Alan A Lew: 4 books
Tourism Geography
Critical Understandings of Place, Space and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
For human geographers, a central theme within the discipline is interpreting and understanding our changing world – a world in which geographic patterns are constantly being reworked by powerful forces of change. These forces include population shifts, new patterns of economic production and consumption,...
Seductions of Place
Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores...
Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts. Although tourism can provide significant economic benefits for some destinations, the image of tourism as a benign and environmentally friendly industry has often...
by Kaye Sung Chon, Zhang Guangrui, John Ap
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Examine China's impact on the world tourism market!
Tourism in China is a comprehensive study of tourism and the travel industry in China--past, present, and future. Since joining many of its Asia-Pacific neighbors in identifying tourism as a vehicle for socioeconomic growth and poverty alleviation,...