Key Concepts in Tourist Studies
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Key Concepts in Tourist Studies

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eBook - ePub

Key Concepts in Tourist Studies

About this book

Tourism is the fourth biggest industry in the world. What are the key concepts in Tourist Studies?

This essential resource for students of tourism contains concise and authoritative entries on:

 

• Planning Tourism

• Sustainable Tourism

• Festivals and Events

• Cultural Tourism

• Economics of Tourism

• Regeneration

• The Experience Economy

• Urban Tourism

• Sex Tourism

 

Shrewdly judged to suit the needs of the modern student, the book offers the basic materials, tools and guidance for making sense of tourism and gaining the best results in essays and exams.

 

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Yes, you can access Key Concepts in Tourist Studies by Melanie Smith,Nicola MacLeod,Margaret Hart Robertson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Personal Development & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781412921053, 9781412921046
eBook ISBN
9781446200063
Edition
1
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Sociology

index

acculturation 5, 6, 97, 105, 157
acoustic pollution 146
Adams, R. 66
adventure tourism 147, 162
Adventure Travel Society 168
Agarwal, S. 135
Agenda 21 170
AIDS/HIV 155
African pandemic 27
Aitchison, C. 84
Aktas, G. 26
‘allocentric’ tourists/tourism 18, 20, 106, 151
AlSayyad, N. 130
Amnesty International 81
Angkor, Cambodia 74
anomie 158
anthropology of tourism 5–8, 157
political economy 6, 7–8
semiology 6, 7
social and cultural change 6–7
anti-tourism and backpacking 18
art galleries 9, 10
arts core tourists 11
arts festivals see festival and events tourism
arts peripheral tourists 11
arts tourism 9–13, 30, 32
heritage tourism compared 10–11
Ashworth, G. J. 35, 37, 38, 97, 178–9, 181
Ateljevic, I. 19
ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research) 10, 30
Auschwitz 35, 38
authenticity 5, 13–17, 31, 158
‘constructive’ 14, 15–16
and ‘dark’ tourism 38
‘existential’ 14, 16–17
and film and TV tourism 74
and indigenous/ethnic tourism 106–7
and literary tourism 110
‘objective’ 14–15
and the tourist gaze 176
BabyBoomers generation 91, 112
backpacking 18–21, 102, 151
as anti-tourism 18
enclaves 19
Bakhtin, M. 68
Balamory 73–4
Bali bombings 27
ballet 9
Barber, B. 131
Barcelona 136, 137
Bauman, Z. 117
Beach, The 74
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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Anthropology of Tourism
  8. Arts Tourism
  9. Authenticity
  10. Backpacking
  11. Business Tourism
  12. Crisis Management
  13. Cultural Tourism
  14. Dark Tourism
  15. Destination Management
  16. Economics of Tourism
  17. Ecotourism
  18. Ethical Tourism
  19. e-Tourism
  20. Experience Economy
  21. Festivals and Events Tourism
  22. Film and TV Tourism
  23. Gastronomic Tourism
  24. Gay Tourism
  25. Geography of Tourism
  26. Health and Wellness Tourism
  27. Heritage Tourism
  28. Identity
  29. Indigenous Tourism
  30. Literary Tourism
  31. Mature Tourism
  32. Mobility
  33. Neo-colonialism
  34. Planning Tourism
  35. Post-tourism
  36. Regeneration
  37. Religious and Spiritual Tourism
  38. Rural Tourism
  39. Self and Other
  40. Sex Tourism
  41. Sociology of Tourism
  42. Special Interest Tourism
  43. Sports and Adventure Tourism
  44. Sustainable Tourism
  45. Tourist Gaze
  46. Urban Tourism
  47. References
  48. Index