Books in the Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management series

Examines the commercial home from an international perspective, focusing on the various forms of commercial accommodation including farmstays, historic houses, and self-catering accommodation. This title helps to explain a range of behaviours and practices, for example the importance of setting and the nature of the host/guest exchange.

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people. This book aims to critically explore how tourism economic development can move closer to a sustainable ideal from a firm Economic analytic anchor.

The aim of this book is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and crises. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism, environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis, highlighting different types of "crises". In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local, national and regional economies from a range of perspectives. Written by leading academics in the field this book offers valuable insight into tourism¿s relationship with socio ¿ cultural, environment, economic and political crisis as well as the challenges facing future tourism development.

The Economics of Sustainable Tourism aims to critically explore how tourism economic development can move closer to a sustainable ideal from a firm Economic analytic anchor. Grounded in Economic theory and application it analyses tourist¿s satisfaction and impacts of tourism on the host community, investigates the productivity of the industry and identify factors which could increase economic & sustainable development such as trade relationships. It offers further insight into how destinations sustainability can be measured, economic benefits of a more sustainable destination and sets the agenda for future research. The book includes range of theoretical and empirical perspectives and includes cutting edge research from international scholars.This significant volume provides a new perspective on the sustainable tourism debate and will be a valuable read for students, researcher, academics of Tourism and Economics.

The aim of this book is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and crises. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism, environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis, highlighting different types of "crises". In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local, national and regional economies from a range of perspectives. Written by leading academics in the field this book offers valuable insight into tourism¿s relationship with socio ¿ cultural, environment, economic and political crisis as well as the challenges facing future tourism development.