to the literature on private-sector involvement in the delivery of tourism services in parks and protected areas in Africa." - Dr. Paul F. J. Eagles, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo. Tourism in Africa's protected and conserved areas involves partnerships and interactions between numerous stakeholders such as governments, communities, NGOs, the private sector and academics. Through the use of 32 comprehensive case studies from 11 African countries, this book presents guidelines to ensure optimal benefits for stakeholders as well as promoting the sustainability of tourism in Africa. It includes descriptions of the various models for the private sector to engage in tourism in conservation areas in Africa, such as pure private sector ownership, joint ventures, tripartite agreements and government leases. End-to-end coverage of the processes used to develop these partnerships is provided, as well as best practices for the private sector engaging in tourism. The book provides guidance on identifying the most suitable private sector tourism options based on guidelines of conditions and desired outcomes, to promote the long-term sustainability of African tourism in protected areas. Key features include: - The first book to provide a detailed analysis of private sector involvement and partnerships in tourism in Africa. - Includes best practice examples to develop tourism partnerships with the private sector. - Highlights important tools to enhance the sustainability of tourism in Africa, involving numerous stakeholders. This book is recommended for academics, students and practitioners working in sustainable tourism, including community, private sector and government stakeholders.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Background 3: Private Sector Partnership Options 4: Joint Venture Lodge Ownership Partnership Options 5: Processes to Develop Accommodation Partnerships in Protected Areas 6: Best Practices: Lessons Learned from the Case Studies 7: Conclusion 8: Supplementary Material

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Book SynopsisFully revised, Tourism, 2nd edition covers aspects of tourism from a modern perspective, providing students with a range of theoretical and research-based explanations, supported by examples, case studies and unique insights from industry representatives. The many facets of tourism management are presented in a style that is as relevant for 1st year students as it is for postgraduates. The text offers introductory definitions and detailed discussions of contemporary issues that recognize current teaching practice around the world. Covering topics such as policy and planning, heritage management, leisure management, event management and hospitality management, the book tackles the practical elements of academic tourism such as infrastructure management and economic development, together with other important contemporary issues such as sustainable development and post-tourists. This new edition also features: · Updated and new contemporary case studies, including countries such as Egypt, Croatia and The Philippines · New material on · tourism and sustainability including the SDGs · Unions in the travel and tourism sectors · Gender issues in travel and tourism · Augmented reality and robots · Prosumption and co-creation · Contributions from professionals working in the tourism industry for a real-world perspective · A fresh new layout and full colour text and figures that make it easy to locate information and aid learning · Links to new video material throughout, which provide easy access to additional content for further study This will be an essential text for all students of travel and tourism at all levels of study.Table of ContentsPART I: THE TOURISM INDUSTRY Chapter 1: The Tourism Industry Chapter 2: Economics of Tourism Chapter 3: Tourism Employees PART II: TOURISM PEOPLE Chapter 4: The Tourist Chapter 5: Tourism & Society Chapter 6: The Travel Industry PART III: TOURISM PLACES Chapter 7: Tourism Geography Chapter 8: The Tourism Destination Chapter 9: Tourism Products PART IV: TOURISM MANAGEMENT Chapter 10: Business Management Chapter 11: Managing Tourism Chapter 12: Tourism Marketing Chapter 13: Tourism Strategy PART V: TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Chapter 14: Tourism Policy & Planning Chapter 15: Sustainable Development PART VI: TOURISM FUTURES Chapter 16: Tourism Futures

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Book SynopsisThis edited text, intended to support a research-informed approach to learning and teaching, presents an array of concepts, collaborations and in-depth cases related to managing events, festivals and the visitor economy. Authors offer an array of philosophical, political, cultural, and ethical perspectives on how to achieve this across a range of contexts, from Cambodia, China, Egypt to the British cathedral city of Lincoln. Though recognising individual difference, each chapter unites in their common pursuit of supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). This is significant as utilising the UNSDGs as a normative organising framework for how we all think about, plan, and manage a 'good' visitor economy is increasingly ubiquitous. It is with this in mind that each chapter provides explicit links to the UNSDGs and policy and/or practical implications, along with a series of critical self-assessment questions to reflect on the chapter's key arguments. This collection aims to satiate what appears to be an increasing appetite of readers and students alike who seek exposure to rigorous debate in and out of the classroom.Table of Contents1: Managing the visitor economy: concepts, collaborations and cases 2: Studying the complexities of events and festivals and relationships to the visitor economy 3: Creating dementia-friendly destinations in Scotland 4: (Re)visiting spaces of home: German Heimat tourists ‘returning’ to Timisoara, Romania 5: Re-inventing ‘Ice on Whyte’: how a mature winter festival sought renewal in the visitor economy 6: Flagship attraction development and destination competitiveness: the Grand Egyptian Museum, Egypt 7: Understanding generational differences in multiple place identities and the visitor economy: the case of migrants’ descendants in China 8: Managing overtourism at UNESCO sites: the case of Angkor Wat, Cambodia 9: Locals’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction with overtourism and events in Winchester, UK 10: Assessing Malta’s overtourism 11: The impact of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the visitor economy: a human rights perspective 12: Collaborating with students to provide consultancy to Lincoln City football club and the visitor economy 13: Using a student as producers approach to study visitor experiences in relation to the Magna Carta Exhibition in Lincoln, UK

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Book SynopsisRocks of Ages: Developing Rock Art Tourism in Israel presents the findings of an interdisciplinary project aimed at safeguarding the future of this unique resource. Cultural heritage in the Negev desert region of Israel is potentially under threat from a number of social, political and economic activities such as militarization, settlement and tourism, resulting in significant environmental change. The cultural heritage and archaeology extend back at least a quarter of a million years but also include a unique engraved rock art assemblage that dates to at least 3000 BCE. These engravings form a clear association with other relic monuments including prehistoric and protohistoric settlements, agricultural and irrigation regimes, and the remnants of a nomadic way of life. But how can this unique cultural heritage survive in the long-term? In December 2017, an international conference was held at Mitzpe Ramon attended by academics, heritage professionals and individuals from the tourism industry. The meeting centered on the dissemination of the findings from the Integrative Multilateral Planning to Advance Rock Art Tourism (IMPART) research project. Formed from an interdisciplinary team of Israeli-Italian scholars, the IMPART researchers collaborated to conduct archaeo-ecological and socio-touristic research with the goal of establishing an authoritative set of sustainable best practices for effectively valorizing Negev rock art. Based on the successful outcome of this research dynamic, the book is organized into 12 thought-provoking chapters that identify and analyze the cultural heritage, archaeology and tourism geographies that fill the multilayered Negev landscape. The focus throughout is to find ways to preserve this unique heritage for future generations while striking a balance between these fragile resources and the pressures for development of the desert.Table of ContentsForeword – Steven A. Rosen ; Preface ; Part I: The Dynamics of Negev Rock Art Tourism ; Rock Art in the Negev – IMPART ; Negev Highlands Tourism – Dan Gur and IMPART ; Quantitative Analysis of Negev Tourism Data – Sara Levi Sacerdotti and IMPART ; Qualitative Analysis of Negev Tourism Data – Sara Levi Sacerdotti and IMPART ; Establishing a Benchmark for Open-Air Rock Site Management – Sara Levi Sacerdotti and IMPART ; Notes from an Ethnographic Field Survey of the Negev Highland Bedouin – Joshua Schmidt ; Part II: Ramat Matred Surveys ; Ecological Survey at Ramat Matred – Ron Frumkin ; Archaeological Survey at Ramat Matred – Davida Eisenberg-Degen ; The Rock Art and Archaeological Surveys at Ramat Matred – Ifat Shezaf ; GIS Visualization of the IMPART Surveys (Figures 10.1 to 10.10) – Eli Cohen-Sasson ; Part III: Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations ; Conclusions – IMPART ; Recommendations – Joshua Schmidt and IMPART ; Epilogue – IMPART ; Afterword – Liora Kolska Horwitz ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe extraordinary beauty, cultural wealth, and diversity of EU's coastal areas have designated them as one of the preferred destinations for many holiday-goers. The numerous businesses that operate in these heavily traveled areas have to struggle with other similarly-minded companies and with providing sustainable practices for the people and surrounding area. Managing, Marketing, and Maintaining Maritime and Coastal Tourism is a pivotal reference source that provides vital material on the application of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinarity logic surrounding sea tourism. While highlighting topics such as destination marketing, event management, and global business, this publication explores the dynamic capabilities and the methods of overall management of hospitality by the sea. This book is ideally designed for marketers, advertisers, tour directors, cruise directors, travel agents, port managers, coastal cities managers, event coordinators, academics, students, researchers, policymakers, public managers, and tourism entrepreneurs.

