Books in the Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility series

The Practice of Sustainable Tourism is a unique text that confronts the apparently irresolvable tensions between tourism and true sustainability.

This book analyses the impact of economic, social and environmental changes on destination management, governance and development. Emphasis is given on resilient thinking and strategic management techniques in order to unlock the inner potential of destinations to respond positively to change.

How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible tourism encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee-cultivating communities in Nicaragua, providing a conceptual tool to facilitate reflection on alternative ways of doing togetherness between ourselves.

The book examines the perspectives, experiences and insights of those who work in the field of war heritage in the region of Normandy where the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy occurred.

This book investigates how diasporic communities, transnational migrants, refugees, the internally displaced recreate home in their host place of residence through material culture, performativity, social relations; and how involuntary tangible and intangible stimuli evoke memories of home.

This book looks at urban tourism as a source of contention and analyses conflicts that have emerged in cities of the Global North and South, exploring the various ways in which community groups, residents and other organizations have responded to - and challenged - tourism development in an international, comparative perspective.

Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africäs tourism trajectory and future. It offers a uniquely optimistic outlook for tourism in Africa whilst acknowledging the many challenges that African countries continue to grapple with.

Tourism and Hospitality in Conflict-ridden Destinations provides insight into the various types of current and post¿conflict destinations worldwide and the steps that might be taken to transform them into future tourist destinations.

Overtourism explores this growing tourism phenomenon which is currently creating tensions in tourist destinations worldwide. This volume proposes a framework for possible solutions and management strategies for dealing with `overtourism¿ and the various negative impacts that large quantities of tourists can impose.

This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices.

This timely and significant book explores the characteristics and complexities of Asian urban tourism, considering the extent to which Western paradigms can be transferred to Asian settings and the striking contrasts that exist within the region.

This significant volume is the first to focus on both the changing nature of tourism and the capacity of tourism to effect change, especially in the Global South.

This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns. This edited volume will be of great interest to upper-level students, academics and researchers in tourism, urban studies, and land use planning.

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.