Tourism Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Tourism, Poverty and Development

   By Andrew Holden

   Poverty alleviation is high on the global policy agenda, its importance being emphasised by its place as the first of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. As a potentially significant source of economic growth in developing countries, tourism may also play a major role in poverty...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions

   The Intimate Economy of Tango

   By Maria Törnqvist

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   Today, an increasing number of people from all over the world travel to Buenos Aires to dance tango. To accommodate these intimate voyagers, tourist agencies offer travel packages, including classes in tango instruction, dance shoe shopping, and special city maps pointing out the tango clubs in...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Dark Tourism and Place Identity

   Managing and Interpreting Dark Places

   Edited by Leanne White, Elspeth Frew

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Dark Tourism, including visitation to places such as murder sites, battlefields and cemeteries is a growing phenomenon, as well as an emergent area of scholarly interest. Despite this interest, the intersecting domains of dark tourism and place identity have been largely overlooked in the academic...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Commemorative Events

   Memory, Identities, Conflict

   By Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing

   Series: Routledge Advances in Event Research Series

   Commemorative Events emphasise remembering. They are held on the anniversaries of significant past events, either annually or after significant time periods. Commemorative events provide fascinating insight into how societies see themselves, their heritage and their identity. These events however...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Exploring the Social Impacts of Events

   Edited by Greg Richards, Marisa de Brito, Linda Wilks

   Series: Routledge Advances in Event Research Series

   Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different kinds of events or in different settings. This timely volume fills this gap by being...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia

   By Meghann Ormond

   Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

   International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations located in the ‘developing’ world, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
7. Events and The Social Sciences

   By Hazel Andrews, Teresa Leopold

   As the events management field expands as an area of study, there is a need to move beyond the business and marketing-driven approaches which dominate the literature towards a more advanced conceptual analysis and understanding of events from a socio-cultural context. This book addresses this need...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Tourism and Crisis

   Edited by Gustav Visser, Sanette Ferreira

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management

   The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However, despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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