2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism

Dr Ian Yeoman is the world's only professional futurologist dedicated to specializing in travel and tourism. Ian learned his trade as the scenario planner for VisitScotland, where he established the process of futures thinking within the organisation using a variety of techniques including economic modelling, trends analysis and scenario construction. Today he is a leading academic researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and the European Tourism Futures Institute, Netherlands. Further details on scenario planning and other future insights are posted on the author's blog: www.tomorrowstourist.com.

Any attempt to predict the future is a journey into the unknown. On this adventure the reader will be continuously engaged, intrigued, exhilarated and occasionally irritated by the unexpected connections and extrapolations, but will never be jaded or bored on this breathtaking roller coaster ride into the future.

• AuthorsAcknowledgementsForewords– F. de Klerk Wolters– G. Lipman– D. GlaesserIntroduction1 An Introduction to the FutureWealth2 World Economic Order: The Tourism Economy in 20503 Where Have All the Tourists Gone? Pensions, Demography and the Germans4 Tomorrow’s Tourist: Fluid and Simple IdentitiesTechnology5 Edinburgh 2050: Technological Revolution6 Singapore 2050: Medicine, Science and the Meetings Industry7 Amsterdam 2050: Sex, Robots and the End of Human Trafficking8 New Zealand 2050: The Future of Professional Rugby and Sporting EventsResources9 California and Metropolis Los Angeles 2050: Changing Landscapes, Cities and Climate Change10 Seoul 2050: The Future of Food Tourism11 Shanghai 2050: The Future of Hotels12 2050: The Future of TransportAfterwords– R. Talwar– A. PostmaReferencesIndex