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Tomorrow's Tourist: Scenarios & Trends

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 22,3 MB

Release : 2009-06-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1136354883

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Book Description

By 2030, China will be the world’s largest tourism destination, holidays in Outer Space will be the ultimate luxury experience, extreme Swedish ironing will be an Olympic Sport, embedded technologies will be the norm in future tourists and skiing in the Alps will be no more. These are some of the changes that will occur between now and 2030 that will change world tourism. Tomorrows Tourist: Scenarios & Trends enables readers to imagine what a future tourist might be, where they will go and what they will do. This is the most comprehensive analysis of how world tourism is changing and what it means for destinations. Each chapter consists of a scenario about a future tourist, which is then is backed up with evidence and trends plus a number of assumptions about the future. The book is accompanied by its own website at http://www.tomorrowstourist.com which is owned and regularly updated by the author.



2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 34,21 MB

Release : 2012-06-13

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1845413024

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Book Description

In 2050, it is predicted that 4.7bn or nearly 50% of the world's population will take an international holiday. But can humankind meet that forecast given the issues of ageing populations, peak oil, the global financial crisis and climate change? This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought-provoking analytical commentary.



Tomorrow's Tourist

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 39,33 MB

Release : 2009-06-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1136354891

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Book Description

* Based on first hand cutting edge futures research * Forecasts for World Tourism to 2030 * Suggests what the tourist will be doing on holiday in 2030 * Discuss issues such as climate change, alternative tourist destinations and consumer trends * Shows you how to apply trends in your business * Information provided by the Future Foundation, one of Europe’s leading consumer think tanks (www.futurefoundation.net)



2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 16,53 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1845413016

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Book Description

This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought provoking analytical commentary.



Future Tourism

Author : James Leigh

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 32,42 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0415509025

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Book Description

The book draws on the views of leading thinkers in Tourism and considers a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives facing Tourism industry for the first time in one volume: dwindling energy, new technology, security (like war and terrorism), political economy, sustainability, and human resources. By critically reviewing these social and economic challenges in a global scale, the book helps to create a comprehensive view of future tourism in the unfolding and challenging society of the third millennium.



Family Tourism

Author : Heike Schanzel

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 11,75 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 184541327X

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Book Description

This cutting-edge international book brings together leading experts? latest research in the field of family tourism by adding to its underdeveloped knowledge base. Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives underlines the infancy of academic family tourism research that belies its market importance and directs towards future implications and theoretical debates about the place of families within tourism.



Millennials, Generation Z and the Future of Tourism

Author : Fabio Corbisiero

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 173 pages

File Size : 23,12 MB

Release : 2022-06-23

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1845417631

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Book Description

This book examines the lifestyles, expectations and plans of Millennials and Generation Z and how they are redefining tourism. It demonstrates that if the tourism industry is to enjoy future growth, it must understand and meet the particular needs of these two generations. The volume explores the present and future challenges faced by the tourism industry as a result of the generational turnover, and seeks to answer the following questions: What contribution can the new generations make to the future of tourism? How are technological advancements and social networks shaping future travel trends? Can a generational perspective be useful to help the tourism industry recover from the COVID-19 crisis? The book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology and tourism studies, as well as tourism professionals.



The Future of Food Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 50,60 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 1845415388

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Book Description

This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience associated with place and history? The book’s approach to the future has focused on explanation; the contributors look for the causes, trends and theoretical concepts that explain change, thus attempting to justify and explore the future. Scenarios are used to explore alternative futures and the book examines the implications for the future of food tourism and highlights future research avenues. This book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and researchers in the field of tourism studies.



The Future Past of Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 14,75 MB

Release : 2019-12-06

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1845417097

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Book Description

This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of tourism through the identification and discussion of key turning points. Based on these considerations, future turning points are identified and evaluated. The volume provides a continuum between the past and future of tourism. Its central themes are the globalisation of tourism; the development of destinations; the importance of mobility and transport; the development of the modern hotel; the diversification of niche tourism and the conceptualisation of the past and future of tourism using the evolutionary paradigm in future studies. The core findings of the book provide the first perspective on how the history of tourism will shape its future.



Resort Destinations

Author : Bruce Prideaux

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 39,58 MB

Release : 2009-06-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 113643609X

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Book Description

Destination management and resort development and planning are strong core areas in the final year of most undergraduate degrees and a popular area of study at postgraduate level. Using original case studies based on his own research, Resort Destinations uses examples from Australia's Gold Coast, Britain's Brighton, USA's Las Vegas, as well as Hong Kong, New Zealand and the Caribbean.