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Book SynopsisResearch delivers a multitude of approaches to value creation, represented here as a set of definitions, perspectives and interpretations of how tourists, as customers, create value alone and with others. Now updated throughout, Creating Experience Value in Tourism, 2nd Edition provides a clarification of these approaches as well as a practical translation as to how they can work within industry. Including a framework to distinguish among key resources or antecedents of customer value, this new edition: - Introduces the concept of co-creation of value in the tourist experience, looking at the definitions, structures and models available; - Provides a new chapter addressing value creation and resource configuration; - Considers consumer behaviour and factors affecting value creation from both physiological and psychological perspectives; - Introduces a new full colour internal design to aid understanding. Concluding with a summary of the areas for future research, this is a key resource for researchers, particularly those interested in experience value and co-creation, as well as a useful read for students of tourism and related industries.Table of Contents1: Co-creation of Tourist Experience: Scope, Definition and Structure 2: Dynamic Drivers of Tourist Experiences 3: Tourist Experience Value: Tourist Experience and Life Satisfaction 4: Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in the Tourism Context 5: Why, Oh Why, Oh Why, Do People Travel Abroad? 6: Self-congruity Theory in Travel and Tourism: Another Update 7: Moving People: a Conceptual Framework for Understanding How Visitor Experiences can be Enhanced by Mindful Attention to Interest 8: Co-creation of Experience Value: a Tourist Behaviour Approach 9: Authenticity as a Value Co-creator of Tourism Experiences 10: Experience Co-creation Depends on Rapport-building: Training Implications for the Service Frontline 11: Approaches for the Evaluation of Visitor Experiences at Tourist Attractions 12: Storytelling in a Co-creation Perspective 13: Tourist Information Search: A DIY Approach to Creating Experience Value 14: Co-creation of Value and Social Media: How? 15: Prices and Value in Co-produced Hospitality and Tourism Experiences 16: Value Creation: a Tourism Mobilities Perspective 17: Guide Performance: Co-created Experiences for Tourist Immersion 18: Value Creation and Co-creation in Tourist Experiences: an East Asian Cultural Knowledge Framework Approach 19: Perspectives on Value Creation – Resource Configuration 20: Value Co-creation: Challenges and Future Research Directions

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Book SynopsisAddressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism. Existing work shows awareness that politics is present but the approach has been one of benign neglect, and/or a priori assumptions about the role of politics in the management of sacred sites. Previous literature is fragmented into various perspectives and approaches that best serve different disciplinary interests. By understanding the politics of religious tourism through the various perspectives and approaches from the discipline of political science, law, public policy, and other fields, this book: Focuses on how power is exercised regarding religious tourism. Looks at the governing institutions of religious tourism including the role of relevant governmental bodies such as ministries of tourism or national tourism boards, ministries of religion and/or culture. Covers the role and influence of religious governing institutions, such as state-supported church/mosque officials, and universities.This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of religious tourism, pilgrimage, as well as related subjects such as political science, economics, sociology, tourism, law studies, and religious studies.

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Book SynopsisA ‘new spirit of hospitality’ beckons planetary provenances of leisure and pleasure, to promote tourism destinations through the digitization and cinematic advertising of tourist experience. While releasing identities, populations, and environments from their geographical and political isolation, this new spirit may rob them of their ability to communicate cultural diversity on their own terms. Such changes also affect the professionals who produce aesthetic renditions of other people’s home territories as tourist destinations, often feeding into domestic perceptions of homemaking, with various good and bad consequences for the design of sustainable planetary futures. Through methodological elaborations on case studies, Tzanelli explains that we have entered a new era of tourism and hospitality mobilities dominated by crises of cultural representation and host presence. Triggered by the urge to renovate concept design, the crisis leads to a proliferation of what is just, true, and real, with various consequences for those interest groups involved in the production of truthfulness, justice and reality in hospitality and tourism. The Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations series provides an insightful guide for policy makers, specialists and social scientists interested in the future of tourism in a society where uncertainness, anxiety and fear prevail.Trade ReviewTzanelli disturbs the normative premises on which much tourism and hospitality research are predicated to make space for imaginations whereby the represented can manage their representations, and destination design is co-developed with more just digital technologies. -- Dorina-Maria Buda, Nottingham Trend Business School, UKTzanelli goes beyond the co-ordinates of contemporary cultural theory to contextualise a new “atmospheric” ethos in tourism markets. All of this grounded in a Marxist appreciation of the relation of space to labour and, perhaps the most innovative focus of the book, on the notion of worldmaking borrowed from Hollinshead and deployed here to organise the appearances (another mode of spirit, etymologically justified in Marx’s terminology) of tourism in case studies. As cases, however, these studies are saturated in an astute appreciation of theoretical confluence, from Derridean spectres and hospitality to Hardt and Negri’s Empire, to Boltanski and Chiapello, Žižek, Sewell, that guy Hutnyk and the classics – Hegel, Nietzsche, Arendt. The book narrates a necessary movement from crisis to justice, designing places for care and reviving a new hospitality in an always open-ended inquiry. It will allow you to travel to your own conclusions, taking or leaving the many stops on the way as possible swelling-places or refreshment. Theoretical tourism has rarely been done with such vigour. A fabulous, fun, and flagrantly phantasmagoric read. -- John Hutnyk, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Travels to Post-Truth Worlds Chapter 1. Representation, Presence and Public Culture Chapter 2. From Cultural Worldmaking to Structural Technomorphism in Zorba the Greek Tourism Chapter 3. From Borat Post-Tourism to Market Post-Truth: Kazakhstan’s New Spirit of (In)Hospitality Chapter 4. Spirited Edgeworks: Breaking Bad’s (In)Hospitable Worlds of Soft Crime Conclusion. Undoing the Cinematic Tourist Provenance, Designing Viable Futures

