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A companion to tourism / edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams
(Blackwell companions to geography)

Publisher	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
Year	2004
Authors	Lew, Alan A Hall, Colin Michael 1961- Williams, Allan M

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00188323		Wiley Online Library (電子ブック)	9780470752265

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (xviii, 622 pages) : illustrations
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index Tourism: conceptualizations, institutions, and issues -- The measurements of global tourism: old debates, new consensus, and continuing challenges -- Tourist flows and the spatial distribution of tourists -- Behavioral approaches in tourism research -- Toward a political economy of tourism -- Cultural geographies of tourism -- Tourist practices and performances -- The cultural turn? Toward a more critical economic geography of tourism -- Transnational corporations, globalization, and tourism -- Entrepreneurial cultures and small business enterprises in tourism -- Labor mobility and market structure in tourism -- Transport and tourism -- The tourism area life cycle in the twenty-first century -- Problematizing place promotion -- Tourism, information technology, and development: revolution or reinforcement? -- Theming, tourism, and fantasy city -- Whose tourist-historic city? Localizing the global and globalizing the local -- Urban tourism: between the global and the local -- Postcolonialism, colonialism, and tourism -- Indigenous people and tourism -- Tourism motivations and typologies -- Tourism, modernity, and postmodernity -- Cultural circuits of tourism: commodities, place and re-consumption -- Narratives of being elsewhere: tourism and travel writing -- Gender and sexuality in tourism research -- The souvenir: conceptualizing the object(s) of tourist consumption -- Tourism and landscape -- The beach as a liminal space -- Tourism, shopping, and retailing: an axiomatic relationship? -- Tourism and the countryside -- Mobility, tourism, and second homes -- Gaming and tourism: issues for the new millennium -- Geographic perspectives on event tourism -- Tourism and the natural environment -- Tourism and touristic representations of nature -- Environmental impacts of tourism -- Tourism and resource management -- National parks: wilderness and culture -- Ecotourism: theory and practice -- Tourism, sustainability, and social theory -- Tourism and the elusive paradigm of sustainable development -- Tourism and public policy -- Partnerships, participation, and social science research in tourism planning -- Local and regional tourism policy and power -- Tourism communities and growth management -- Political boundaries and regional cooperation in tourism -- GIS applications in the planning and management of tourism -- Contemporary themes and challenges in tourism research This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for tourism. Comprising 48 specially commissioned essays, written by more than 50 acknowledged experts from around the world, it provides a critical review of current research in the field. The Companion takes readers to the frontiers of tourism research, covering current perspectives and topics. Within the Companion a broad range of issues are covered, including tourism's role in globalization, localization and contested places; the values, motivations and experiences of tourists; tourism, society and the environment, including sustainable tourism; and tourism policies, governance and the state's role in tourism development. The volume also sets an agenda for future tourism research Print version record John Wiley and Sons Wiley Online Library: Complete oBooks HTTP:URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470752272
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Classification	LCC:G155.A1 DC22:910/.01
ID	8000087570
ISBN	9780470752265