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Tourism geography : critical understandings of place, space and experience /

By: Williams, Stephen.
Contributor(s): Lew, Alan A.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2015Edition: Third edition.Description: xii, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415854436 (hardback); 9780415854436:; 0415854431 (hardback); 9780415854443 (paperback); 041585444X (paperback).Subject(s): Tourism | TravelDDC classification: 338.4791
Contents:
List of plates -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of more online case studies -- Acknowledgements -- Part I : introduction : tourism and geography -- Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism -- Part II : the emergence of global tourism -- The birth of modern tourism -- International patterns of travel and tourism -- Part III : tourism's economic, environmental and social relations -- Costs and benefits : the local economic landscape of tourism -- Tourism, sustainability and environmental change -- Socio-cultural relations and experiences in tourism --Part IV : understanding tourism places and spaces -- Cultural constructions and invented places -- Theming the urban landscape -- The past as a foreign country : heritage as tourism -- Nature risk and geographic exploration in tourism -- Consumption, identity and specialty tourisms -- Part V : applied and future tourism geographies -- Planning and managing tourism devlopment -- Emerging and future tourism geographies -- Appendix : a guide to the use of the Internet in tourism geography -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This text draws on case studies from across the world to offer a concise review of established tourism geographies and shows how patterns in the production and consumption of tourist places are fashioning new tourism geographies in the late 1990s.
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Includes bibliographic references and index.

List of plates -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of more online case studies -- Acknowledgements -- Part I : introduction : tourism and geography -- Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism -- Part II : the emergence of global tourism -- The birth of modern tourism -- International patterns of travel and tourism -- Part III : tourism's economic, environmental and social relations -- Costs and benefits : the local economic landscape of tourism -- Tourism, sustainability and environmental change -- Socio-cultural relations and experiences in tourism --Part IV : understanding tourism places and spaces -- Cultural constructions and invented places -- Theming the urban landscape -- The past as a foreign country : heritage as tourism -- Nature risk and geographic exploration in tourism -- Consumption, identity and specialty tourisms -- Part V : applied and future tourism geographies -- Planning and managing tourism devlopment -- Emerging and future tourism geographies -- Appendix : a guide to the use of the Internet in tourism geography -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

This text draws on case studies from across the world to offer a concise review of established tourism geographies and shows how patterns in the production and consumption of tourist places are fashioning new tourism geographies in the late 1990s.

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