Books in the Routledge Advances in Tourism series

This book provides an in-depth examination of slow food, tourism and cities, demonstrating how these elements are intertwined with each other and the larger slow movement, as part of the modern search for "the good life." While slow tourism has been present as a concept and practice for years, organizationally and conceptually its principles are still emerging. This book systematically treats food, cities and tourism within the context of the larger alternative lifestyle movement with examples from Europe, USA and Brazil. Part 1 locates the `slow¿ concept within the larger social setting of modernity and investigates claims made by the slow movement. It examines both the aesthetic and instrumental values behind the movement. Part 2 explores the practices and places of slow, containing both conceptual and empirical chapters. Finally, part 3 looks at the emergence of slow food, tourism and cities in a comparative perspective by examining the practices from Spain, UK, Germany and Brazil.

This book advances the current literature on destination marketing by using innovative up-to-date case studies from a wide geographical representation.

The book focuses on the theoretical, policy and practice linkages and disjunctures between tourism and creative industry sectors.

This book contributes to the clarification and systemisation of modern notions of tourism, examining the trend of globalisation to provide a review of contemporary tourism challenges.

This book uniquely focuses on the supply side of wellness tourism from a destination perspective in terms of the generation and delivery of wellness tourism products and services to cater for tourists who seek to maintain and improve their health. By doing so this provides a better understanding of the way in which wellness tourism destinations develop, explore the specific drivers of that growth in a destination context and how destinations successfully compete against each other in globalised market place. This timely volume will be of interest to tourism and hospitality students and academics internationally.

This book applies knowledge management and social network theories to the business of tourism to shed light on successful operations of tourism knowledge networks.

Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, this book combines perspectives in human geography and tourism to present cultural landscapes of tourist destinations as socially constructed.

In today¿s highly competitive and global economy, understanding tourist behavior is imperative to success. Tourist behavior has become a cornerstone of any marketing strategy and action. This book provides an overview of such processes and influences and explains the concepts and theories that underlie tourist decision making and behavior.

Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, this book combines perspectives in human geography and tourism to present cultural landscapes of tourist destinations as socially constructed.

The Caribbean is one of the most tourism dependent regions of the world. This book explores tourism in the region within the context of Caribbean thought and critique in relation to issues of dependency, postcolonial interactions, race and class as well as identity and culture.

This book draws together a group of international experts in order to develop a better understanding of the role, development and future of gastronomy and culinary heritage in tourism.

Provides evidence of continuing advancement and development of knowledge pertaining to the phenomenon of hospitality. This book features chapters which represent a grouping of leading academics who lend their expertise to apply as a social lens through which to view, analyse, and explore hospitality within a range of contexts.

Aims to evaluate the contemporary progress of theoretical approaches to tourism marketing. This book also seeks to show the ways to further develop the concept of tourism marketing for application within tourist destinations and individual businesses, and evaluate its potential impact on performance improvement.

Introduces an approach to the analysis and management of growth in small tourism markets for regional and rural locations. This book recognizes from the outset that the vast bulk of the tourism industry's product is delivered by small business enterprises and that many of these are located outside of metropolitan areas.

China is forecast to be the primary tourist destination and tourist-generating country by 2020. This book provides a voice to Chinese mainland academic researchers and examines the nature of tourism research and tourism development in China. It is suitable for scholars and students of tourism throughout the world.

This book contributes to the clarification and systemisation of modern notions of tourism, examining the trend of globalisation to provide a review of contemporary tourism challenges.

This work explores the theory and practice of contemporary tourism development, offering alternative approaches to theory and policy issues and extending research into newly emerging tourist destinations.

Explains the basic concepts and theories that underlie tourist decision-making and behavior. This book incorporates a number of cases studies in order to aid readers to better appraise the application of those concepts and theories. It is suitable for researchers and students in tourism, leisure, marketing and psychology.

There are various concerns over the relationship between tourism and sustainable development. This book assesses the sustainability paradigm and outlines the ways in which sustainable tourism is possible, offering key insights into the fundamental shifts in operations, systems and philosophies that need to take place.

Offers a comprehensive perspective on progress towards the objectives of sustainable development within the tourism sector across the globe by focusing on the environmental performance and adoption of environmental management systems by tourism enterprises.

Reflects the importance of heritage to cities, and cities to the creation and marketing of heritage products, not least within tourism. This book presents a review of the state of urban heritage tourism at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Explores through a series of case studies that involve the conflict in China, the US, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations. This book is divided into 'acts', 'Acts of Resource Management', 'Acts of Silence', 'Acts of Discovery and Rediscovery', 'Acts of Imagination' and 'Acts of Remembrance'.

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive review of complex tourism issues from a sociological perspective. It introduces various theoretical and empirical approaches and includes international contributions and diverse perspectives.

This book draws together a group of international experts in order to develop a better understanding of the role, development and future of gastronomy and culinary heritage in tourism.

Fresh approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable 'critical turn' - a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. This volume includes chapters which reflect this critical school of tourism studies. It addresses the power relations underpinning the production of academic knowledge.

This collection of international case studies addresses the crucial issue of sustainable tourism development by asking what local communities can contribute to sustainable tourism, and what sustainability can offer communities in return.

This collection of international case studies addresses the crucial issue of sustainable tourism development by asking what local communities can contribute to sustainable tourism, and what sustainability can offer communities in return.

This book comments on the complexities of Mediterranean tourism, with contributions from researchers consultants, managers and advisors from thirteen countries.

This work explores the theory and practice of contemporary tourism development, offering alternative approaches to theory and policy issues and extending research into newly emerging tourist destinations.

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive review of complex tourism issues from a sociological perspective. It introduces various theoretical and empirical approaches and includes international contributions and diverse perspectives.