Encyclopedia of Tourism

Jafar Jafari, Honggen Xiao (Herausgeber)

Media-Kombination

LVII, 1152 Seiten | Ausstattung: Hardcover

2024 | 2. Second Edition 2024
Springer International Publishing
978-3-030-74922-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. Some 769 entries by 871 internationally renowned experts from 124 countries provide a definitive access to the knowledge of tourism and its related fields. Users will find reliable and up-to-date definitions and explanations of the key terms of tourism in this reference book. Tourism is the largest industry in the world and is the main source of income for many countries. With the practical impact of worldwide tourism and the growing number of academic programs and institutions devoted to its education and research, this encyclopedia is the epicenter of this emerging and developing discipline. 
Editorial BoardManaging Editor: Amy Osmond Associate Editors: David Airey, Nevenka Cavlek, Peter U. C. Dieke, Juergen Gnoth, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Tazim Jamal, Kumi Kato, Francisco Madrid Flores, Yoel Mansfeld, Scott M. Meis, Regina Schlüter, Noel Scott, Honggang XuResource Editor: Beka JakeliAssistant Editors: S. Vida Muse, Peter Reim, Shun YeCartographers: Kisandul Kumarasinghe, Ashan Manamperi, Himanshi Withanage

Autor

lt;b>Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research: A Social Sciences Journal; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science (book) Series; Co-Chief Editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice book series; Chief Editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET: Tourism Research Information Network; and Founding President, International Academy for the Study of Tourism. A cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Minnesota, USA) and a hotel administration graduate (BS and MS, Cornell University, USA), with an honorary doctorate from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain) and the recipient of the 2005 United Nations World Tourism Organization Ulysses Award, he is Visiting Professor of the Universitat do Algarve (Portugal) and Sun Yat-sen University (China), international Program Director of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), and faculty member of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Department of Hospitality and Tourism (USA). 
Honggen Xiao is Associate Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has had undergraduate (Fujian Normal University, China) and postgraduate (Soochow University, China) trainings in linguistics and literature, and has also earned his Master's and PhD degrees in Recreation and Leisure Studies (University of Waterloo, Canada). His prior work encompasses associate professorship and directorship of The Department of Tourism at Huaqiao University, China, and visiting professorship in The College of Tourism at Rikkyo University, Japan. He advises doctoral studies, and has teaching and research interest in knowledge development, tourism and culture, leisure and society, and China tourism. He is also Subject Index Editor of Annals of Tourism Research.  

Inhalt

Aboriginal and indigenous tourism.- Accessibility, tourism.- Accommodation.- Acculturation, tourism.- Activity, tourism.- Actor-network theory, tourism.- Adaptation, tourism.- Adventure tourism.- Advertisement, tourism.- Afghanistan, tourism.- Africa, tourism.- Agritourism.- Air transport.- Airline.- Albania, Tourism.- Alcohol and drug tourism.- Algeria, tourism.- Alienation, tourism.- Allocentric and psychocentric, tourism.- Alpine tourism.- Alternative tourism.- Americas, tourism.- Andorra, tourism.- Angola, tourism.- Animal Rights.- Antarctic tourism.- Anthropology, tourism.- Anticipation.- Antigua and Barbuda, tourism.- Anti-tourism.- Archaeology, tourism.- Architecture, tourism.- Arctic, tourism.- Argentina, tourism.- Armenia, tourism.- Art, tourism.- Asia and the Pacific, tourism.- Astrotourism.- Attention, tourism.- Attitude, tourism.- Attraction, tourism.- Australia, tourism.- Austria, tourism.- Authenticity.- Auto tourism.- Autoethnography, tourism.- Automatic interaction detection, tourism.- Automation, tourism.- Aviation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Encyclopedia of Tourism
• Zusatzinfo: LVII, 1152 p. 217 illus., 211 illus. in color. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 254 mm
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Cruise Tourism • Ecotourism • Environmental impact • Holiday • Hospitality • Tourism Industry • Travel
• ISBN-10: 3-030-74922-3 / 3030749223
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-74922-4 / 9783030749224
• Zustand: Neuware