Tourism Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Tourist Cities

   By Dan Knox

   This book considers the relationship between tourism and the city from a range of sociological, economic and environmental approaches to fully explore the nature of tourism in cities around the world, bridging both managment and social sicence perspectives. In doing so the book offers students a...

   Published December 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism

   Edited by Melanie Smith, Greg Richards

   The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Student's Guide to Writing Dissertations and Theses in Tourism Studies and Related Disciplines

   By Tim Coles, David Timothy Duval, Gareth Shaw

   Around the world every year very many students have to complete dissertations or theses as part of their undergraduate or masters studies in tourism and related subjects. Often this substantial piece of self-directed work is the culmination of their programmes. More than just a means to consolidate...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Events, Society and Sustainability

   Critical and Contemporary Approaches

   Edited by Tomas Pernecky, Michael Lück

   Series: Routledge Advances in Event Research Series

   The growth of the events industry brings with it concerns of sustainable management, the sharing of available resources, and ensuring that people and places are not over-exploited. While the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability have attracted a reasonable attention in the study...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Heritage and Tourism

   Place, Encounter, Engagement

   Edited by Russell Staiff, Robyn Bushell, Steve Watson

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   The complex relationship between heritage places and people, in the broadest sense, can be considered dialogic, a communicative act that has implications for both sides of the ‘conversation’. This is the starting point for Heritage and Tourism . However, the ‘dialogue’ between visitors and heritage...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Urban Tourism in China

   Edited by Mimi Li, Wu Bihu

   China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past thirty years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010. Urban areas as tourism destination are receiving increasingly more popularity than...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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