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1. Tourism in National Capitals and Global Change

   Edited by Robert Maitland

   At a time of increasing city competition, national capitals are at the forefront of efforts to gain competitive advantage for themselves and their nation, to project a distinctive and positive image and to score well in global city league tables. They are frequently their country’s main tourist...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Tourism

   Perspectives and Potential

   Edited by Lynn Minnaert, Robert Maitland, Graham Miller

   Social tourism refers to facilitating access to tourism for low income groups and/or the use of tourism as a regeneration and economic stimulation strategy. Although social tourism has its roots in the early 20th Century and is still a major component of the tourism sector in a range of countries,...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. World Tourism Cities

   Developing Tourism Off the Beaten Track

   Edited by Robert Maitland, Peter Newman

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   This book presents new research on the capacity of big cities to generate new tourism areas as visitors discover and help create new urban experiences off the beaten track. It examines similarities and differences in these processes in a group of established world cities located in the global...

   Published December 7th 2008 by Routledge