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Book SynopsisAs the travel industry develops at warp speed, challenges for practitioners and academics have grown exponentially. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this collection discusses some present trends in the development of tourism. The first section explores and sharpens some of the tools of the trade with special attention to content analysis and public–private ownership of tourist attractions. In the second part the focus is on the challenges posed by globalisation and the emergence of new nation states. The final chapters discuss new attractions such as space tourism and the impact of cultural events on urban destinations. Both the introduction and the conclusion assess a number of trends that delineate the future from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Special attention is devoted to threats and opportunities created by unexpected events like global terrorism, SARS, or the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. While all of them have exacted a heavy toll on the development of the industry, further growth has nevertheless remained unabated once their impact was assessed and duly digested by the public.
Table of ContentsContributors
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Part 1: General Introduction
1 William C. Gartner: A Synthesis of Tourism Trends
Part 2: The Toolbox: Methodological Approaches
2 Graham M.S. Dann: Content/Semiotic Analysis: Applications for Tourism Research
3 Kelly J. MacKay: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Snapshots from Tourism Destination Image Research
4 Roslyn Russell and Peter Murphy: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Times of Uncertainty: Implications for Tourism Research and Education
5 Stephen Wanhill: The Ownership and Evaluation of Visitor Attractions
Part 3: A Vulnerable Industry: Global and National Issues
6 Julio Aramberri: How Global Is Tourism?
7 Stephen L.J. Smith: The Geographical Structure of Canadian Tourism
8 Nevenka Čavlek: The Impact of Tour Operators on Tourism Development: A Sequence of Events
9 Anton Gosar: The Impact of the Creation of two Nation-states (Slovenia and Croatia) on Tourism in Istria
10 Richard Butler and David Airey: The Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak of 2001: Impacts on and Implications for Tourism in the United Kingdom
Part 4: The Shape of the Future
11 Geoffrey I. Crouch: After Tito, Where To From Here? Marketing Issues in the Development of Space Tourism
12 Myriam Jansen-Verbeke: Mutagenecity of Cultural Events in Urban Tourist Destinations
13 Valene Smith: Tourism and Terrorism: The “New War”
Part 5: Conclusion
14 Julio Aramberri and Richard Butler: Tourism Development: Vulnerability and Resilience
