Routledge Tourism, Hospitality and Events - Articles

Events and Urban Regeneration by Andrew Smith

2012-11-19T14:31:21Q

"The book presents a rich source of timely information and advice on this topical subject." Click here to read the full review of Events and Urban Regeneration, by Andrew Smith, reviewed by Kathy Pain, ALDAR Professor of Real Estate, University of Reading

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment

2012-09-28T08:28:35Q

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies inherent to tourism’s relationship with nature, especially pertinent at a time of major re-evaluation of our relationship with the environment as a consequence of the environmental problems we now face. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on this complex relationship and future direction.

Event Tourism and Cultural Tourism: Issue and Debates

2012-07-12T19:09:19Q

Event and cultural tourism as a social practice is a widespread phenomenon of global socio-economic importance. The purpose of the book is to bring together current thinking on contemporary issues relating to the management and marketing of cultural events and attractions.

Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice and Politics

2012-06-12T14:27:44Q

By David Goodman, Melanie E. DuPuis, Michael K. Goodman

Review of Alternative Food Networks by Tim Lang

"All serious analysts of modern food systems would do well to read this book. It is a magisterial volume, casting a critical yet sympathetic eye over the West's struggle to decide what a better food future might look like. Drawing on decades of research and experience, the authors generously review and make sense of hundreds of studies. This is academic and public musing of the very highest quality - exactly the kind of thinking which today's pressurised academics do too little of, in the rush to win grants, write papers, and score points. The authors not only give us one of the best books on food I have read, but provide a timely policy intervention. How good are alternative food projects, experiments and political debates? Are they really altering mass food reality? What theories and political frameworks make sense in a world where stark inequalities of land, capital, labour and consumption fit so uneasily with environmental fragility, health distortions, and fissured social existence? Never dismissive, they help us all refine one of the most important tasks facing the world in the 21st century: what is a good food system? How can we get it? What are the lessons of experimentation thus far? For certain, it's not what we have now." - Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University London, UK

Actor-Network Theory and Tourism

2012-04-12T11:21:33Q

Actor-Network Theory and Tourism, Edited by René van der Duim, Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

This is the first book to critically engage with the use of ANT in tourism studies. By doing so, it challenges approaches that have dominated the literature for the last twenty years and casts new light on issues of materiality, ordering and networks in tourism. The book describes the approach, its possibilities and limitations as an ontology and research methodology, and advances its use and research in the field of tourism.

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

2012-04-12T11:15:40Q

The Cultural Moment in Tourism Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

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 providing a rich seam of upscale product development opportunities in the industry as a whole. Much of the related literature, however, focuses upon describing and categorizing cultural tourism from a supply-side perspective.

New 5th Edition of Food and Beverage Management, now available!

2012-04-12T10:56:24Q

Food and Beverage Management, 5th Edition
By Bernard Davis, Andrew Lockwood, Peter Alcott, Ioannis Pantelidis

This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets, from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry. It explores the broad range of subject areas that encompass the food and beverage market and its five main sectors – fast food and popular catering, hotels and quality restaurants and functional, industrial, and welfare catering.

New 6th Edition of Worldwide Destinations is now available!

2012-04-12T10:52:43Q

Worldwide Destinations: The geography of travel and tourism, 6th Edition
By Brian Boniface, Chris Cooper, Robyn Cooper

This book is an invaluable resource for studying every destination in the world, by explaining tourism demand, evaluating the many types of tourist attractions and examining the trends that may shape the future geography of tourism.

The new 2012 Tourism Catalogue is now available!

2012-04-12T10:05:39Q

View it online http://www.routledge.com/catalogs/tourism_2012/

Event Studies: Book of the month March 2012

2012-03-08T09:50:13Q

Event Studies by Donald Getz draws from a large number of foundation disciplines and closely related professional fields, to foster interdisciplinary theory focused on planned events. It brings together important discourses on events including event management, event tourism, and the study of events within various disciplines that are able to shed light on the roles, importance and impacts of events in society and culture.

Cruise Operations Management: Book of the month February 2012

2012-03-08T09:36:00Q

Cruise Operations Management: Hospitality Perspectives by Philip Gibson provides a comprehensive and contextualized overview of hospitality services for the cruise industry. As well as providing a background to the cruise industry, it also looks deeper into the management issues providing a practical guide for both students and professionals alike.

Featured Book: New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism

2012-01-05T20:00:29Q

New in Paperback!

This edited text explores tourism in the Caribbean in relation to postcolonial interactions, race, class, identity, and culture.

Featured Book: The Business of Champagne

2012-01-05T18:13:08Q

This is the first book to offer an overview of how champagne created, managed, and marketed.

Recommend this book to a librarian.

Coming Soon: Food and Beverage Management, 5e

2012-01-05T18:02:28Q

This introductory textbook is a guide to managing food and beverage outlets, from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry.

Pre-order your exam copy of this textbook!

Events and Urban Regeneration - Book of the month January 2012

2012-01-05T15:21:28Q

Events and Urban Regeneration is the first book dedicated to the use of events in regeneration. It explores the relationship between events and regeneration by analyzing a range of cities and a range of sporting and cultural events projects. It considers various theoretical perspectives to provide insight into why major events are important to contemporary cites.