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Book SynopsisOver the last decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile whilst, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to establish a more informed relationship between the theory and practice of dark tourism. This book meets the undoubted need for such a volume by providing a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism.Trade ReviewIn this perspective-broadening text, Sharpley and Stone (and their fellow observers of the prominence of sites of death and disaster) shine informed light on the rich but undersuspected connectivities of tourism. The dark and unquenchable business of thanatourism is colourfully and critically painted in arrestive shades of cultural, political, and public significance. -- Keith Hollinshead, Professor of Public Culture,Tourism Studies, The Business School, University of Bedfordshire, UKThe book would be a fine addition to any tourism library and would be of interest to heritage planners and managers, tourism researchers, and graduate or senior undergraduate tourism students. * Paul F. Wilkinson, York University, Canada in e-Review of Tourism Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2010 *Dark tourism is a subject area that has seen substantial growth in academic attention over the past decade, beginning with Foley and Lennon's (2000) Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster (2000). This new text is thus the latest in a growing body of literature. The quality of research and the depth of thought that has gone into the study of this phenomenon over the past decade are fascinating. The Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism illustrates how research in this area has moved from the simple theoretical development and case studies presented in Foley and Lennon to an understanding the development and management of dark tourism sites. * Wayne William Smith, College of Charleston, USA. Annals of Tourism Research 37. *Table of ContentsContributors 1. Shedding light on dark tourism: an introduction - Richard Sharpley 2. Making absent death present – consuming dark tourism in contemporary society - Philip R. Stone 3. Dark tourism: mediating between the dead and the living - Tony Walter 4. Dark tourism: morality and new moral spaces - Philip R. Stone 5. Purposeful otherness: approaches to the management of thanatourism - Tony Seaton 6. (Re)presenting the Macabre: interpretation, kitschification and authenticity - Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone 7. Contested national tragedies: an ethical dimension - Craig Wight 8. Dark tourism and political ideology: towards a governance model - Richard Sharpley 9. ‘It’s a Bloody Guide’ - Fun, fear and a lighter side of dark tourism at The Dungeon visitor attractions, UK - Philip R. Stone 10. Battlefield tourism: bringing organised violence back to life - Frank Baldwin and Richard Sharpley 11. ‘Genocide tourism’ - John Beech 12. Museums, memorials and plantation houses in the Black Atlantic: slavery and the development of dark tourism - Alan Rice Life, Death and Dark Tourism: future research directions and concluding comments Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the ‘tourist’, the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer tourism and the vulnerability of tourism. Bringing together the collective wisdom of 37 renowned tourism scholars in a unique format, this is an important text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, tourism researchers and industry professionals.Trade ReviewThis book grabs your attention by probing into several of tourism's most intriguing and lively debates. It brings together contributions by leading tourism researchers about several of the subject's more important tensions, dilemmas, ambiguities and disputed relationships. It succeeds in encouraging readers to think more deeply and in more nuanced ways about tourism. -- Bill Bramwell, Emeritus Professor, Sheffield Hallam University, UKIn this stimulating volume, 37 leading scholars explore 11 carefully identified conceptual and definitional paradoxes of tourism. The juxtaposition of propositions with counter-arguments provides the reader with different perspectives and with highly focused insights into the knottiest of tourism problems. The search by the editor, Professor TV Singh, for scholarly convergence is challenging, worthwhile and rewarding. -- Brian King, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong KongThe first strength is the focus of the volume. It is not ‘‘everything tourism” and that is arguably a good thing. The coverage of topics is oriented towards tourist experience, tourism development, and planning issues with a solid substrate about sustainability (...) A second strength of the work lies in its educational value. The topics covered could serve a tourism development and planning course very well. Initial context statements, concluding remarks, and discussion questions reinforce the value of the work for students. -- Philip L. Pearce, James Cook University, Australia * Annals of Tourism Research 61 (2016) 268–278 *The book serves as a highly welcome collection of texts that help us to understand these well-selected research challenges and related nuances. We look forward to the next ‘fruits’. -- Jarkko Saarinen, University of Oulu, Finland * Annals of Leisure Research, 2016 *This book will provide the reader with an interesting insight into various tourism challenges. These are united under the umbrella of 11 theme-based chapters, which are discussed and debated across a total of 40 papers. The titles of the themes very well reflect some of the key issues of the multidisciplinary nature of tourism research. Although the editor is right in acknowledging that the first chapters are more appropriate for those at the beginning of their tourism careers (being either academic- or business-oriented), I would like to add that these are a must-read also for established researchers and practitioners, since here and then we all need to be reminded of the origin of the concepts we usually take for granted. -- Tina Šegota, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia * e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR), Vol.12, No. 5/6 2015 *The book is an accessible, well-organised, informative, and sets itself apart from other tourism issue volumes because of its unique methodology. There is critical insight here, and it is reassuring that many of the authors not only call for change, but attempt to point us in the direction for change. -- David A. Fennell, Brock University, Canada * Tourism Recreation Research, 2016 *Table of ContentsErik Cohen: Foreword Tej Vir Singh: Preface Tej Vir Singh: Introduction 1. I am a Traveller, You are a Visitor, They are Tourists; ‘But who are Post-tourists’? 1.1 Scott McCabe: Are We all Post-tourists now? Tourist Categories, Identity and Postmodernity 1.2 David Dunn: Those People were a Kind of Solution: Post-Tourists and Grand Narratives 1.3 Natan Uriely: Exploring the Post-Tourist: Guidelines for Future Research 2. Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure? 2.1 Dan Knox and Kevin Hannam: The Secular Pilgrim: Are We Flogging a Dead Metaphor? 2.2 Peter Jan Margry: Whisky and Pilgrimage: Clearing Up Commonalities 2.3 Noel B. Salazar: To Be or Not to Be a Tourist: The Role of Concept-Metaphors in Tourism Studies 3. Do Tourists Travel for the Discovery of ‘Self’ or to Search for the ‘Other’? 3.1 Gianna Moscardo: A Journey in Search of Self and the ‘Other’? 3.2 Graham Dann: The Quest for the Self or the ‘Other’ as Motivation for Travel: Simple Choice or Spoiled for Choice? 3.3 Bob McKercher: Tourism: The Quest for the Selfish 4. Is Volunteerism a New Avatar of Travelism? 4.1 Stephen Wearing, Simone Grabowski and Jennie Small: Volunteer Tourism: Return of the Traveller 4.2 Kevin Lyons: Reciprocity in Volunteer Tourism and Travelism 4.3 Daniel Guttentag: Volunteer Tourism: Insights from the Past, Concerns about the Present and Questions for the Future 4.4 Alexandra Coghlan: Volunteer Tourism: A New Narrative between Hosts and Guests 5. Tourism’s Invulnerability: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 5.1 Julio Aramberri: Is Tourism Vulnerable? 5.2 Richard Sharpley: Tourism and Vulnerability: A Case of Pessimism? 5.3 Carson L. Jenkins: Is Tourism Vulnerable? An Ambiguous Question 6. Vanishing Peripheries: Does Tourism Consume Places? 6.1 C. M. Hall: Elaborating Core–Periphery Relations in Tourism 6.2 David Harrison: Vanishing Peripheries and Shifting Centres: Structural Certainties or Negotiated Ambiguities? 6.3 David Weaver: Moving in from the Margins: Experiential Consumption and the Pleasure Core 6.4 Geoffrey Wall: Tourism in Peripheries 7. Tourism is More Sinned Against than Sinning 7.1 Richard Sharpley: In Defence of Tourism 7.2 Noel Scott: Original Sin: A Lack of (Tourism) Knowledge 7.3 Jim Macbeth: Tourism: The Good, the Bad and the Sinner? 7.4 Peter Smith: In Defence of Tourism: A Re-assessment 8. Is Concept of Sustainability Utopian? Ideally Perfect but Hard to Practice 8.1 Stephen McCool: Sustainable Tourism: Guiding Fiction, Social Trap or Path to Resilience? 8.2 Richard Butler: Sustainable Tourism – The Undefinable and Unachievable Pursued by the Unrealistic? 8.3 Ralf Buckley: Tourism and the Sustainability of Human Societies 8.4 David Weaver: Whither Sustainable Tourism? But First, a Good Hard Look in the Mirror 8.5 Brian Wheeller: Sustainable Tourism: Milestone or Millstone? 9. What is Wrong with the Concept of Carrying Capacity? 9.1 Ralf Buckley: Tourism Capacity Concepts 9.2 Sagar Singh: A Twist in the Tale of Carrying Capacity: Towards a Formula for Sustainable Tourism? 9.3 Gene Brothers: Tragedy of the Tourism Commons: A Need for Carrying Capacities 9.4 Simon McArthur: Why Carrying Capacity Should be a Last Resort? 10. Knowledge Management in Tourism: Are the Stakeholders Research-Averse? 10.1 Chris Cooper: Transferring Tourism Knowledge – A Challenge for Tourism Educators and Researchers 10.2 Lisa Ruhanen: Transferring Tourism Knowledge: Research on Climate Change and Sustainability 10.3 Noel Scott: A Market Approach to Tourism Knowledge 11. Tourism for Whom? – The Unmet Challenge 11.1 Richard Butler: What has Tourism Ever Done for Us? 11.2 C. M. Hall: What has Tourism Ever Done for Us? Depends Where You’re Looking from and Who’s Looking 11.3 Geoffrey Wall: Tourism has Done a Lot for Us, for Both Good and Ill 11.4 John Swarbrooke: Are we going to Use Tourism or to be Used by Tourism? Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of tourism through the identification and discussion of key turning points. Based on these considerations, future turning points are identified and evaluated. The volume provides a continuum between the past and future of tourism. Its central themes are the globalisation of tourism; the development of destinations; the importance of mobility and transport; the development of the modern hotel; the diversification of niche tourism and the conceptualisation of the past and future of tourism using the evolutionary paradigm in future studies. The core findings of the book provide the first perspective on how the history of tourism will shape its future.Trade ReviewAnother masterpiece from the formidable pair Yeoman and McMahon-Beattie tracing the histories of tourism through tipping points for us to learn lessons for the future. This is the book we’ve been waiting for in times of rapid change and uncertainties shedding much-needed light on possible trajectories and contemplating a more sustainable future. * Heike Schänzel, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand *This book is to tourism what science fiction is to science. It builds on tourism’s past and present to project future evolutionary scenarios. Not all will take place, but future readers will eventually be able to look back and appreciate the vision and foresight of its contributors. A must-read. * Leslie Vella, Malta Tourism Authority, Malta *The belief that the more we know about the past, the better equipped we will be for the future, resonates throughout this book. In a collection of well-crafted chapters, renowned futurist scholars capture and validate the significance of history. This innovative volume demonstrates how the current and potential future existence of our multifaceted tourism industry is persistently influenced, revolutionised and inspired by the past. * Daniel Wright, University of Central Lancashire, UK *[This book] is recommended for researchers to obtain inspiration in developing new research themes, as the chapters offer substantial turning points in the past and the future of the tourism industry. -- Brian Kee Mun Wong and Chin Hooi Ng, KDU University College, Malaysia * Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol 6, No 2, 2020 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Ian Yeoman and Una McMahon-Beattie: Does the Past Shape the Future? Part 1: Globalisation Chapter 2. Bertus van der Tuuk: History of the Future of Tourism Chapter 3. Jim Butcher: The Development of Mass Tourism Part 2: The Development of Place Chapter 4. Marie-Louise Mangion: The Historical Future of Tourism: The Case of Malta’s Policies Chapter 5. Klaus Pfatschbacher: Jules Verne as a Key to Understanding Irish Tourism Chapter 6. Brian Hay: The Growth, Decline and Resurgence of the City-State Chapter 7. Benjamin Taunay: Geohistorical Analysis of Costal Tourism in China (1841-2017) Part 3: Mobility Chapter 8. Rafael Castro, Gui Lohmann, Bojana Spasojevic, Carla Fraga and Thiago Allis: The Future Past of Aircraft Technology and Their Impact on Stopover Destinations Chapter 9. Wendy London and Wallace Farias: Forever Young and New - Cruise Tourism Chapter 10. Jonathan Hui: From Muscles to Electrons: A Technological Look at the Futures of Energy, Transport, and Tourism Part 4: The Hotel Chapter 11. Kevin James: Hotel History Chapter 12. David Williamson: Historical Employment Relations in the New Zealand Tourism Hotel Sector: From a Collective Past to an Individual Future Part 5: Diversification into Niche Tourism Chapter 13. Peter Bolan and Mihaela Ghisoiu: Film Tourism through the Ages: From Lumiére to Virtual Reality Chapter 14. Sabrina Seeler: The Evolution of the Grand Tour in the Digital Society Chapter 15. Gianna Moscardo, Laurie Murphy, Karen Hughes, Pierre Benckendorff: Shopping on the Edge: Identifying Factors Contributing to Tourist Retail Development in Heritage Villages Chapter 16. Richard Butler and Wantanee Suntikul: Tourism and Religion: Pilgrims, Tourists and Travellers - Past, Present and Future Chapter 17. Ghazali Musa and Md Moniruzzaman Sarker: History and Future of Mountaineering Tourism Chapter 18. Alastair Durie, Ian Yeoman and Una McMahon-Beattie: Sustainability, Ecotourism and Scotland: Concerns, Complaints Conflicts and Conservation Part 6: Evolution Chapter 19. Ian Yeoman and Una McMahon-Beattie: Does the Past Shape the Future of Tourism? A Cognitive Map(s) Perspective

