Tourism Geography [electronic resource] : Critical Understandings of Place, Space and Experience.
For human geographers, a central theme within the discipline is interpreting and understanding our changing world - a world in which geographic patterns are constantly being reworked by powerful forces of change. These forces include population shifts, new patterns of economic production and consump...
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2014.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; List of more online case studies; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction: Tourism and Geography; Chapter 1 Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism; Part II The Emergence of Global Tourism; Chapter 2 The birth of modern tourism; Chapter 3 International patterns of travel and tourism; Part III Tourism's Economic, Environmental and Social Relations; Chapter 4 Costs and benefits: the local economic landscape of tourism; Chapter 5 Tourism, sustainability and environmental change.
- Chapter 6 Socio-cultural relations and experiences in tourismPart IV Understanding Tourism Places and Spaces; Chapter 7 Cultural constructions and invented places; Chapter 8 Theming the urban landscape; Chapter 9 The past as a foreign country: heritage as tourism; Chapter 10 Nature, risk and geographic exploration in tourism; Chapter 11 Consumption, identity and specialty tourisms; Part V Applied and Future Tourism Geographies; Chapter 12 Planning and managing tourism development; Chapter 13 Emerging and future tourism geographies.
- Appendix: a guide to the use of the Internet in tourism geographyGlossary; Bibliography; Index.