This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. It challenges the current... Læs mere
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a... Læs mere
This volume provides an overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tourism and the related impacts,... Læs mere
This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about ‘the edges of the world’.
This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel – based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change – is a major trend in future tourism.
This book provides a systematic, country-by-country analysis of tourism policy, planning and organisation in the EU. It applies a conceptual framework to offer a new critical approach to comparative policy analysis in tourism in the EU.
This book presents a new way of understanding heritage tourism that focuses on what people feel and not just what they see. Traditionally, semiotics points to the study... Læs mere
This book explores the paradoxes of Self–Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of... Læs mere
The role of books in framing travel imaginings is an important social and cultural phenomenon. This book explores how reading books influences the... Læs mere
This book explores the ever-changing relationships between bodies, oceans, beaches and tourism. Drawing on feminist scholarship, the book focuses... Læs mere
This book examines the concept of social tourism within a European context. It places social tourism within a historical context of social development in the... Læs mere
This book represents a shifting of emphasis away from the discourse of authenticity to the process of authenticating ethnic tourism. It focuses upon what authentication is,... Læs mere