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to apply the concept of ‘contents tourism’ in a global context and to establish an international and interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research. The term ‘contents tourism’ gained official recognition in Japan when it was defined by the Japanese government in 2005, and it has been characterised as ‘travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels and computer games’. The book builds on previous research from Japan and explores three main themes of contents tourism: ‘the Contentsization of Literary Worlds’, ‘Tourist Behaviours at “Sacred Sites” of Contents Tourism’ and ‘Contents Tourism as Pilgrimage’ and draws together these key themes to propose a set of policy implications for achieving successful and sustainable contents tourism in the 21st century.Trade ReviewIn this volume, an international group of scholars rewrites the old canon of ‘contents tourism’ with impressive cultural sensitivity. Across several chapters exploring aspects of Japanese popular culture’s adherence to performance and visuality, native phenomena are examined as instances of transnational hybridisation and global cultural connectivity. An essential read for students of international popular culture, tourism and the moving image. * Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK *This book reconceptualises the largely compartmentalised views of media-tourism relationships, such as film and literary tourism, advancing and encapsulating them within the socialising frame of contents tourism. The authors provide engaging insights into the formation, curation and (re)crafting of media-related narratives, variously bonding communities, media, tourists and places across the different contexts. These insights provoke new interpretations and considerations, which will benefit anyone studying contents tourism (or any tourism-media relationship). * Glen Croy, Monash University, Australia *This important book expands the concept of contents tourism, which has so far been limited mainly to the Japanese context, and shows its transnational and transmedial potential. Case studies from different cultural contexts, which refer to enthusiasm for literature, theatre, folklore or anime, illustrate the variety of paths the imagination can take – and how imaginary journeys become real tourism. * Elisabeth Scherer, University of Düsseldorf, Germany *Contents tourism is among the very few productive new ideas that has emerged in tourism studies in the past several decades. The authors in this important volume capture the dynamics of the emotional and symbolic connection of tourists to the places they visit. The chapters prove the promise of contents tourism beyond studies of the mise en scene of Japanese anime where it originated. * Dean MacCannell, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Davis, USA *This book further contributes to academia as it clarifies the term ‘contents tourism’, broadens this term from the Japanese context to a global context, links literature and tourism from a ‘contentsization’ point of view, and focuses on mediarelated narratives in tourism. From a qualitative-research point of view, the authors have contributed to this growing field of contents tourism by building their argumentation on different qualitative methods, as the following analysis illustrates. -- Zafer Öter, İzmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey * Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2021 *This book contributes greatly to our understanding of the role of popular culture and its contents for the contemporary global tourism landscape [and] provides a fresh perspective that will hopefully decrease the fragmentation of existing related research while making especially Japanese research in this area more accessible to English-speaking academia. -- Ina Reichenberger, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand * Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 7 No. 1, 2021 *This collection of essays examines the phenomenon of "contents tourism" within a global context [...] In all cases, content is the unifying element of analysis rather than the platform. This interesting construct utilizes the content itself as the focus/motivator of tourism rather than the individual modality of presentation (e.g., film, theater). This is a readable, interesting, and informative study. -- S. A. Schulman, CUNY Baruch College, USA * CHOICE, Vol. 58 No. 4, Dec 2020 *Table of ContentsForeword. Sue Beeton Introduction. Takayoshi Yamamura: Contents Tourism Beyond Anime Tourism Chapter 1. Philip Seaton: The Contents Tourism of Jane Austen’s American Fans Chapter 2. Maree Thyne & Gretchen Larsen: Conceptualising Contents Brandscapes: The Brontë Brand Chapter 3. Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny: The Witcher Novels and Games-inspired Tourism in Poland Chapter 4. Takayoshi Yamamura: Traveling Heidi: International Contents Tourism Induced by Japanese Anime Chapter 5. Catherine Butler: The Cotswolds and Children’s Literature in Japanese Fantasy: The Case of Castle Combe Chapter 6. Shinobu Myoki: Yōkai Tourism in Japan and Taiwan Chapter 7. Kyungjae Jang: Contents Tourism and Religious Imagination Chapter 8. Akiko Sugawa-Shimada: The 2.5-Dimensional Theatre as a Communication Site: Non-site-specific Theatre Tourism Chapter 9. Ranny Rastati: Indonesian Cosplay Tourism Chapter 10. Sueun Kim: Outbound Tourism Motivated by Domestic Films: Contentsized Koreanness in Thai movies and Tourism to Korea Chapter 11. Christopher Hood: Contents Tourism in Plane Sight Chapter 12. Stefanie Benjamin: Breaking Benjamin: A Woman’s Pilgrimage to New Mexico Chapter 13. Sue Beeton: From Banjo to Basho: Poets, Contents and Tourism Conclusions. Philip Seaton: Sustainable Contents Tourism in the 21st Century

