Tourism, Hospitality and Events Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Tourism and Political Boundaries

   By Dallen J. Timothy

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   The importance of political boundaries in the development, function and flow of tourism cannot be overemphasized. In light of today's political transformations and processes of globalization, this book provides a systematic examination of the relationships between boundaries and tourism, and...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Nature's Spectacle

   The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

   By John Sheail

   National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. ...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities

   By John R. Kellett

   The arrival of the railway was one of the most far reaching events in the history of the Victorian city. The present study, based upon detailed case histories of Britain's five largest cities (London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool), shows how the railways gave Victorian cities their...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Postcolonial Tourism

   Literature, Culture, and Environment

   By Anthony Carrigan

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life

   By Philip Pearce, Sebastian Filep, Glenn Ross

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet. Yet there is a lack of specific attention to the ways in which we can better understand and evaluate the relationship between well-being and travel. The recent...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Managing and Marketing Tourist Destinations

   Strategies to Gain a Competitive Edge

   By Metin Kozak, Seyhmus Baloglu

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services. The basis of competitive advantage shifts from tourism resources only (destination marketing) to a location-based or city-wide integrated management (place marketing). In this book, tourism scholars Metin Kozak and Seyhmus...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Tourist Shopping Villages

   Forms and Functions

   By Laurie Murphy, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Philip L. Pearce

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   Shopping is perhaps the most universal of tourist activities. Tourists form a separate retailing segment from the general population and place importance on different products and product attributes, contributing billions of dollars each year for both the private and public sector by which retail...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Gleams From Japan (Routledge Revivals)

   By S. Katsumata

   First published in 1937, this collection presents a series of vignettes on Japanese life and thought, taken from 25 years of the author's work for the Japanese tourist board between 1912 and 1937. Dealing in subjects as diverse as wrestling, singing insects and Japanese...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

    Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas

    Edited by Helen Suich, Brian Child

    The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates. Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the...

    Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge