Tourism Planning and Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. International Sports Events

   Impacts, Experiences and Identities

   Edited by Richard Shipway, Alan Fyall

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
6. Events and Urban Regeneration

   The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities

   By Andrew Smith

   In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising from new venues, these events are viewed as a way of stimulating investment,...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Live Architecture

   Venues, Stages and Arenas for Popular Music

   By Robert Kronenburg

   Live Architecture explores the physical form of popular music performance space from 1960 to the present day. This book quantifies the factors that determine what makes a venue successful focusing on both famous and less well-known examples from the smallest barroom music space to the largest...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism

   Edited by Honggen Xiao

   Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism is an innovative and engaging collection which presents unique approaches and critical insights into the policy, development and management practices of tourism and hospitality in modern China. This volume consists of nine independent research reports...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Handbook of Events

   Edited by Stephen Page, Joanne Connell

   The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with this rapidly expanding discipline. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
10. Event Policy

    From Theory to Strategy

    By Malcolm Foley, David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson

    As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive ‘events’ policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation. Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to...

    Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge