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Advances in Tourism Advances in Tourism Destination Marketing: Managing Networks (Hardcover)

This volume provides original insight into the operational opportunities challenges and constraints in managing Tourism Destination Marketing. It explores how the various tourist destination systems including tourist places (as seen by the tourist)... more

Advances in Tourism Sustainable Tourism in Rural Europe: Approaches to Development (Hardcover)

Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry. That said it remains highly sensitive and fragile in terms of environmental social economic and cultural... more

Routledge Advances in Tourism Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites (Hardcover)

Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites explores how the terrible legacy of Nazi criminality is experienced by tourists bridging the gap between cultural criminology and tourism studies to make a significant contribution to our understanding of how Nazi... more

Advances in Tourism Research Tourism and Entrepreneurship (Paperback)

Tourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives provides an innovative interdisciplinary approach. This book takes as its central theme the role of entrepreneurship in the context of regional local and national tourism development. By engaging... more

Routledge Advances in Tourism Tourists Tourism and the Good Life (Hardcover)

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... more

Routledge Advances in Tourism New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism (Paperback)

The Caribbean is one of the most tourism dependent regions of the world. This edited volume extends beyond the frontiers of normative perspectives of tourism development to incorporate new ideas and perspectives that relate to the socio-cultural... more

Advances in Tourism Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism (Hardcover)

Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the industry. There have been numerous texts written on sustainable... more

Advances in Tourism The Cultural Moment in Tourism (Hardcover)

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... more

Routledge Advances in Tourism Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development: International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda (Hardcover)

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... more

Advances in Tourism The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies (Hardcover)

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... more

Food Agri-Culture and Tourism: Linking Local Gastronomy and Rural Tourism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover)

This book will be a valuable source of information for those concerned with rural and farm tourism sustainable tourism and the marketing of Calibri >local gastronomy. It presents cases with an international and interdisciplinary approach in order to... more

Tourism and Cultural Change: Coffee Culture Destinations and Tourism (Hardcover)

This book explores the various aspects of coffee culture around the globe relating the rich history of this beverage and the surroundings where it is produced and consumed to coffee destination development and to the visitor experience. Coffee and... more

Aspects of Tourism Texts: Human Resources and Tourism: Skills Culture and Industry (Paperback)

The tourism industry provides employment for literally millions of individuals. Despite global recessions terrorist attacks and other catastrophes this is likely to remain unchanged in the long-term. Resilience of this nature helps tourism remain a... more

Routledge Advances in Tourism Tourist Shopping Villages: Forms and Functions (Hardcover)

Shopping is perhaps the most universal of tourist activities. Tourists form a separate retailing segment from the general population and place importance on different products and product attributes contributing billions of dollars each year for both... more

Advances in Tourism International Sports Events: Impacts Experiences and Identities (Hardcover)

This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs) examining the relationship between sport tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators based on three primary themes:... more

Continuum Advances in Religious Studies: Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society (Hardcover)

This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe and... more

Advances in Tourism Economics: New Developments (Hardcover)

Advances in Tourism Economics: New Developments more

Routledge Advances in Tourism Managing and Marketing Tourist Destinations: Strategies to Gain a Competitive Edge (Hardcover)

Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services. The basis of competitive advantage shifts from tourism resources only (destination marketing) to a location-based or city-wide integrated management (place marketing). In this... more

Advances in Tourism Tourist Experience: Contemporary Perspectives (Hardcover)

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... more

International Perspectives Of Festivals And Events (Advances In Tourism Research) - Ali-Knight Jane

International Perspectives Of Festivals And Events Addresses Contemporary Issues Concerning The Potential Of Festivals And Events To Produce Economic Social Cultural And Community Benefits. Incorporating A Range Of International Perspectives The Book... more

Routledge Advances in Climate Change Res Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa (Hardcover)

This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa its impacts on tourism and the resilience adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments. Previous studies on climate change and tourism have mainly... more

Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture: The Business of Tourism (Paperback)

Emphasizing the economic and cultural dimensions of travel The Business of Tourism explores the enterprises and technologies of tourist activity with a particular focus on tourism as a phenomenon through which nations regions and individuals produce... more

Places of the Imagination: Media Tourism Culture (Hardcover)

Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of this form of media tourism exploring the... more

Tourism and Visual Culture (Hardcover)

The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon is growing in importance as it receives recognition as a force far more significant than economic environmental and social analyses convey. This volume explores the significance of tourism as a... more

Contemporary Geographies of Leisure Tou Real Tourism: Practice Care and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture (Hardcover)

Over the past decade tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has... more

Japan Anthropology Workshop Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture (Hardcover)

This book examines Japanese tourism and travel both today and in the past showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers... more

Premier Reference Source: Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies Applications and Management Approaches (Hardcover)

In the digital world of the knowledge society developing the infrastructures required to provide citizens with access to cultural content and tourism services demands a multi-fold analysis of social business and technological factors. Digital Culture... more

Dixie Emporium: Tourism Foodways and Consumer Culture in the American South (Paperback)

This collection of ten essays focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. The cultural ironies and contradictions that have arisen from southerners efforts to commodify their identity reveal regional anxieties about consumerism... more

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics: Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability: Fifth International Conference Iacudit Athens 2018 (Hardcover)

Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability: Fifth International Conference Iacudit Athens 2018 more

Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place Tourism and Belonging (Paperback)

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization digitization and an... more

Malawi Culture and Art the African Tradition: Travel Guide Tourism Environment People and Ethnic (Paperback)

Malawi Culture and Art the African Tradition. Travel Guide Tourism Environment People and Ethnic. The Malawi people are of Bantu origin and comprise of many different ethnic groups. These include Chewa Nyanja Yao Tumbuka Lomwe Sena Tonga Ngoni Ngonde... more

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism (Paperback)

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. It examines current debates questions and controversies of tourism in the wake of popular culture phenomena and explores the... more

Advances in (Im)Politeness Studies: Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts (Hardcover)

This book explores the extent to which self-praise is acceptable in both offline and online contexts across different genres platforms and cultural backgrounds. The data analyzed encompass both naturally occurring (daily conversation as well as... more

Routledge Advances in International Rela Culture and International Relations: Narratives Natives and Tourists (Paperback)

Culture and International Relations contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture. The author challenges the notion that IR has only been... more

Advances in Sociolinguistics: Globalization of Language and Culture in Asia: The Impact of Globalization Processes on Language (Hardcover)

The impact of globalization processes on language is an emergent field in sociolinguistics. To date there has not been an in-depth look at this in Asia although Asia includes the two most populous globalizing economies of the world India and China.... more

Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing: Organizational Culture Business-to-Business Relationships and Interfirm Networks (Hardcover)

Provides in-depth understanding about business-to-business (B2B) and organizational relationships. This title includes descriptions on how B2B networks form function and develop and is for readers who want to delve into how B2B relationships actually... more

Routledge Advances in Game Studies Independent Videogames: Cultures Networks Techniques and Politics (Paperback)

Independent Videogames investigates the social and cultural implications of contemporary forms of independent video game development. Through a series of case studies and theoretical investigations it evaluates the significance of such a multi-faceted... more

Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies a Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play Book 8 (Hardcover)

How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore straight versus queer contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time as co-players and researchers? Gender and Sexuality... more