Author : Richard Sharpley
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1844077322
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Tejvir Singh
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Anna Spenceley
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849772398
'Responsible Tourism presents a wide variety of valuable lessons learned in responsible tourism initiatives in Southern Africa that many tourism practitioners can use in their efforts to make the tourism sector work for the poor and for the environment.' Dr Harsh Varma Director Development Assistance Department World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) 'For those interested in how tourism can assist in the economic and social development of societies in need Responsible Tourism effectively integrates scales and types of knowledge to present an informative stimulating perspective. It will be on my boo.
Author : Karla A. Boluk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000390276
Activating Critical Thinking to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals in Tourism Systems focuses on the role of critical thinking and inquiry in the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in tourism systems. The impetus for the development of this book emerged from the declaration by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. This declaration purposely positions tourism as a tool to advance the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs, thus mutually serving as an opportunity and responsibility to appraise from a critical lens what the SDGs signify and how they can be understood from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the book foster the next phase of sustainable tourism scholarship that actively considers the interconnections of the UN’s SDGs to tourism theory and praxis, and activates critical thinking to analyze and advance sustainability in tourism systems. It articulates the need for the academy to be more intrinsically involved in ongoing iterations of multilateral accords and decrees, to ensure they embody more critical and inclusive transitions toward sustainability, as opposed to market-driven, neoliberal directives. The contributions in this book encourage various worldviews challenging, shaping, and more critically reflecting the realities of global communities as related to, and impacted by, sustainable tourism development. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Author : Andrew Holden
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415207171
For many people, holidays are an increasingly central feature of contemporary western society. The tourism industry has expanded rapidly since 1950, but this book poses the significant question of consequent environmental impacts: are environments being benefited or damaged, by the tourist who visit them? A well-balanced introductory text, this topical book on the relationships between tourism, society and the environment, examines 'tourism' and 'environment' in detail, and gives a historical overview of the growth of the tourism industry. It discusses how the tourism industry markets physical and cultural environments to be consumed by the tourist, and the consequences of the tourism they then attract. It explores: * how the economics of tourism can be adopted in a positive way to aid conservation * whether the concept of sustainability can be applied to tourism * provides a critique of the 'new' forms of tourism, that have developed in recent years. An extensive range of international case studies from both the developed and developing world are used to illustrate the theoretical ideas presented, and to aid the student, it includes end of chapter summaries, further reading guides and boxed vignettes focusing on contemporary environmental issues and debates.
Author : Helen Briassoulis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401126968
The issue of maintaining a balanced relationship between tourism and the environment has received considerable attention since the 1970s. However, only in the 1980s and 1990s did it become a topic of systematic academic inquiry and research, distinguished from the broader area of the environmental impacts of recreation and leisure activities. This volume dwells on the environmental and economic impacts of tourism and is divided as follows: Part 1: Introduction and Overview Part 2: Tourism and the Environment: General Considerations Part 3: Regional Issues Part 4: Economic Issues Part 5: Policy Issues The work is complemented by a subject index.
Author : Fabio Cerina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136904964
This work aims to critically explore how tourism economic development can move closer to a sustainable ideal from a firm economic analytic anchor. It includes a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives and includes cutting edge research from international scholars.
Author : Richard Sharpley
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781873150344
This text explores the role of tourism as a potential contibutor to socio-economic development in destination areas. Establishing a link between tourism studies and development studies, it considers what is meant by development, the processes through which development may be achieved and, in particular, a number of fundamental issues related to the use of tourism as a development agent. In so doing, it challenges conventional thinking about the relationship between tourism and development.
Author : Bill Bramwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135723087
The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development. Governance encompasses the many ways in which societies and industries are governed, given permission or assistance, or steered by government and numerous other actors, including the private sector, NGOs and communities. This book explains and evaluates critical perspectives on the governance of tourism, examining these in the context of tourism and sustainable development. Governance processes fundamentally affect whether – and how – progress is made toward securing the economic, socio-cultural and environmental goals of sustainable development. The critical perspectives on tourism governance, examined here, challenge and re-conceptualise established ideas in tourism policy and planning, as well as engage with theoretical frameworks from other social science fields. The contributors assess theoretical frameworks that help explain the governance of tourism and sustainability. They also explore tourism governance at national, regional and local scales, and the relations between them. They assess issues of power and politics in policy making and planning, and they consider changing governance relationships over time and the associated potential for social learning. The collection brings insights from leading researchers, and examines important new theoretical frameworks for tourism research. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Author : Tej Vir Singh
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845413423
The book is a landmark volume which examines perplexing tourism debates such as the relevance of mass tourism, climate change, authenticity, tourism and poverty and slow tourism. Multidisciplinary in content, it covers applied aspects of sociology, anthropology, humanities and biosciences. The book is unique in its presentation and style and will be an essential resource for scholars, academics and practitioners.
