The Tourism Industry Books

New and Published Books

1. Conferences and Conventions 3rd edition

   A Global Industry

   By Tony Rogers

   Series: Events Management

   Conferences and Conventions: A Global Industry 3rd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the key elements of the global conference, convention and meetings industry. It examines the industry’s origins, structure, economic, social and environmental impacts, education, training and career...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Frontiers in Nature-based Tourism

   Lessons from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

   Edited by Peter Fredman, Liisa Tyrväinen

   Nature has been a key attraction factor for tourism in the Nordic countries for decades. The demand for nature-based tourism has steadily grown and is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors within tourism across Europe and elsewhere. This demand has created opportunities for nature-based tourism...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries

   2nd Edition

   By Dennis Nickson

   Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries 2nd Edition, takes an integrated look at HRM policies and practices in the tourism and hospitality industries. Utilising existing human resource management (HRM) theory and practice, it contextualises it to the tourism and...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Culture and the City

   Creativity, Tourism, Leisure

   Edited by Deborah Stevenson, Amie Matthews

   This edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined, experienced and shaped by those who reside within them, those who manage or govern them, and those who, as visitor, tourist or traveller, pass through them. Attention will be paid to the influence that these various...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Tourism: The Key Concepts

   Edited by Peter Robinson

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Tourism: The Key Concepts offers a comprehensive collection of the most frequently used and studied concepts in the subject of tourism. Within the text key terms, concepts, typologies and frameworks are examined in the context of the broader social sciences, blending together theory and practice to...

   Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Marketing of Tourism Experiences

   Edited by Noel Scott, Eric Laws, Philipp Boksberger

   This book provides a review of the current theory and practice of experiential tourism and how it is marketed. Many societies today are characterised by widespread individual wealth of an order previously confined to the elite with the consequence that ownership of ‘ordinary’ physical goods is no...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Events Management

   An Introduction

   By Charles Bladen, James Kennell, Emma Abson, Nick Wilde

   Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This major new introductory textbook is the first to fully explore the multi-disciplinary nature of events management and to provide all the practical skills and professional knowledge students need to succeed in the events industry...

   Published February 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Creating Island Resorts

   By Brian King

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   This work studies tropical island resorts, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. The author includes, but goes beyond the more commonly encountered marketing and economic analyses of resort destinations, by examining social, cultural, mythical, environmental,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition

    A Place called Shangrila

    By Ashild Kolas

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    This book explores the relationship between tourism, culture and ethnic identity in Tibet in , focusing in particular on Shangrila, a Tibetan region in Southwest China, to show how local ‘Tibetan culture’ is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourists. It analyses the socio-economic...

    Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge