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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism
About this book
The first authoritative overview of tourism studies published post-COVID-19
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism remains a definitive reference in this interdisciplinary field. Edited and authored by leading scholars from around the world, this state-of-the-art volume provides a comprehensive critical overview of tourism studies across the social sciences. In-depth yet accessible chapters combine established theories and cutting-edge developments and analysis, addressing a wide range of current and emerging topics, issues, debates, and themes.
The second edition of the Companion reflects the complexity of the changing field, incorporating new developments, diverse theories, core themes, and fresh perspectives throughout. New and revised chapters explore the organization and practice of tourism, pressing health, economic, social, and environmental challenges, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and the tourist industry, empowerment, placemaking, mindfulness and wellbeing, resident attitudes towards tourism, Chinese outbound tourism, public transport, long-distance walking, and more.
- Covers the full spectrum of tourism studies, including its connections to geography, sociology, urban studies, sustainability, marketing, management, globalization, and policy
- Outlines exciting new and emerging approaches, theoretical foundations, and major developments in tourism studies
- Offers perspectives on major topics including the role of tourism in the Anthropocene, global and local change, resilience, innovation, and consumer and business behavior
- Sets an agenda for future tourism research and reviews significant issues in theory, method, and practice
- Features new contributions from an international panel of younger scholars and established researchers
With a wealth of up-to-date bibliographic references and extensive coverage of the tourism-related literature, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism, Second Edition, is required reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers, lecturers, and academic scholars in tourism studies, tourism management, tourism geography, tourism theory, sociology, urban studies, and globalization, as well as professionals working in tourism and hospitality management worldwide.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 Disciplinary and Methodological Perspectives on Tourism
- Part 3 Theories of Tourist Practice, Experience, and Encounter
- Part 4 Producing Tourism and Tourism Spaces
- Part 5 Tourist Attractions Place, Space and Forms
- PART 6 Tourism and Global Change Impacts and Response
- Part 7 Tourism Policies, Planning and Governance
- Part 8 The Influence of Place-narratives on Destination Development
- Index
- EULA