Tourism Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Worldwide Destinations

   The geography of travel and tourism, 6th Edition

   By Brian Boniface, Chris Cooper, Robyn Cooper

   Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is a unique text that explores tourism demand, supply, organisation and resources for a comprehensive range of destinations worldwide. The sixth edition is brought up to date with features such as: An exploration of current issues such...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. The Cultural Moment in Tourism

   Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. The Advanced Econometrics of Tourism Demand

   By Haiyan Song, Stephen F. Witt, Gang Li

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   Tourism demand is the foundation on which all tourism-related business decisions ultimately rest. Governments and companies such as airlines, tour operators, hotels, cruise ship lines, and recreation facility providers are interested in the demand for their products by tourists. The success of many...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Tourism and Retail

   The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

   Edited by Charles McIntyre

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Tourist Behavior

    Theory & Practice

    Edited by Metin Kozak, Alain Decrop

    Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

    In today’s highly competitive and global economy, understanding tourist behavior is imperative to success. Tourist behavior has become a cornerstone of any marketing strategy and action. Choosing, buying and consuming tourism/travel products and services includes a range of psycho-social processes...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge