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2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 22,23 MB

Release : 2012-06-13

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1845413040

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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.



2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 10,23 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.



Tomorrow's Tourist: Scenarios & Trends

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 16,79 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.



Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2012

Author : Roland Conrady

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 13,89 MB

Release : 2012-01-28

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3642274048

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Book Description

This book offers insights into important trends and future scenarios in the global tourism and travel industry. Besides the general topics (aviation and hospitality industry, destination management, marketing, and distribution management) it analyses current challenges and impacts resulting especially from developments in social media, corporate social responsibility and eco-mobility. Sustainability in the global tourism sector and particularly eco-mobility is one of the top themes to-be and therefore a focus of this book. Among the contributors to the book are well-known notabilities from institutions such as the UNWTO and top executives of various segments of the tourism and travel industry. The articles are based on presentations and panel discussions presented at the world ́s largest tourism convention, the ITB Berlin Convention.



Future Tourism

Author : James Leigh

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 38,43 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 : 41,83 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.



The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management

Author : Chris Cooper

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 1629 pages

File Size : 37,23 MB

Release : 2021-08-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1526444496

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Book Description

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. Arranged over two volumes, the chapters are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debates, and emerging trends and future considerations for the field. The two volumes focus in turn on the theories, concepts and disciplines that underpin tourism management in volume one, followed by examinations of how those ideas and concepts have been applied in the second volume. Chapters are structured around twelve key themes: Volume One Part One: Researching Tourism Part Two: Social Analysis Part Three: Economic Analysis Part Four: Technological Analysis Part Five: Environmental Analysis Part Six: Political Analysis Volume Two Part One: Approaching Tourism Part Two: Destination Applications Part Three: Marketing Applications Part Four: Tourism Product Markets Part Five: Technological Applications Part Six: Environmental Applications This handbook offers a fresh, contemporary and definitive look at tourism management, making it an essential resource for academics, researchers and students.



Green Growth and Travelism

Author : Geoffrey Lipman

Publisher : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 30,28 MB

Release : 2012-06-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1908999195

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Book Description

This book explores why the industry is misperceived and how it can take its rightful leadership place in the transformation to the new green economy. It looks practically into these issues by taking the views of 46 government, industry and civil society thought leaders on the challenges, opportunities and solutions.



The Future of Food Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 15,47 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 : 18,17 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.