Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management
eBook - ePub

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management

About this book

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three crucial areas of tourism - impacts, planning and management.

Tourism impacts are multi-faceted and therefore are difficult to plan for and manage. This title looks at all the key players involved - be they tourists, host communities or industry members - and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism impacts successfully.

Now in a third edition, this bestselling text has been fully revised to include:

  • New material on: terrorism, sustainability, climate change, sex tourism, heritage tourism, theories of tourism planning and GIS.
  • New chapter on Destination Planning and Management
  • Updated tourism data and statistics
  • Case studies on urban tourism, pro-poor tourism, cruise ship tourism, coral reef tourism, historic monuments, eco-labels, codes of conduct and sustainable tourism from both developed and developing regions, including Australia, Iceland, Spain, the UK, Namibia, the Arctic and Antarctica.
  • A companion website including PPTs, video and web links.


The text is written in an accessible style and includes a plethora of features that engage and aid understanding. This accessible yet academically rigorous introduction to tourism impacts, planning and management is essential reading for all tourism students.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of case studies
  8. Preface to the third edition
  9. Acknowledgements: third edition
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. Part I Tourism growth, development and impacts
  13. Part II Tourism planning and management: concepts, issues and players
  14. Part III Tools and techniques in tourism planning and management
  15. Part IV The future of tourism planning and management
  16. References
  17. Index