Authors:Timothy Coles, Dallen J. Timothy,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: tourism, leisure, mobility, geographies, contemporary, diasporas, space
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-07-15
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0415311241
ISBN-13: 9780415311243

The book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production, and practices of tourism.

Authors:Derek Hall, Lesley Roberts, Morag Mitchell,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: tourism, new, directions, analysis, rural
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-03
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 075463633X
ISBN-13: 9780754636335

Although there has been an increasing interest in rural tourism in terms of research, training and teaching, its conceptualization and the relationships between concept and strategy are still poorly represented and not well understood. The need for such a critical understanding is particularly crucial now as rural areas experience rapid change and as tourism is viewed as a potentially key element of development and regeneration. This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective and overview of the latest conceptual thinking on, and the evolving strategic roles of rural tourism, bringing toge

Authors:Dimitrios Buhalis, Carlos Costa,
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: tourism, management, futures, tools, dynamics, trends
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-09-22
List price: $70.95
ISBN-10: 0750663782
ISBN-13: 9780750663786

As the global tourism industry continues to expand and to become more complex, it is vital that those in the industry identify trends early and design proactive strategies to gain competitive advantage. Tourism Futures: dynamics, challenges and tools provides the readers with a comprehensive insight of the changes in the external business environment, and equips them with new managerial techniques and tools in order to adapt and profit from these changes and into the future. Written by a team of globally renowned thinkers and researchers, it provides the manager of tomorrow with the ability t

Authors:Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper,
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Keywords: tourism, aspects, springs, spas, health, wellness
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 1845411129
ISBN-13: 9781845411121

The use of natural geothermal springs in the treatment of illness and the promotion of wellness (thermalism, balneology) forms the foundation for a discussion of the development and growth of health and wellness tourism in this book. A range of perspectives are explored, including usage, heritage, management, technology, environmental and cultural features, and marketing.

Authors:Kevin Wong, Haiyan Song,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: tourism, marketing, amp, travel, journal, published, forecasting, monograph, simultaneously
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2003-06-05
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0789020874
ISBN-13: 9780789020871

Stay up to date with the most effective practices in tourism demand forecasting! Tourism Forecasting and Marketing presents vital, up-to-date research on the latest practice and applications of tourism demand modeling and forecasting. The book addresses both econometric and time series approaches to forecasting, focusing on the concepts, model specification, data analysis, and methodologies used in day-to-day tourism planning. An international panel of practitioners and academics call on a diverse range of empirical research findings to discuss commonly used theoretical frameworks for forecast

Authors:G. Dann, G. Dann,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: tourism, social, science, developments, origins, european, sociology
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2009-12-10
List price: $144.95
ISBN-10: 1846639883
ISBN-13: 9781846639883

Currently there is abundant evidence of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism by academics from the English-speaking world, a situation that appears to be aided and abetted by the publishers of books and articles in that language. This volume is the first attempt of its kind to familiarise readers in the US, UK, Australia and the English speaking regions of Africa and Asia with such evolutionary thinking. In such a manner, also, it will be possible to discern, contextualize and better appreciate the European roots of subsequent theorising in the Anglophone wor

Authors:Liping A. Cai, Liping A. Cai, William C. Gartner, Ana
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: tourism, practice, theory, bridging, branding
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2009-12-21
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 1849507201
ISBN-13: 9781849507202

Academic studies have predominantly treated destination branding as a marketing phenomenon that happens to involve tourists as customers in a marketplace. "Tourism Branding: Communities in Action", the first volume in a new and exciting book series, considers a traditional marketing subject from multidisciplinary perspectives. Refreshingly this book attempts to free branding research and practice in tourism fields from the shackles of marketing that are dominated by the conventional approach of product, price, place, and promotion. Considering tourism branding as a community affair, this colle