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Advances in Tourism


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Tourism has been the fastest growing industry of the last two decades as disposable incomes grow throughout the world.  This series highlights central and topical issues relating to tourism including:
the management and organization of tourism
tourism and development
the benefits and disadvantages of the effects of tourism.

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Justice in Tourism Destinations Avenues for Destination Governance and Management

Justice in Tourism Destinations: Avenues for Destination Governance and Management

1st Edition

Edited By Pooneh Torabian, Julia N. Albrecht
February 28, 2025

This innovative and timely book critically explores and demonstrates how both the tourism system and tourism destinations can adapt and act to mitigate, avoid, or solve injustices in destinations. The volume looks at issues of in/ justices in tourism destination management and governance. This ...

Island Tourism Policy and Sustainable Development

Island Tourism Policy and Sustainable Development

1st Edition

By Michelle T. McLeod
July 11, 2024

This insightful and timely book is the first of its kind to explore specific policies, issues, challenges, and practices that will enhance the sustainable development of tourism in island destinations, including island nations, twin-island nations, and sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs). ...

Ageing and the Visitor Economy Global Challenges and Opportunities

Ageing and the Visitor Economy: Global Challenges and Opportunities

1st Edition

By Stephen J. Page, Joanne Connell
May 27, 2024

This significant volume is the first to use primary research evidence to examine tourism, ageing and the implications of an ageing population for the visitor economy. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book offers insights into the new opportunities, threats and challenges that the growing...

Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour An International Perspective

Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour: An International Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Jun Wen, Metin Kozak
May 27, 2024

Assuming an international perspective, Chinese Tourist Outbound Behaviour presents an insightful exploration of the evolution of China’s tourism market, explores Chinese tourists’ behaviour, and considers how the country’s tourism landscape will expand in the future. Featuring 16 chapters ...

Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment Issues, Challenges and Prospects

Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment: Issues, Challenges and Prospects

1st Edition

Edited By H. Cristina Jönsson
May 27, 2024

This is the first volume to examine and shed significant light on the issues, challenges and prospects presented by foreign direct investment (FDI) in tourism – a topic of increasing relevance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic consequences. This book addresses the need to examine the ...

Hosting the Olympic Games Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy

1st Edition

Edited By Marie Delaplace, Pierre-Olaf Schut
August 15, 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. It draws attention to the debates and ...

Lifelong Learning for Tourism Concepts, Policy and Implementation

Lifelong Learning for Tourism: Concepts, Policy and Implementation

1st Edition

Edited By Violet V. Cuffy, David Airey, Georgios C. Papageorgiou
September 14, 2017

Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess of one billion per annum. Given the global socio-economic significance of tourism, it is imperative to develop educational opportunities for those ...

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

1st Edition

Edited By Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson
May 30, 2017

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 ...

Tourism and Retail The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

Tourism and Retail: The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

1st Edition

Edited By Charles McIntyre
May 30, 2017

Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of ...

Contemporary Tourist Experience Concepts and Consequences

Contemporary Tourist Experience: Concepts and Consequences

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone
May 25, 2017

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 ...

Future Tourism Political, Social and Economic Challenges

Future Tourism: Political, Social and Economic Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By James Leigh, Craig Webster, Stanislav Ivanov
May 25, 2017

This book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is threatening society, and makes suggestions on what the impact will be and how tourism will be changed to integrate with the new ...

Tourist Experience and Fulfilment Insights from Positive Psychology

Tourist Experience and Fulfilment: Insights from Positive Psychology

1st Edition

Edited By Sebastian Filep, Philip Pearce
May 25, 2017

What makes life worth living? Many people would argue that it is fulfilling experiences. These experiences are characterised by feelings of joy and pleasure, positive relationships and a sense of engagement, meaning and achievement. Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial ...

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