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The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.
It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography whilst also providing for perspectives from cognate areas within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.
Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.
Edited By Aurélie Condevaux, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand
December 20, 2021
This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns. The first part looks at the ‘befores’ – everyday places such as daily markets, flea markets, urban neighbourhoods, that have ...
Edited By Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Adam Doering, Bobbie Chew Bigby
July 30, 2021
Once touted as the world’s largest industry and also a tool for fostering peace and global understanding, tourism has certainly been a major force shaping our world. The recent COVID-19 crisis has led to calls to transform tourism and reset it along more ethical and sustainable lines. It was in ...
Edited By Claudia Ba, Sybille Frank, Claus Müller, Anna Laura Raschke, Kristin Wellner, Annika Zecher
July 22, 2021
The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames, the book offers insights into power relations ...
Edited By Jarkko Saarinen, Jayne M. Rogerson
June 17, 2021
This significant volume is the first to focus on both the changing nature of tourism and the capacity of tourism to effect change, especially in the Global South. Geographically, this changing nature of tourism is based on the transforming relationships between demand, supply and location. While ...
By Ning Chris Chen, C. Michael Hall, Girish Prayag
June 04, 2021
Place is integral to tourism. In tourism, almost all issues can ultimately be traced back to human–place interactions and human–place relationships. Sense of place, also referred to as place attachment, topophilia, and community sentiment, has received significant attention in tourism studies ...
Edited By C. Michael Hall, Linda Lundmark, Jundan Jasmine Zhang
December 29, 2020
The sustainability of tourism is increasingly under question given the challenges of overtourism, COVID-19 and the contribution of tourism to climate and environmental change. Degrowth and Tourism provides an original response to the central problem of growth in tourism, an imperative that has been...
Edited By Saurabh Kumar Dixit
December 18, 2020
This timely and significant book explores the characteristics and complexities of Asian urban tourism, considering the extent to which Western paradigms can be transferred to Asian settings and the striking contrasts that exist within the region. In an era of unprecedented urban expansion in ...
Edited By Hugues Séraphin, Anca C. Yallop
November 06, 2020
Since 2017, the term ‘overtourism’ has become the buzzword for destinations suffering the strain of tourism. It is a critical issue for the 21st century and beyond, and to date has only been examined from a tourism industry perspective. This book takes a different stand by investigating overtourism...
Edited By Richard Sharpley, Kumi Kato
October 30, 2020
This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been characterized by an historical emphasis on promoting both domestic and international tourism to Japanese tourists, followed by the more recent policy of competing aggressively in the ...
Edited By Siamak Seyfi, C. Michael Hall
September 29, 2020
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of cultural and heritage tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the many complexities that heritage sites and tourist attractions face. The MENA region has long been regarded as the cradle of Western and Arab ...
Edited By Sophia Rolle, Jessica Minnis, Ian Bethell-Bennett
July 13, 2020
This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries. The book achieves this by looking at the impacts of mass tourism development from ...
By C. Michael Hall, Allan M. Williams
December 02, 2019
This ground-breaking volume on the relationships between tourism and innovation provides an overview of relevant innovation theories and related literatures on entrepreneurship, productivity, regional development and competitiveness, and their significance to contemporary tourism practices. ...