Tourism: Rethinking the Social Science of Mobility by C. Michael Hall
A critical and cutting-edge introduction to the major issues surrounding the production and consumption of tourism and its associated effects for the 21st century.
Tourism
Summary
Presents an introduction to the major issues surrounding the production and consumption of tourism and its effects for the 21st century. Tourism is presented as one of the key social science disciplines. This work is useful for students and practitioners in tourism, business studies, geography, and across the social sciences.
Tourism Summary
Tourism Reviews
Carefully designed and well structured... It provides a broad international introduction from a macro-level perspective to tourism development issues and the wider field of tourism studies. ...its comprehensiveness and advice on further reading accompanied by discussion questions at the end of each chapter make it a valuable addition to reading lists for students, practitioners and policy makers in tourism and across the social sciences who want to examine tourism from a more conceptual, innovative and crtical aspect. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, v3 n3 2005
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Scope of Tourism Studies 2. Globalisation and Tourism: Production, Consumption and Identity 3. Tourism Mobilities: Systems, Spatial-interaction and the Space-time Prism of Mobility 4. Place Competition in the Global Economy 5. Governance and State Intervention 6. Developing Destinations 7. Urban Tourism: Development and Issues 8. Tourism in Rural and Peripheral Areas: Development and Issues 9. Coastal and Marine Tourism: Development and Issues 10. The Future of Tourism 11. Tourism, Politics and Security: The New Tourism Agenda? 12. Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Biosecurity and Climate Change 13. The Future of Tourism Studies
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GOR012309854
9780582327894
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Tourism: Rethinking the Social Science of Mobility by C. Michael Hall
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Pearson Education (US)
20050101
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