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the lifestyles, expectations and plans of Millennials and Generation Z and how they are redefining tourism. It demonstrates that if the tourism industry is to enjoy future growth, it must understand and meet the particular needs of these two generations. The volume explores the present and future challenges faced by the tourism industry as a result of the generational turnover, and seeks to answer the following questions: What contribution can the new generations make to the future of tourism? How are technological advancements and social networks shaping future travel trends? Can a generational perspective be useful to help the tourism industry recover from the COVID-19 crisis? The book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology and tourism studies, as well as tourism professionals.Trade ReviewThis volume places the youngest travellers at the core of scientific reflection. Applying a generational approach to the study of tourism and elaborating on technologies, the sharing economy and gender issues in tourism, it is a timely and useful resource capturing some significant peculiarities that will shape the future of tourism. * Marina Novelli, University of Brighton, UK *This book employs sociological thought to provide a novel approach to understanding the connection between the intersectionality of past, present, and future trends in tourism. The authors present an insightful ‘snapshot’ of our current times and highlight how several external trends such as technological advances, security challenges, economic issues, and pandemic disasters are fundamentally transforming tourism beyond the tourist gaze to ultimately shape and reshape the tourism experience and the future of travel for Millennials and Gen Zers. * DeMond Miller, Rowan University, USA *[The authors] provide a timely text on research surrounding the younger generations and how they choose to engage with tourism [...] One of the most attractive aspects of this book is the potential for future research on generational impacts for tourism, especially considering the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors do a marvelous job suggesting key avenues of research inquiry. Libraries with tourism collections centered on intergenerational studies, international tourism, and social tourism should acquire this book. * K.M. Woosnam, University of Georgia, USA, CHOICE Vol. 60 No. 6 *Table of ContentsFabio Corbisiero, Salvatore Monaco and Elisabetta Ruspini: Introduction: Tourism at the Crossroads: Between Past, Present and Future Part 1: On the Go with the New Generations Chapter 1. Elisabetta Ruspini: Generations, Events, Experiences, Tourism Chapter 2. Salvatore Monaco: Capturing the Future Traveller Part 2: Technologies and the Sharing Economy in Tourism Chapter 3. Fabio Corbisiero: NetGen and Tourism Chapter 4. Salvatore Monaco: Towards a Sharing Generation Part 3: Generations, Gender and LGBT Issues in Tourism Chapter 5. Elisabetta Ruspini: Gender, Generations, Tourism Chapter 6. Fabio Corbisiero: LGBTQ+ and Next-Gen Tourism Fabio Corbisiero, Salvatore Monaco and Elisabetta Ruspini: Conclusion: Understanding the Present to Prepare for the Future (of Tourism) References

