Geography

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

Series: Advances in Tourism

This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as...

Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge

Tourism and Poverty

By Regina Scheyvens

Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

Tourism and Poverty addresses a critical question facing many academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies around the world: can tourism work as a tool to overcome poverty? This book is the first to present a focused description and critique of the issues...

Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge

The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies

Creating an Academy of Hope

Edited by Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, Annette Pritchard

Series: Advances in Tourism

In today’s increasingly complex tourism environment, decision-making requires a rounded, well-informed view of the whole. Critical distance should be encouraged, consultation and intellectual rigour should be the norm amongst managers and there needs to be a radical shift in our approach to...

Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge

Medical Tourism

The Ethics, Regulation, and Marketing of Health Mobility

Edited by C. Michael Hall

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

Liminal Landscapes

Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

Edited by Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Tourism and Change in Polar Regions

Climate, Environments and Experiences

By Michael Hall, Jarkko Saarinen

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 14th 2010 by Routledge

Fieldwork in Tourism

Methods, Issues and Reflections

Edited by Michael C. Hall

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 8th 2010 by Routledge

Tourism and India

A Critical Introduction

By Kevin Hannam, Anya Diekmann

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Tourism to and within India has undergone some important changes in recent years seen by the rising numbers of international tourists and increase in domestic tourism. This has led to the redevelopment and rebranding of many of its destinations as the Indian government has begun to recognise the...

Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge

Tourism and Agriculture

New Geographies of Consumption, Production and Rural Restructuring

Edited by Rebecca Torres, Janet Momsen

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is...

Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge

Tourism and National Identities

An International Perspective

Edited by Elspeth Frew, Leanne White

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

By understanding tourist destinations through the lens of national identity, the tourist may develop a deeper appreciation of the destination. Further, tourism marketers and planners may be better equipped to promote and manage the destination, particularly with regard to expectations of the...

Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge

Tourism, Climate Change and Sustainability

Edited by Vijay Reddy, Keith Wilkes

This book addresses many of the key themes that are seen as challenges to achieve sustainability and to mitigate climate change impacts in the near future, in the tourism sector. In particular it focuses on the economic drivers for growth in tourism as they relate to sustainable development,...

Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities

Edited by Peter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller

The 21st century seems to be on the move, perhaps even more so than the last. With cheap travel, and more than two billion cars projected worldwide for 2030, more people and more goods are moving ever faster, farther and more frequently. However, all this moving about is happening incredibly...

To Be Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment

Edited by Andrew Holden, David Fennell

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies inherent to tourism’s relationship with nature, especially pertinent at a time of major re-evaluation of our relationship with the environment as a consequence of the environmental...

Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies

Edited by Julie Wilson

Geographical analysis of tourism spaces and places is advancing fast. In terms of human geography, the various recent academic ‘turns’ have led to fresh examination of existing debates and have advanced new theoretical ideas in geography that are more salient than ever for tourism studies. The...

Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Events

Edited by Stephen Page, Joanne Connell

The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with this rapidly expanding discipline. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical...

Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Tourism and National Parks

International Perspectives on Development, Histories and Change

Edited by Warwick Frost, C. Michael Hall

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

In 1872 Yellowstone was established as a National Park. The name caught the public’s imagination and by the close of the century, other National Parks had been declared, not only in the USA, but also in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Yet as it has spread, the concept has evolved and...

Published March 12th 2009 by Routledge

Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development

International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda

Edited by David Leslie

Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of tourism considered more environmentally friendly: green, eco-tourism, and sustainable tourism. Much of the literature that has...

Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge

Tourist Mobility and Advanced Tracking Technologies

By Noam Shoval, Michal Isaacson

Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

The remarkable developments in tracking technologies over the past decade have opened up a wealth of possibilities in terms of research into tourist spatial behaviour. To date, most research in the field has been based on data derived from less objective – hence methodologically...

Published August 16th 2009 by Routledge

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

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 July 25th 2010 by Routledge

Tourism at the Grassroots

Villagers and Visitors in the Asia-Pacific

Edited by John Connell, Barbara Rugendyke

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. Moreover, the shift towards ecotourism, touted as a more environmentally benign form of tourism, has extended the...

Published February 29th 2008 by Routledge

World Tourism Cities

Developing Tourism Off the Beaten Track

Edited by Robert Maitland, Peter Newman

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

This book presents new research on the capacity of big cities to generate new tourism areas as visitors discover and help create new urban experiences off the beaten track. It examines similarities and differences in these processes in a group of established world cities located in the global...

Published December 7th 2008 by Routledge

European Forest Recreation and Tourism

A Handbook

Edited by Simon Bell, Murray Simpson, Lisa Tyrväinen, Tuija Sievänen, Ulrike Pröbstl

In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. Planning and providing for this growing demand poses challenges that need to be addressed by managers and designers alike. Based on a study of forest recreation from across...

Published December 11th 2008 by Taylor & Francis

Ecotourism, NGOs and Development

A Critical Analysis

By Jim Butcher

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Ecotourism has emerged over the last twenty years not just as a market niche, but also as a strategy for combining development with conservation in the developing world. Ecotourism, NGOs and Development considers the basis for advocacy and argues that it is premised upon a very limited and...

Published March 7th 2007 by Routledge

Tourism and the Consumption of Wildlife

Hunting, Shooting and Sport Fishing

Edited by Brent Lovelock

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Consumptive forms of wildlife tourism (hunting, shooting and fishing) have become a topic of interest – both to the tourism industry, in terms of destinations seeking to establish or grow this sector, and to other stakeholders such as environmental organisations, animal-rights groups, and the...

Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge

Tourism, Creativity and Development

Edited by Greg Richards, Julie Wilson

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Destinations across the world are beginning to replace or supplement culture-led development strategies with creative development. This book critically analyzes the impact and effectiveness of creative strategies in tourism development and charts the emergence of 'creative tourism'. Why has ‘...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge