Contemporary Tourism
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Contemporary Tourism

An international approach

  1. 412 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Contemporary Tourism

An international approach

About this book

The study of tourism and indeed the tourism industry is changing constantly. Now in its third edition, Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, considering issues such as economic, financial and environmental crisis, destination marketing, governance issues, the tourist experience and product development. In particular, it highlights the ongoing threats and opportunities faced by the tourism industry today, and discusses the related security, service and risk management strategies, illustrating the potential implications for the patterns and flow of tourism in the future. Divided into five sections, each chapter has a thorough learning structure including chapter objectives, examples, discussion points, self review questions, checklists and case studies. URL links are heavily present throughout the text so that users of both hard and electronic formats can have direct links to up to date, authoritative and annotated sources of information. Cases are both thematic and destination-based and always international. They are used to emphasise the relationship between general principles and the practice of tourism looking at areas such as business and special interest tourism and the role of technology. The five sections cover: Contemporary Tourism Systems; The Contemporary Tourist; The Contemporary Tourist Destination; The Contemporary Tourism Industry; and Tourism Futures. New to this edition: * URL links throughout the text, so that readers have access to up to date sources of information. * Brand new and updated case studies and examination of key current issues including the role of service-dominant logic in tourism businesses; tourism servicescapes; governance; impacts and environmental change; tourism and urban regeneration; the tourism value chain; tourism and crisis; researching social media; crowd-sourced strategies; the millennial tourist generation and green growth and sustainable tourism. * Substantial support for both students and teachers, both within the text itself and via web-based student and instructor resources.

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Information

Publisher
Goodfellow Publishers
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781906884253
9781910158586
Edition
3
eBook ISBN
9781910158609
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
Index
Business
Section 
1: 
Contemporary 
Tourism 
Systems
1 
Contemporary 
Tourism 
Systems
Chapter 
objectives 
After 
reading 
this 
chapter 
you 
will:

Understand 
the 
core 
elements 
in 
the 
service 
dimension 
of 
tourism.

Understand 
that 
the 
tourism 
experience 
does 
not 
exist 
independently 
of 
the 
interaction 
of 
tourism 
consumers 
and 
producers.

Recognise 
the 
different 
stages 
in 
the 
tourism 
system 
and 
their 
implication 
for 
the 
tourist 
experience.

Appreciate 
the 
importance 
of 
scale 
of 
analysis 
in 
studying 
tourism.

Identify 
some 
of 
the 
key 
constraints 
on 
tourism 
related 
travel.

Understand 
the 
characteristics 
that 
are 
used 
to 
dene 
concepts 
of 
tourism, 
tourist 
and 
mobility.
Introduction
Contemporary 
tourism 
is 
at 
the 
same 
time 
one 
of 
the 
most 
signicant 
yet 
misun-
derstood 
phenomenon 
in 
the 
world 
today. 
It 
is 
something 
that 
is 
engaged 
in 
by 
many 
people 
in 
the 
developed 
world, 
and 
increasingly 
in 
developing 
countries, 
and 
is 
regarded 
as 
an 
important 
mechanism 
for 
economic 
development. 
The 
extent 
of 
tourism 
activities 
across 
the 
globe 
and 
the 
sheer 
number 
of 
people 
who 
travel 
mean 
that 
tourism 
is 
often 
described 
as 
one 
of 
the 
world’s 
largest 
industries 
as 
we 
discuss 
in 
Chapter 
10. 
Yet 
tourism 
is 
simultaneously 
an 
agent 
of 
socio-cultural, 

Table of contents

  1. Section 1: Contemporary Tourism Systems
  2. 1 Contemporary Tourism Systems
  3. 2 Contemporary Tourism Product Markets
  4. 3 Contemporary Tourists, Tourist Behaviour and Flows
  5. 4 Contemporary Tourism Marketing
  6. 5 Delivering the Contemporary Tourism Product: the Destination
  7. 6 Governing the Contemporary Tourism Product: the Role of the Public Sector and Tourism Policy
  8. 7 Consequences of Visitation at the Contemporary Destination
  9. 8 Planning and Managing the Contemporary Destination
  10. 9 Marketing and Branding the Contemporary Destination
  11. 10 The Scope of the Contemporary Tourism Sector
  12. 11 The Tourism Industry: Contemporary Issues
  13. 12 Supporting the Contemporary Tourism Product – Tourism Service Management
  14. 13 Tourism in the 21st Century – Contemporary Tourism in an Uncertain World
  15. I Index
  16. _GoBack

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