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Book SynopsisCultural heritage is one of the most important tourism resources in the world. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical overview and applied knowledge of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism. The second edition has been updated to include timely and emerging topics such as geopolitics, conflict, solidarity tourism, overtourism and climate change. It also expands on important areas such as environmental change, technology, social media, heritage economics, Indigenous knowledge and co-created experiences. This edition includes up-to-date data, statistics, references, case material, figures and pedagogical tools. It remains an important and accessible text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural and heritage tourism, cultural resource management, and museum management.Trade ReviewProfessor Dallen Timothy is one of the world’s most eminent scholars in the field of cultural heritage tourism. Using an articulate but accessible style, he covers a comprehensive range of pertinent themes from the basics of heritage management to complex issues of authenticity and the interpretation of the contested past. This book provides invaluable material for Cultural Tourism and Heritage Management courses at all levels. * Melanie Kay Smith, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary *This thought-provoking, comprehensive book, written by ‘unashamedly, a self-proclaimed heritage fanatic’ will assist students, scholars and practitioners to understand, conceptualize and effectively and responsibly manage cultural heritage. Those interested in participating in the academic discussion about cultural heritage tourism, recognizing it as a complex multidimensional phenomenon, must read this clear, well-structured and readable book. * Yaniv Poria, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel *Dallen Timothy's second edition of Cultural Heritage and Tourism is a must-read book on heritage, given the accessible style and breadth and depth with which the topic is dealt. The book is an up-to-date synthesis of key thinking on this area, written by an acknowledged expert on heritage tourism. * Stephen J. Page, University of Hertfordshire, UK *In compiling the second edition, Dallen J. Timothy successfully devotes space for emerging topics such as the sustainable use of cultural/heritage resources and technology […] Going forward, as the globe struggles to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, this new edition will conceptually and practically offer a holistic platform for developing transformative/restorative heritage tourism, devoted to moral values, replenishment, and the wellbeing of humanity, for better times, so that it can remain resilient and thriving during catastrophic events. -- Deepak Chhabra, Arizona State University, USA * Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol 16 No 5 *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Plates Preface 1. Cultural Heritage and Tourism Part 1 2. Consumption of Culture: Heritage Demand and Experience 3. The Heritage Supply: Attractions and Services 4. Spatial Perspectives and Heritage Resources 5. Looking for Something Real: Heritage, Tourism and Elusive Authenticity 6. Tourism and the Politics of Heritage 7. The Need to Conserve the Past: The Impacts of Tourism 8. Protective Legislation and Conservation Organizations 9. Protecting the Past for Today: Heritage Conservation and Tourism 10. Telling the Story: Interpreting the Past for Visitors 11. Planning Principles, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Destinations 12. Marketing the Past for Today 13. Raising Revenue and Managing Visitors Part 2 14. Museums: Keepers of the Past 15. Archaeological Sites and Ancient Monuments 16. Landscapes of the Elite and the Ordinary 17. The Industrial Past 18. Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage 19. Diasporas, Roots and Personal Heritage Tourism 20. Living Heritage, Intangible Culture and Indigenous People 21. Dark Tourism: Atrocity and Human Suffering 22. Conclusions: The Future of the Past References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It critically examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its close connection with fan studies and placemaking. The chapters illustrate how different destinations capitalise on expressive cultural practices to attract fan tourists, the processes involved in their tourismification, and the outcomes for both visitors and local communities. The book establishes a common ground for the comprehensive and critical study of popular culture tourism development and fandom. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations. It is a useful resource for researchers in tourism management, fandom, pop culture and media studies, as well as for those working in the tourism industry.Trade ReviewThe entanglements between popular culture and tourism are increasingly shaping places and leisure mobility patterns. The editors of this book have curated a compelling collection of emergent spatial imaginaries and rekindled placemaking practices to showcase tourism transformations in the Anthropocene. Solidly grounded in interdisciplinary domains, this volume will be of interest to both tourism and place marketers, as well as consumer culture scholars at large. * Szilvia Gyimóthy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark *This arresting book examines the expressive practices of popular culture that craft tourism realities. The editors’ compelling perspective guides critical exploration of what popular-culture fans desire and how communities respond to intended and unintended tourism changes. The expert authors critically interrogate contested tourism world-making emerging from various popular culture expressions, including musicians, manga, film, and Indigenous responses to colonial invasion. A must-read for anyone researching popular culture–tourism relationships. * Glen Croy, Monash University, Australia *This engaging book offers a wide-ranging approach to the diverse and rich interrelations between popular culture and tourism, both online and onsite, varying from battlefield tourism, scholarly-virtual pilgrimage and fan travel vlogs to baseball tourism. I particularly liked how the authors address the important role and perspective of fans in all these cultural practices. * Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands *Table of ContentsContributors Prologue Chapter 1. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Introduction to Popular Culture Destinations: Contexts, Perspectives and Insights Part 1: Fandoms and Popular Culture Tourism Placemaking Chapter 2. Warwick Frost and Jennifer Frost: Commemorating Rock Stars: Exploring Fan Interactions at AC/DC and Chrissie Amphlett Lanes, Melbourne, Australia Chapter 3. Timo Thelen and Sangkyun Kim: The Emergence of Fan Pilgrimage Sites – Unintended and Intended Part 2: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys of Fans Chapter 4. Michael Fagence: 'Walking Battlefield Sites': An Experience of Secular Pilgrimage Chapter 5. Tatiana Chekalina, Maria Lexhagen, Christopher Hoffman and Gustav Grönskog: Gloomy or Exciting: Image, Engagement and Violent TV Drama in a Heritage Destination Setting Chapter 6. O. Hugo Benavides: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys in Hawaii: Where the Secular and Sacred Intersect Part 3: Digitalisation in Popular Culture Destinations Chapter 7. Lincoln Geraghty: Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture Tourism Chapter 8. Kelly Palmer and Glen Thomas: @Bluey_Locations: The Brisbane Local as Bluey Tourist Chapter 9. Wen (Stella) Tian, Christine Lundberg and Alkmini Gkritzali: Millennials' Responses to Popular Culture-Induced Visual and Verbal Cues: An Eye-Tracking Investigation Part 4: Popular Culture Tourism Spaces and Imaginaries of the World Chapter 10. Nicholas Wise: (Re)Celebrating Baseball’s Rural Nostalgia: Placemaking and Touristification in the Cornfields of Iowa Chapter 11. Rodanthi Tzanelli: Climate Disaster Films and Scholarly-Virtual Pilgrimage to Viable Planetary Futures Epilogue Chapter 12. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Conclusions for Popular Culture Tourism Research: Progress and Problematics Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europe.The volume is based on the ethnographic research conducted in Italy, a country internationally known for its food tradition and one of the European countries where the gap between rural and urban space is most pronounced. It offers an anthropological analysis of food festivals, exploring the transformational role they have to change and develop rural communities. Although the festivals aim mostly at tourism, they contribute in a wider way to the life of the rural communities, acting as devices through which a community redefines itself, reinforces its sociality, reshapes the perception and use of the surrounding environment. In so doing, thus, the books suggests to read the festivals not just as celebrations driven by food fashion, but rather fundamental grassroots instruments to contrast the effects of rural marginalization and pave the way to a possible better future for the communityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development.- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape.- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices.- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices.- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices.- Chapter 6: Conclusions: Food festivals as development devices.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the basic knowledge ("basics") for professional sports marketing and gives suggestions for management practice. In the course of social and economic development, sports marketing has grown from rudimentary beginnings into a highly professional and complex discipline that not only affects those directly involved, but has also involved other interest groups (stakeholders) who often pursue their own and not always compatible intentions and interests.In addition, megatrends such as digitalisation and globalisation have given new impetus to sports marketing, just as sport itself has changed significantly in all its different manifestations and structures (including professionals and amateurs, sponsorship and organisation, self-determination and external determination).The authors present the basic building blocks in sports marketing in a compact manner and outline framework conditions, special features, strategy development and the use of marketing instruments. In this way, they create knowledge and understanding for successful sports marketing in the future.The content Sports marketing at the centre of different markets Basics of sports marketing Performance aspects in sports marketing Prices and contracts in sports marketing Communication issues in sports marketing Distribution channels in sports marketing Perspectives of sport - opportunities and risks in sports marketing Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of international and domestic tourism and sharply focused attention on the importance of tourist health, safety and wellbeing like never before. This book offers a unique perspective on the challenges facing the world’s largest service industry to protect and care for customers in a rapidly evolving environment where borders have closed, social distancing rules apply and personal hygiene has become a key focus in everyday life. Yet tourism is a very resilient industry and history shows there is always an immediate surge toward recovery after a crisis has passed. Humans want to travel and see the world. While we appreciate that the pandemic is far from over, already there are reports of pent-up demand for travel as restrictions ease at some destinations and borders begin to open. As we move hopefully toward the recovery phase and people begin to move around for business and pleasure, this book presents the reader with key information and insights in both traditional and emerging areas of tourist health, safety and wellbeing, recognising that the world is now shaped by this pandemic, bringing change, potentially enduring benefits and lasting legacies.Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Issues in Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing (Jeff Wilks, Donna Pendergast, Peter A. Leggat and Damian Morgan).- Part I: Health.- Chapter 2. Travel Medicine and Tourist Health (Peter A. Leggat).- Chapter 3. Pre- and Post-Travel Medical Consultations (Deborah J. Mills, Lani Ramsey and Luis Furuya-Kanamori).- Chapter 4. Vulnerable Groups and Travel Health Considerations (Sarah L. McGuinness and Robert Steffen).- Part II: Safety.- Chapter 5. Tourism Security in a Post-COVID-19 World: Issues of Tourism Policing and Civil Unrest (Peter Tarlow).- Chapter 6. Food Safety and Hygiene (Donna Pendergast).- Chapter 7. Travelling Safely in an Unsafe World–A Shared Responsibility (Yetta Gurtner and David King).- Chapter 8. Tourist Injury (Richard C. Franklin, Lauren Miller, Kerrianne Watt and Peter A. Leggat).- Part III: Wellbeing.- Chapter 9. Health Psychology, Positive Psychology, and the Tourist (Thomas E. Hannan, Jacob J. Keech, Mandy Cassimatis and Kyra Hamilton).- Chapter 10. Wellbeing and Quality of Life in Tourism (Adiyukh Berbekova and Muzaffer Uysal).- Chapter 11. Domestic Nature-Based Tourism and Wellbeing—A Roadmap for the New Normal? (Michael Lück and Richard S. Aquino).- Chapter 12. Study and Tourism: Challenges for International Students in 2020 (Kay Hartwig and Elizabeth Wheeley).- Chapter 13. Generation Z, COVID-19 and Tourism (Donna Pendergast and Kyrra Wilks).- Part IV: Contexts.- Chapter 14. Understanding How Tourists Perceive and Respond to Risk: A Focus on Health Risk (Jie Wang and Marion Karl).- Chapter 15. Safety Management in the Adventure Tourism Industry (Damian Morgan).- Chapter 16. Managing Visitor Risk in National Parks (Anna Gstaettner, Kate Rodger and Diane Lee).- Chapter 17. Safety in Coastal and Marine Tourism (Jeff Wilks).- Part V: Government and Industry Activity.- Chapter 18. Government Travel Advisories (David Beirman).- Chapter 19. Creating a Safer Journey: Exploring Emerging Innovations in the Aviation Sector (Gui Lohmann, Bruno Pereira and Luke Houghton).- Chapter 20. The Great Reset: Hospitality Redefined (Marianna Sigala).- Chapter 21. Cruise Ships and Passenger Health (Peter A. Leggat and Richard C. Franklin).- Chapter 22. Safe Travel—The Legal Duty of Care to Keep Tourists Safe (Anthony J. Cordato).

