The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism (eBook)

Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, Allan M. Williams (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
672 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-47449-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism presents a
collection of readings that represent an essential and
authoritative reference on the state-of-the-art of the
interdisciplinary field of tourism studies.

* Presents a comprehensive and critical overview of tourism
studies across the social sciences

* Introduces emerging topics and reassesses key themes in tourism
studies in the light of recent developments

* Includes 50 newly commissioned essays by leading experts in the
social sciences from around the world

* Contains cutting-edge perspectives on topics that include
tourism's role in globalization, sustainable tourism, and the
state's role in tourism development

* Sets an agenda for future tourism research and includes a
wealth of bibliographic references

Autor

Alan A. Lew is Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation at Northern Arizona University, USA. He is Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies, and co-author of Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: An Integrated Approach (2009), World Regional Geography (2010), and Tourism Geography (2014). C. Michael Hall is Professor in the Department of Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and Visiting Professor at Linneaus University School of Business and Economics, Kalmar, Sweden. He is Co-Editor of Current Issues in Tourism and an Associate Editor of Tourism Geographies. Allan M. Williams is Professor of Tourism and Mobility Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. He is Co-Editor of Tourism Geographies, and co-author of several books, including Critical Issues in Tourism (2002), Tourism and Tourism Spaces (2004), and Tourism Innovation (2008).

Rezensionen

"Graduate students and established scholars who are looking for literature, research ideas, and teaching materials on new and emerging tourism themes will find this book an extremely valuable source of information and insights." (The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographie Canadien, 26 October 2015)

" Excellent ... as far as it goes. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 April 2015)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Anthropogeographie • Geographie • Geography • Hospitality • Hotelgewerbe, Gastronomie u. Touristik • Human geography • Reise u. Tourismus • Tourismus • Travel & Tourism
• ISBN-10: 1-118-47449-X / 111847449X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-47449-5 / 9781118474495