Tourism Behaviour Books

New and Published Books

1. Heritage in the Digital Era

   Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

   By Rodanthi Tzanelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to...

   Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Urban Tourism in China

   Edited by Mimi Li, Wu Bihu

   China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past thirty years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010. Urban areas as tourism destination are receiving increasingly more popularity than...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life

   By Philip Pearce, Sebastian Filep, Glenn Ross

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet. Yet there is a lack of specific attention to the ways in which we can better understand and evaluate the relationship between well-being and travel. The recent...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Contemporary Tourist Experience

   Concepts and Consequences

   Edited by Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
5. Children's and Families' Holiday Experience

   By Neil Carr

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Children’s and Families’ Holiday Experiences is based on the recognition of the active social role of children in shaping the nature of their holiday experiences and those of their parents and other adults. The volume provides significant insights into the holiday desires, expectations, and...

   Published February 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Tourist Experience

   Contemporary Perspectives

   Edited by Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   To consume tourism is to consume experiences. An understanding of the ways in which tourists experience the places and people they visit is therefore fundamental to the study of the consumption of tourism. Consequently, it is not surprising that attention has long been paid in the tourism...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
7. Marketing of Tourism Experiences

   Edited by Noel Scott, Eric Laws, Philipp Boksberger

   This book provides a review of the current theory and practice of experiential tourism and how it is marketed. Many societies today are characterised by widespread individual wealth of an order previously confined to the elite with the consequence that ownership of ‘ordinary’ physical goods is no...

   Published December 6th 2009 by Routledge
8. Tourism, Performance and the Everyday

   Consuming the Orient

   By Michael Haldrup, Jonas Larsen

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Tourism has become increasingly ‘exotic’, a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore ‘exotic’ holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of...

   Published August 18th 2009 by Routledge
9. Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts

   An Integrated Approach

   By C. Michael Hall, Alan A. Lew

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts. Although tourism can provide significant economic benefits for some destinations, the image of tourism as a benign and environmentally friendly industry has often...

   Published July 8th 2009 by Routledge