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Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
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The Geography of Tourism and Recreation
Environment, Place and Space
This new edition builds on the model of success established in the previous editions, by providing students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives. It still remains the only book to...
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Tourism and Social Marketing
Series: Routledge International Series in Tourism, Business and Management
Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good. Traditionally the domain of government it is increasingly also utilised by non-government and non-profit organisations and other institutions of...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Sustainable Culinary Systems
Local Foods, Innovation, Tourism and Hospitality
Series: Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
There is increasing public and academic interest in local and sustainable foods and food tourism. These interests have been reflected in such diverse elements as the growth of farmers markets, green restaurants, food miles, crabon and sustainability labelling, concerns over food supply and security...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Medical Tourism
The Ethics, Regulation, and Marketing of Health Mobility
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services. Although spas and improved well-being have long been part of the tourist experience, health tourism now includes travel for medical purposes ranging from cosmetic and dental surgery...
Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Tourism and Climate Change
Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Climate change is the single most important global environmental and development issue facing the world today and has emerged as a major topic in tourism studies. Climate change is already affecting the tourism industry and is anticipated to have profound implications for tourism in the...
Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Sustainable Tourism Futures
Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring and Innovations
Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism
A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environmental change, including climate change; increasing fuel prices; and growing criticism from environmental and social interest groups are posing...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia
Continuing Explorations
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "...
Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
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Fieldwork in Tourism
Methods, Issues and Reflections
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences. Such conditions create specific concerns for the...
Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
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Tourism and Change in Polar Regions
Climate, Environments and Experiences
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
The world’s polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before. Once regarded as barren, inhospitable places where only explorers go, the north and south polar regions have been transformed into high profile tourism destinations, increasingly visited by cruise ships as well as becoming...
Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge