Stephen Williams

Tourism Geography (eBook, PDF)

A New Synthesis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tourism is an intensely geographic phenomenon. It stimulates large-scale, global movement of people and forges distinctive relationships between people and the places they visit. It shapes processes of physical development and resource exploitation, whilst the presence of visitors exerts a range of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts that often have important implications for local geographies.

This second edition of Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of tourism are created and maintained. Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, the discussion - which is in three main parts - connects tourism to key geographical concepts relating to globalization, mobility, new geographies of production and consumption, and post-industrial change. Part one examines how spatial patterns of tourism are formed and evolve through time. Part two offers an extended discussion of how tourism relates to places that are toured, examining physical and economic development, socio-cultural and environmental relations and the role of tourism planning. Part three develops a range of new material for this second edition that considers important contemporary influences upon tourism geographies, including place promotion, new forms of urban tourism, heritage, identity and embodied forms of tourism.

Featuring international case studies and supported by up-to-date statistics, the text offers a concise yet comprehensive review of tourism geography and how geographers can interpret this important contemporary process. Written primarily as a student text, each chapter includes guidance for further study and summary bibliographies that form the basis for independent work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134160419
• Artikelnr.: 43070929

Autorenporträt

Stephen Williams is Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at Staffordshire University, UK. His extensive interests in recreation and tourism are reflected in his publications, which include Outdoor Recreation and the Urban Environment (Routledge), Tourism and Recreation (Prentice Hall) and a four-volume edited work Tourism: critical concepts in the social sciences (Routledge). Alan A. Lew is Professor of Geography, Planning and Recreation at Northern Arizona University, USA. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Tourism Geographies and his publications include World Regional Geography: tourism destinations, human mobilities, sustainable environments (Kendall-Hunt) and Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: an integrated approach (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Tourism, Geography and Geographies of Tourism Part 1: The
Emergence of Global Tourism 2. The Emergence of Modern Tourism Demand 3.
Global Patterns of International Travel and Tourism Supply Part 2:
Economic, Environmental and Social Fundamentals of Tourism 4. Costs and
Benefits: the Physical and Economic Development of Tourism 5. Tourism,
Sustainability and Environmental Change 6. Socio-cultural Relations in
Tourism Part 3: Tourism Places 7. Inventing Places: Theming and Events in
Tourism 8. Urban Tourism in a Changing World 9. History and Heritage as
Tourism Experiences 10. Tourism and Nature: From the Beach to the Jungle
11. Consumption, Identity and Speciality Tourisms Part 4: Applied Tourism
Geographies 12. Planning and Managing Tourism Development 13. Tourism
Geography and the Future of Tourism

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Introduction 1. Tourism, Geography and Geographies of Tourism Part 1: The Emergence of Global Tourism 2. The Emergence of Modern Tourism Demand 3. Global Patterns of International Travel and Tourism Supply Part 2: Economic, Environmental and Social Fundamentals of Tourism 4. Costs and Benefits: the Physical and Economic Development of Tourism 5. Tourism, Sustainability and Environmental Change 6. Socio-cultural Relations in Tourism Part 3: Tourism Places 7. Inventing Places: Theming and Events in Tourism 8. Urban Tourism in a Changing World 9. History and Heritage as Tourism Experiences 10. Tourism and Nature: From the Beach to the Jungle 11. Consumption, Identity and Speciality Tourisms Part 4: Applied Tourism Geographies 12. Planning and Managing Tourism Development 13. Tourism Geography and the Future of Tourism