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Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment Issues, Challenges and Prospects

Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment: Issues, Challenges and Prospects

1st Edition

Edited By H. Cristina Jönsson
March 03, 2022

This is the first volume to examine and shed significant light on the issues, challenges and prospects presented by foreign direct investment (FDI) in tourism – a topic of increasing relevance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic consequences. This book addresses the need to examine the ...

Hosting the Olympic Games Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy

1st Edition

Edited By Marie Delaplace, Pierre-Olaf Schut
August 15, 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. It draws attention to the debates and ...

Lifelong Learning for Tourism Concepts, Policy and Implementation

Lifelong Learning for Tourism: Concepts, Policy and Implementation

1st Edition

Edited By Violet V. Cuffy, David Airey, Georgios C. Papageorgiou
September 14, 2017

Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess of one billion per annum. Given the global socio-economic significance of tourism, it is imperative to develop educational opportunities for those ...

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

1st Edition

Edited By Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson
May 30, 2017

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 ...

Tourism and Retail The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

Tourism and Retail: The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

1st Edition

Edited By Charles McIntyre
May 30, 2017

Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of ...

Contemporary Tourist Experience Concepts and Consequences

Contemporary Tourist Experience: Concepts and Consequences

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone
May 25, 2017

This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent ...

Future Tourism Political, Social and Economic Challenges

Future Tourism: Political, Social and Economic Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By James Leigh, Craig Webster, Stanislav Ivanov
May 25, 2017

This book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is threatening society, and makes suggestions on what the impact will be and how tourism will be changed to integrate with the new ...

Tourist Experience and Fulfilment Insights from Positive Psychology

Tourist Experience and Fulfilment: Insights from Positive Psychology

1st Edition

Edited By Sebastian Filep, Philip Pearce
May 25, 2017

What makes life worth living? Many people would argue that it is fulfilling experiences. These experiences are characterised by feelings of joy and pleasure, positive relationships and a sense of engagement, meaning and achievement. Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial ...

Dark Tourism and Crime

Dark Tourism and Crime

1st Edition

By Derek Dalton
May 24, 2017

Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse.   It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor for sites that are associated with death, suffering and trauma.  However, whilst  books have been devoted to dark tourism as a ...

Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism

Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism

1st Edition

By Alisha Ali, Andrew J. Frew
May 24, 2017

Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the industry. There have been numerous texts written on sustainable tourism and the measures to mitigate and manage ...

Responsible Tourist Behaviour

Responsible Tourist Behaviour

1st Edition

By Clare Weeden
May 24, 2017

What is important to ethical consumers when thinking about going on holiday and how do they incorporate their lifestyle choices into these holidays? What values inform their lifestyles and how do they satisfy these values on holiday? Do ethical consumers automatically become ethical tourists or is ...

International Sports Events Impacts, Experiences and Identities

International Sports Events: Impacts, Experiences and Identities

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Shipway, Alan Fyall
May 18, 2017

This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first ...

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