Tourism (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
432
Utgivningsdatum
2005-12-01
Upplaga
1
Förlag
Prentice Hall
Medarbetare
Mathieson, Alister
Illustratör/Fotograf
Illustrations
Illustrationer
Illustrations
Dimensioner
170 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt
700 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780130994004

Tourism

Change, Impacts and Opportunities

av Geoffrey Wall
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-12-01

Slutsåld

This new text builds upon the success of the classic Mathieson & Wall original Tourism: economic, physical and social impacts to provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the consequences of tourism. The authors address the nature of tourism and tourists and the economic, environmental and social impacts that result from their activities. It provides a unique blend of theoretical principles and practice for a balanced approach to tourism.

Key features
  • new approaches to impact assessment are considered as well as a rethinking of tourism impacts
  • uses international case studies and models to illustrate key concepts
  • wide range of examples from both the developing and developed world
  • incorporates the latest insights and literature
  • contains new chapters on frameworks for analysis and sustainable developments
  • contains an extensive bibliography and subject, place and author indexes to permit easy access to information
This text will be essential reading to students, academics and practitioners of tourism, leisure, hospitality, geography, management, business studies and the wider social sciences.

Geoffrey Wall is Professor of Geography at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Alister Mathieson is Dean, School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Toronto, Canada.
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Innehållsförteckning

  1. Introduction
  2. Frameworks
  3. Rethinking Tourism Impacts
  4. Economic Impacts
  5. Physical Impacts
  6. Social Impacts
  7. Planning and Managing Change in Tourism

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