Author : Bill Bramwell
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781873150689
This text examines the development of mass tourism in coastal regions of Southern Europe, with implications for similar regions. It provides a critical assessment of attempts to make mass tourism resorts more sustainable, and the development of smaller-scale, alternative tourism products.
Author : Bill Bramwell
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1873150695
This book examines the development of mass tourism in coastal regions of Southern Europe, with implications for similar regions across the world. It provides a critical assessment of two influential policies intended to promote sustainable development, these being attempts to make mass tourism resorts more sustainable, and the development of smaller-scale, `alternative' tourism products.
Author : Sheela Agarwal
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845410726
Drawing on examples from a range of economies and environments, this text develops a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts. The main management themes highlighted include the processes of restructuring, and attempts to develop sustainable agendas.
Author : Pau Obrador Pons
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1409488284
With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, it focuses on package tourists' experiences of the serial, banal and depthless spaces that are mushrooming along the coast and the enchantments, dissolutions and dreams that saturate them. Moving away from the notion of authentic places corrupted by mass tourism, the book shows how new forms and spaces are made and remade by the mobilities and performances of locals, workers and tourists. Finally, the book looks at the complex materialities of mass tourism and the many networks that make it possible.
Author : Jafar Jafari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134735324
In fewer than three hundred years tourism has become a global service industry of great economic, cultural and political importance. Published to critical acclaim, the Encyclopedia of Tourism - now available as a Routledge World Reference title - is the definitive one-volume reference source to this challenging multisectoral industry and multi disciplinary field of study. Comprising over one thousand entries, this volume has been written by an international team of contributors to provide a comprehensive guide to both the manifest and hidden dimensions of tourism. It explores the wide range of definitions, concepts, perspectives and institutions and includes: comprehensive coverage of key issues and concepts definitions of all terms and acronyms entries on the significant institutions, associations and journals in the field country-specific tourism profiles, from Greece to Japan and Kenya to Peru thorough analysis of the trends and patterns of tourism development and growth. The extensive cross-referencing and comprehensive index will assist the reader in making links between the diverse aspects of tourism studies, and the suggestions for further reading are invaluable.
Author : Jeremy Boissevain
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781571818782
Twenty-four papers assess the challenges to developing a systematic framework for understanding and predicting climatic changes and variations. The contributing scientists pull together ad hoc environmental observations, presenting a coherent review of long and short term climate monitoring, direction in future research, and specific aspects of observing such as long term monitoring of the cryosphere, and oceanic observation systems. The volume is reprinted from Climatic Change, v.31, nos.2-4, 1995. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Luciano Segreto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1845459113
Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which has long been a very popular destination, is explored here in the first study to scrutinize the region as a whole and over a long period of time. In particular, it investigates the area’s economic and social networks directly involved in tourism, which includes examining the most popular spots that attract tourists and the crucial actors, such as hotel entrepreneurs, travel agencies, charter companies, and companies developing seaside resort networks. This important volume presents a fascinating picture of the economics of tourism in one of the world’s most visited destinations.
Author : K.K. Sharma
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9788176254953
Author : Istvan Egresi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319475371
This book takes inventory of and evaluates the available resources for the development of alternative tourism in Turkey. It examines the role of alternative tourism in future tourism development plans and proposes public policies necessary to assure sustainability. Although tourism started later in Turkey than in the Western Mediterranean countries it has grown very rapidly during the last three decades and today the country ranks among the top ten countries in the world in terms of both arrivals and receipts. However, most of the tourism development has been in the mass tourism sector or the so-called sun-sea-sand tourism. While crucial for the economic development of Turkey, mass tourism, in the absence of proper planning, has happened in a haphazard manner leading to numerous environmental and socio-cultural problems. This book argues that, in order to mitigate these problems, Turkey should encourage the development of alternative forms of tourism.
Author : Alan A. Lew
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118474481
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