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people interested in the history of war, and its aftereffects.Trade Review‘This highly engaging and timely study gives historical precedents to understand contemporary examples of remembrance and mourning. There is no other work that examines the travel literature and ephemera of the Western Front in the way that Connelly does here.’ Ross Wilson, University of Nottingham and author of Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain “This book is thought-provoking and impressive in its scope and its attention to detail and is a must read for anyone curious about the experiences of those early visitors to the sites so familiar to us today.” The Western Front Association"A meticulously researched and vividly detailed analysis of the impact of war on the landscape and society of the battlefields of the Western Front in France and Belgium. Connelly’s study provides valuable insights into the motivations and significance of visiting battlefields and the first mass tourism to former sites of war and violence, as well as the emergence of a whole new industry." Francia-Recensio

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the history and evolution of tourism to the present, and speculates on possible and probable change into the future. It discusses significant travel, tourism and hospitality events while referring to tourism-related notions and theories that have been developed since the beginnings of tourism. Its scope moves beyond a comprehensive historical account of facts and events. Instead, it bridges these with contemporary issues, challenges and concerns, hence enabling readers to connect tourism past with the present and future. This textbook aspires to enhance readers' comprehension of the perplexed system of tourism, promoting decision-making and even the development of new theories. Despite its academic orientation, the book is written in an approachable style enabling a clear and solid understanding of how tourism has evolved through the centuries. It uses several practitioner-linked, real-life examples and case studies derived from organizations and enterprises across all aspects of the tourism, travel and events industries. This book will be of great interest to academics, practitioners and students from a wide variety of disciplines, including tourism, hospitality, events, sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and human geography.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Ancient History of Tourism (c. 9,000 BC- 650 AD) Chapter 3: Tourism during Post-Classical times (500- 1500) Chapter 4: Tourism during the Early Modern period (1500- 1750) Chapter 5: Tourism during the Late Modern Period (1750- 1945) Chapter 6: Tourism during the Contemporary Period (1945- Early 2020s) Chapter 7: The Future of Tourism and Hospitality (?)

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Book SynopsisVietnam has experienced rapid growth within its tourism industry during the past decades. This growth is part of Vietnam's opening economy allowing a wide range of forms of tourism. Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices provides a comprehensive review of tourism development in Vietnam. Part I outlines the history of tourism, the role and involvement of public and private sectors in governance and planning, and the markets for tourism. Part II offers analysis and assessment of various types of tourism in Vietnam, including marine and island, eco, heritage, dark and community-based tourism. Part III centres on current operational issues of tourism, hotels and events. The book provides an up-to-date analysis on Vietnamese tourism policy, structure, governance, and operations as well as various forms of tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective by: · providing a comprehensive review in a single resource; · outlining public and private sector tourism; · addressing Vietnamese structure, governance and planning of tourism; · examining special interest tourism; · addressing current issues of industry's operations and management; · embracing local and global perspectives; · principles and practices applicable to Southeast Asia. Written by scholars with extensive research experience on tourism in Vietnam this book is a reliable source of reference for students, researchers and industry practitioners who are interested in modern tourism specifically in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.Table of ContentsPART I: TOURISM POLICIES AND PRATICES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE Chapter 1: Vietnam Tourism – A View from Within. Huong T. Bui and Giang T. Phi. Chapter 2: The History and Evolution of Vietnam Tourism. Huong T. Bui and He T. Bui. Chapter 3: Tourism Policy and Governance. Huong T. Bui, Long H. Pham, Thanh D. Tran, and Binh Nghiem-Phu. Chapter 4: Tourism Planning in the Central Highlands. Thuy T. Duong, Tuan Q. Pham, Hai Q. Truong, Huong T. Bui, and Giang T. Phi. PART II: TYPES AND FORMS OF TOURISM Chapter 5: Marine and Island Tourism. Huong H. Do and Giang T. Phi Chapter 6: Ecotourism in Forests and Protected Areas. Long Pham, Huong T. Bui, Huong H. Do, and Thomas Jones. Chapter 7: Community-based Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development. Giang T. Phi and Long H. Pham Chapter 8: Heritage Conservation and Tourism: The Present of the Past. Huong T. Bui, Andrew Le, and Thomas Jones Chapter 9: Dark Tourism in the Former DMZ. Phuong M. Ngo, Huong T. Bui and Alexandru Dimanche.. PART III: TOURISM INDUSTRY PRACTICES Chapter 10: Tour Operators: A Behavioral Approach to Implementation of Responsible Tourism. Quynh N. Bui, Giang T. Phi, and Andrew Le. Chapter 11: Public Opinion on Quarantine Hotel: A Question of Corporate Social Responsibility. Binh Nghiem-Phu and Hang T.B Tran. Chapter 12: Policies and Stakeholder Engagement in Cultural Events. Phuong-Anh Dang, Le-Anh Trinh, Giang T. Phi, and Huong T. Bui. Chapter 13: Human Resources Management Practices in Tourism Industry. Thu G. Hoang, Huong H. Do, and Andrew Le.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for pub lovers, quiz lovers, history lovers and art lovers: this trivia and matching game has it all.

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Book SynopsisOrphanage tourism is where tourist interactions with 'orphaned' children are central to traveller itineraries and experience making in less-developed contexts. While appealing to the desire of tourists and volunteers to 'do good' while travelling, underlining orphanage tourism is the fact that the vast majority of children (over 80%) in orphanages and allied care institutions are not orphans. Instead, children are often placed in institutions due to poverty and hardship, and as victims of human trafficking. In some cases, orphanages can be for-profit enterprises, where the commodification of good intentions begins and becomes embedded in the tourism supply chain. Children are becoming tourist attractions and the focus of tourist consumption, leading to orphanages as sites of tourism production and consumption. The first of its kind, this book highlights exploratory research that examines the links between modern slavery practices and orphanage tourism. Contributors include academics and practitioners with a long engagement in advocacy for the rights and protection of children and research into sustainable and responsible tourism. Written in an accessible manner that appeals to a broad audience. This book will appeal to researchers interested in the areas of tourism, human geography, development studies, childhood studies, law and social justice, as well as those interested in responsible and sustainable travel. Practitioners, policy makers and civil society groups working at the vanguard of tourism expansion and communities in less-developed contexts - particularly where labour rights transgressions, human exploitation and trafficking are prevalent - will also find the book insightful. Royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to Save the Children Australia and the Forget Me Not Foundation.Table of ContentsPart I: Orphanage Tourism, Modern Slavery and Convention on the Rights of the Child Chapter 1: Orphanage Tourism and the Convention on the Rights of the Child Chapter 2: Orphanages as sites of Modern Slavery Chapter 3: Historical and socio-political drivers of Australian participation in orphanage tourism in Bali Part II: Institutionalisation Chapter 4: People, money and resources: The drivers of institutionalisation Chapter 5: Promising Practices: Strengthening families and systems to prevent and reduce the institutional care of children Part III: Voluntourism Chapter 6: What drives voluntourism? Internal Impulses and External Encouragement Chapter 7: How filmmaking can support advocacy: The voluntourist and orphanage tourism Chapter 8: Consuming poverty: Volunteer tourism in an orphanage in Nepal Part IV: A counter narrative Chapter 9: A “nice, knock-down argument” about orphanage tourism, modern slavery, and the power and peril of naming

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Book SynopsisFollowing on from the success of Garden Tourism, this book provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visitation. It delves into new themes and contemporary trends, from art and culture to psychographic profiling of visitors and how social media and semiotics are used to enrich visitor experience and fuel motivation. In addition to these new topics, the book also expands on important areas such as the continued rise of urban gardens, garden events, historic gardens and garden economics. It features: Visitor statistics for gardens around the world up to 2019. New case studies of The National Garden of Wales, Missouri Botanic Garden, Queens Botanic Garden, and Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery in Hampshire, UK. Full-colour images that show gardens in airports, new structures and initiatives in botanic gardens, the use of botanicals in gin distilling, animals and birds and the importance of gardens to their survival, and garden responses to the restrictions imposed on them by the COVID -19 pandemic. This new book provides a wealth of information for garden managers and tourism students. It is written in an engaging style that will appeal to garden managers, students of horticulture and tourism, and casual readers interested in the phenomena of gardens.Table of Contents1: Introduction: Philosophy of New Directions in Garden Tourism 2: Gardens Around the World, 2013–2019 3: New Directions in Gardens 4: New Audiences for Gardens 5: The New Media Landscape 6: Tourists in the Garden; Human Health and Happiness and the Semiotics of Garden Visiting 7: Events and Festivals 8: Impacts of Botanic Gardens: Economic, Social, Environmental and Health 9: Urban Garden Tourism 10: Gardens and Historic Homes; New Directions in Historic Garden Tourism 11: Future Directions 12: The Effect of the Coronavirus on Garden Tourism

