Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

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1. Adventure Tourism

   Meanings, experience and learning

   Edited by Steve Taylor, Peter Varley, Tony Johnston

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Sexuality, Women, and Tourism

   Cross-border desires through contemporary travel

   By Susan E. Frohlick

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Tourism and War

   Edited by Richard Butler, Wantanee Suntikul

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. Issues of peace and...

   Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Medical Tourism

   The Ethics, Regulation, and Marketing of Health Mobility

   Edited by C. Michael Hall

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services. Although spas and improved well-being have long been part of the tourist experience, health tourism now includes travel for medical purposes ranging from cosmetic and dental surgery...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City

   Edited by Jan Rath

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights and challenges for empirical research using informative case studies drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North...

   Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Tourism in Brazil

   Environment, Management and Segments

   Edited by Gui Lohmann, Dianne Dredge

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Since the 1990s, tourism has become a major driver of economic activity and community development in Brazil. New policies and approaches, growing expertise and investment in tourism have brought significant transformation in tourism products, destination development and community involvement. In...

   Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
7. Slum Tourism

   Poverty, Power and Ethics

   Edited by Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Tourism and Climate Change

   Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation

   By Daniel Scott, C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gossling

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Climate change is the single most important global environmental and development issue facing the world today and has emerged as a major topic in tourism studies. Climate change is already affecting the tourism industry and is anticipated to have profound implications for tourism in the...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Liminal Landscapes

   Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

   Edited by Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Actor-Network Theory and Tourism

    Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity

    Edited by René van der Duim, Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

    Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

    The recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures and technologies in multifarious ways. Despite the widespread application of ANT across the social...

    Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge