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Books in the New Directions in Tourism Analysis series

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  • by Priscilla Boniface
    £47.49

    This title examines food and drink tourism, as it is now and is likely to develop, through a cultural "lens". It asks: what is food and drink tourism and why have food and drink provisions and information points become tourist destinations in their own right?

  • - An anthropological perspective
    by Catherine Palmer
    £38.49 - 132.99

  • - Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times
    by Mary Mostafanezhad
    £51.99 - 123.99

  • by Geoffrey Wall & Li Yang
    £47.49 - 137.49

    There is growing concern in many places about how to balance the use of ethnicity as a tourist attraction with the protection of minority cultures and the promotion of ethnic pride. Despite the fact that a substantial literature is devoted to the impacts of ethnic tourism.

  • - A Geographic Perspective
    by Jillian M. Rickly-Boyd, Daniel C. Knudsen & Lisa C. Braverman
    £43.49

    Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographically informed theory of tourism. Such a theory integrates the ways in which places are co-produced, circulated, interpreted, experienced, and performed for and by tourists, tourism boards.

  • - Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
    by Pau Obrador Pons
    £132.99

    Offers a series of insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, including the beach, the island, the tourist resort and the coastal hotel. This book focuses on the 'mass' element and reflects on the 'banal' experiences of the package tourist.

  • by Michael Haldrup, Jonas Larsen, Professor John Urry, et al.
    £47.49

    Looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, this book considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It also examines the circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances.

  • - Tourism, Tourists and Photography
     
    £132.99

    The 'taking' of photographs is one of the most characteristic and symbolic moments in tourism. This book examines the relationships between photography and tourism and tourists. It asks key questions such as: why do tourists take photos of certain things and not of others; why do tourists take photos at all; and, how do photos build places.

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    £119.49

    This text provides an interdisciplinary perspective and overview of the latest conceptual thinking on, and the evolving strategic roles of rural tourism, bringing together a wide range of case studies from the UK, Norway, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Poland and New Zealand by way of illustration.

  • - The Caribbean Experience
     
    £137.49

    The CWC 2007 was the first time in any sport, a World Cup was staged in nine independent countries. Exploring sports event management from a Caribbean, small island developing state perspective, this volume uses the events of the recently held Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) as a launching pad for identifying best practices and the way forward.

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    £132.99

    The northern state of Rajasthan, India, has been successfully marketed as the nation's most heritage-laden, traditional and authentic. This draws heavily on the late 19th and early 20th century years of British rule in India - the Raj. This book explores the cultural politics of tourism in this region through interdisciplinary perspectives.

  • - Pilgrimage during Security Crisis
    by Nurit Kliot, Yoel Mansfeld, Keren Sagi & et al.
    £31.99 - 84.99

    Focuses on a specific pilgrimage voyage - that to the Holy Land during times of security crisis. This book examines this tourism journey in relation to constraints and high levels of risk experienced by the pilgrims. It not only provides insights into pilgrimage as tourism, but also offers an integrative approach to tourism crisis management.

  • - Case Studies from the Indian Ocean Region
     
    £119.49

    A selection of papers discussing trends in the tourism industry. Particular attention is paid to "ecotourism" - travel that combines the preservation of the natural world with sustaining the well-being of the human cultures around it.

  • - Theory, Practice and Cases
    by Evangelos Christou
    £50.99 - 132.99

    Presenting the theory, research and case studies investigating Web 2.0 applications and tools that transform the role and behaviour of the new generation of travellers, this book also examines the ways in which tourism organisations reengineer and implement their business models and operations, such as new service development, and marketing.

  • - Policies and Practices
     
    £123.99

  • - Tourism, Affect and Transformation
     
    £132.99

    What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? This book deals with the emotional dimensions of tourism, travel and contact and the ways in which they can transform tourists, destinations and travel cultures through emotional engagements.

  • - The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape
    by Michelle M. Metro-Roland
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists.

  • - Landscapes of Longing in Egypt
    by Jessica Jacobs
    £50.99

    Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday.

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    £132.99

    Expands readers' knowledge about how tourism planning and policymaking takes place. Challenging traditional notions of tourism planning and policy processes, this book provides critical insights into how theoretical concepts and frameworks are applied in tourism planning and policy making practice at different spatial scales.

  • - Lessons from Cuba
    by Rochelle Spencer
    £47.49

    The interconnections between globalisation, development and tourism are a crucial nexus in analyses of North-South exchange and in relation to 'empire'. Drawing on her experiences working in an NGO in Cuba, the author examines the nature of development, while investigating tourism motivations and experiences.

  • - Beating the Odds?
     
    £132.99

    As an industry, tourism is particularly susceptible to outside events producing negative consumer perceptions. This book provides a conceptual approach to questions such as how tourism businesses prepare for and react to crisis, which measures are taken and what impact they have, and which strategies can be employed to overcome them.

  • - Tourism, Affect and Transformation
     
    £47.49

    While many books have engaged with the structural frames of tourist practice and experience, this is the first to deal with the emotional dimensions of tourism. International scholars from a range of disciplines have come together to explore how the movement to, and through, the realms of exotic people, wild natures, subliminal art, spirit worlds, metropolitan cities and sexualised 'others' variably provoke emotions, peak experiences, travel syndromes and inner dialogues. The authors show how tourism challenges us to engage with concepts of self, other, time, nature, sex, the body and death.

  • - Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
    by Duncan Light
    £47.49 - 132.99

    For many in the West, Romania is synonymous with Count Dracula. Moreover, since the late 1960s Western tourists have travelled to Transylvania on their own searches for the literary and supernatural roots of the Dracula myth. This book examines the way that Romania has negotiated Dracula tourism.

  • - Governance, Development and Lessons from South Africa
    by Scarlett Cornelissen
    £47.49 - 123.99

    Focuses on the political economy of the international tourism sector in the era of globalization and its impact in developing contexts. This book employs a case study analysis of South Africa to assess how international tourism as a global system of trade, production, exchange and governance plays out in developing countries.

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