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1. Contemporary Tourist Experience

   Concepts and Consequences

   Edited by Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent...

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Study of Tourism

   Past Trends and Future Directions

   By Richard Sharpley

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Over the last two decades, tourism has become firmly established as a recognized field of study and the focus of extensive academic research. There has been continual expansion in the provision of taught programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level, dramatic developments in the tourism...

   Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
3. Tourist Experience

   Contemporary Perspectives

   Edited by Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   To consume tourism is to consume experiences. An understanding of the ways in which tourists experience the places and people they visit is therefore fundamental to the study of the consumption of tourism. Consequently, it is not surprising that attention has long been paid in the tourism...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
4. Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability?

   By Richard Sharpley

   Series: Tourism Environment and Development

   Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable tourism debate beyond the arguably...

   Published August 25th 2009 by Routledge
5. Tourism and Development in the Developing World

   By David J. Telfer, Richard Sharpley

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   Tourism is widely considered as an effective contributor to socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries. However, despite the almost universal adoption of tourism as a developmental option, the extent to which economic and social development inevitably follows the...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge