Tourism and Poverty addresses a critical question facing many academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies around the world: can tourism work as a tool to overcome poverty? This book is the first to present a focused description and critiq…
"It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social pra…
Written for HND and undergraduate students, this text offers a practical guide to the methodology and techniques of conducting research specifically in leisure and tourism fields.
This textbook combines comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods with in-depth step-by step guidance through research software including Excel, SPSS and NVivo.
This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. Issu…
"More people are travelling now than ever before, and few places exist in the world that have not been penetrated by tourism. Every year millions of people travel across political boundaries seeking encounters with cultural and natural environments different than their own. Bord…
Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Glo…
Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry deals with a range of topics: commencing with a basic introduction to management accounting; and ending with capital investment decisions. The objective of the author is to provide an introduction to the basic management a…
The symposium brought together tourism, hospitality and leisure researchers from around the world to report research, share ideas, and advance consumer psychology and consumer behaviour theory in this important economic sector. In this sector, consumption is characterized by alm…
The central theme of Improving Tourism and Hospitality Services is rooted in the author’s belief that the main issue for tourism and hospitality managers as the twenty-first century begins should be improving the nature and quality of experiences for the industry’s clients, its …
The service sector is considered to lag behind manufacturing in introducing quality management cultures. The leisure and tourism industry has tended to beeven more dilatory, and so quality management was not given a high priority until recently. This book aims to develop an awar…
"This book aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the theories and principles of service quality within the context of leisure and tourism. It examines the characteristics of service delivery and their implications for the management of service quality in the leisure and…
This book aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the theories and principles of service quality within the context of leisure and tourism. Suitable for students, researchers, leisure and tourism professionals, it relates the nature of the consumer experience to the plann…
This book reviews the theory and practice of tourism and recreation in rural areas in Europe. Including numerous case studies, 9 chapters cover: the changing nature of recreation and tourism provision in rural areas; the emergence of sustainability in the development debate; the…
