Tourism

Wellness Tourism

A Destination Perspective

Edited by Cornelia Voigt, Christof Pforr

Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

Core values of society, health and wellbeing impact today on all aspects of our lives, and have also increasingly influenced patterns of tourism consumption and production. In this context wellness has developed into a significant dimension of tourism in a number of new and long established...

To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge

Social Tourism

Perspectives and Potential

Edited by Lynn Minnaert, Robert Maitland, Graham Miller

Social tourism refers to facilitating access to tourism for low income groups and/or the use of tourism as a regeneration and economic stimulation strategy. Although social tourism has its roots in the early 20th Century and is still a major component of the tourism sector in a range of countries,...

Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge

Sexuality, Women, and Tourism

Cross-border desires through contemporary travel

By Susan E. Frohlick

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North...

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies

By Melanie Smith

The extensively revised second edition of Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies provides a new framework for analyzing the complexity of cultural tourism and its increasing globalization in existing as well as emergent destinations of the world. The book will focus in particular on the need for even...

Published October 27th 2009 by Routledge

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World

A Regional Perspective

Edited by Dallen J. Timothy, Gyan P. Nyaupane

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations. The importance of preservation and management of cultural...

Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge

International Tourism

By Yvette Reisinger, Frederic Dimanche

In recent years there has been a considerable interest in the cultural aspects of tourism such as the impacts of culture on tourism planning, development, management and marketing. However, the focus has been on material forms of culture such as arts, music, or crafts. The impacts of national...

Published March 29th 2009 by Routledge

Sports Tourism

Participants, Policy and Providers

By Mike Weed, Chris Bull

Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place. Unlike other texts, it establishes sports tourism as a unique area that...

Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge