This best selling text offers a practical guide to the methodology and techniques of conducting research in Leisure and Tourism. Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods, this completely revised and updated third edition is essential reading for all students and leisur…
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Tackles the vexing 'parks versus people' debate by looking at whether tourism can serve both conservation and development objectives. This book examines policies and institutions in responsible tourism by governments, donor agencies and NGOs. It considers wildlife tourism and ec…
Examining the implications of EU enlargement for tourism, this book provides an examination of each of the member states, in terms of their patterns and trends of tourism development and the impacts of EU accession on them. The topics include: historical trajectories of the Euro…
Unique in concept and content, this book examines the relationship between the sectors that represent opposite sides of the cultural tourism coin. While tourism professionals assess cultural assets for their profit potential, cultural heritage professionals judge the same assets…
Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. "Places of the Imagination" presents a timely and insightful analysis of this form of media tourism, exploring the question of how best to e…
Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna and calls for the …