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Book SynopsisPart I: Understanding Marketing in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry.- Chapter 1: Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Principles.- Chapter 2: Characteristics of Tourism and Hospitality Marketing.-Part 2: Understanding the Tourism and Hospitality Market.- Chapter 3: Tourism and Hospitality Consumer Behaviour.- Chapter 4: Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Research.- Part 3: Designing the Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Strategy.- Chapter 5: Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Planning.- Chapter 6: The Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Environment.- Chapter 7: Market Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning. -Part 4: Implementing the Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Mix.- Chapter 8: Tourism and Hospitality Products, Branding, and Pricing.- Chapter 9: Tourism Distribution.- Chapter 10: Promoting and Advertising Tourism and Hospitality Products.- Chapter 11: Designing the Tourism and Hospitality Promotions Mix.- Chapter 12: Digital Marketing in Tourism and Hospitality. -Part 5: Understanding Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Issues.- Chapter 13: Quality Service Experiences through Internal and Relationship Marketing.- Chapter 14: Marketing Tourism Destinations.- chapter 15: Socially Responsible Marketing.

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Book SynopsisSeeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to living and making major and everyday choices from where to live, how culture affects thinking and actions; marriage, children; work choices and behavior; leisure pursuits; and, travel behavior.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Fables of the Reconstruction or Reconstruction of the Fables? Pragmatic Aesthetics for Advancing Tourism, Culture, Place, and Community. Chapter 2: Lived Experience Theory In Travel And Tourism Research. Chapter 3: Photo Website-Induced Tourism. Chapter 4: Making the memory come alive and active: using oral history in tourism and leisure research. Chapter 5: Following the recommendation by .Emerged standards undermining the validity of empirical tourism research. Chapter 6: Gender in Backpacking and Adventure Tourism. Chapter 7: Interpreting Service Processes Through Service Blueprinting. Chapter 8: Advancing Theory on Consumer Plans, Actions, and How Marketing Information Affects Both. Chapter 9: A Model of Humour in the Tourist Experience. Chapter 10: Assessing All-Inclusive Pricing from the Perspective of the Main Stakeholders in the Turkish Tourism Industry. Chapter 11: Advancing And Testing Theories Of How Visitors Assess Historical Districts As Tourism Destinations With Use Of Repertory Grid Analysis And Laddering Analysis.

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Book SynopsisTourism appears to be an industry that anyone can understand, but in reality it is a very complex subject. It is a meeting ground for economics, sociology, anthropology, geography, ecology and national priority issues among other challenges. Issues of employment, prices and contribution to GDP are all a part of the scope of this book, as well. Leaders of countries find themselves thrown from power if they do not convert tourism potential to a revenue stream. This book presents the latest thinking from around the world.

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Book SynopsisOver the last decades, tourism has become a key sector in the world economy: its contribution to balance of payments, incomes and employment has significantly increased over time. While in 1950 international tourism receipts totaled about 2 billion dollars, by 2006 this value had reached 735 billion dollars -- about 2 billion dollars a day (World Tourism Barometer, 2007). Nowadays, the sector originates more than one third of world exports of services and over 70% of those in the poorest countries (European Commission, 2007). Tourism is therefore an important driver of growth and prosperity and, particularly within developing countries, the sector is also important for poverty reduction (World Economic Forum, 2007). Mainly dominated by small-medium enterprises, tourism accounts for 4% of the Euro Area''s GDP, with about two million enterprises employing about 4% of the total labour force (approximately eight million jobs). When linkages to other sectors are considered, the contribution of tourism to GDP increases to about 11%, and the employment rate reaches about 12%, creating about 24 million jobs. Besides incomes and jobs, tourism has fostered development in the vast majority of European regions; infrastructures built for tourism reasons contribute to local development, and jobs are created or preserved even in areas suffering industrial or rural decline or experiencing urban regeneration (European Commission, 2007). This book provides new research on tourism development from around the globe.

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Book SynopsisAny realistic understanding of contemporary tourism in the 21st century must be grounded in a context of the dynamics of capitalist globalisation. Sociologist Leslie Sklair''s conceptualisation of capitalist globalisation and its dynamics as expressed in his "sociology of the global system" (2002) is employed to understand the corporatised tourism phenomenon and explain the resistance that it sparks. This discussion explains how a corporatised tourism sector has been created by transnational tourism and travel corporations, professionals in the travel and tourism sector, transnational practices such as the liberalisation being imposed through the General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations and the culture-ideology of consumerism that tourists have adopted. These institutions, agents and processes have created a self-reinforcing system built upon growth dynamics and ever higher profit accumulation. This system reaps profits for industry and exclusive holidays for privileged tourists, but generates social and ecological costs which inspire vigorous challenge and resistance. Perhaps the most significant manifestation of this resistance is the coalition of the justice tourism movement which is seeking to replace the system of corporatised tourism with a more just, socially-concerned and sustainable tourism system. Such events suggest that the long-term future of tourism will be subject to macro-level tensions and challenges which forward-thinking tourism management will need to heed cautiously.

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Book SynopsisThe National Park Service (NPS) manages the nation''s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports a considerable amount of economic activity within park gateway communities. This book provides an economic effects analysis which measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generating business sales and supporting jobs and income.

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. travel and tourism sector, the main economic and employment engine in a number of states, suffered a steep decline in 2008 and 2009 as the nation sank into recession. Though the United States remained the world''s top travel destination by dollar value, spending by foreign visitors in the country plunged 15% in 2009. Travel and tourism, which account for 6% of U.S. employment, began to rebound in 2010, but there have been concerns about a possible decline in business along the Gulf Coast due to the April 2010 BP oil spill. This new book examines the U.S. travel and tourism industry today and the challenges and issues for the future

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Book SynopsisThe application of market segmentation techniques is long established in the tourism and hospitality literature. Various methods have been proposed for dividing market segments into homogeneous or distinct groupings with regard to socio-demographic, travel characteristic, psychographic, geographic and behavioural characteristics. In the present study, nationality (cultural differences) in combination with visitor demographics and travel characteristics were used to investigate the similarities and differences of international tourists from China and the USA with regards to their perception towards the Vietnamese service provider''s attributes and performances. The results have shown that there are more differences than similarities between the two samples in terms of cultural values and perceptions.

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Book SynopsisFreedom of poverty is a universal human prerogative and right. Hence the tackling of poverty in developing countries is a social obligation for governments, MNCs and MNOs at a national, intergovernmental and supra-national level especially with its institutionalisation within the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Tourism was a sector that was actively promoted by the above mentioned institutions in order to act as a catalyst for development and poverty reduction. Nevertheless in the course of times tourism did not deliver the expected result: poverty reduction. Hence this book embarks on exploring, by adopting a participatory approach to research, the extent to which the various controlling interests'', external (development agencies) and internal (government institutions), dictate and influence tourism development in the ex-colonial geographical areas under investigation and their relationships with various community constituents - mainly those in the local communities at the grass-roots level.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the travel and tourism industry in the United States which are critical to the American economy. This growing industry offers significant potential for job creation across all regions of the country. Federal policies on matters ranging from national security to transportation and from trade to natural resources management affect travel and tourism, and its potential for growth. In a global economy, a range of businesses depend on travel and tourism policies to enable clients, customers, and colleagues to conduct business in the United States. In addition, ensuring that international visitors have a positive experience in America is an essential component of our public diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an ethnography of nature walks in a rural area of Paraná state, southern Brazil. The event is organised by government agencies responsible for implementing public policies for farming, tourism, the environment and culture, as well as by the local community of small farmers. However, a deeper inquiry into the layers of experiences and practices accumulated over the history of human walking reveals a multiplicity of lines interwoven into this event. Over the course of this book, the authors have presented different aspects and epistemological consequences of the phrase "walking is knowing".

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