Channel View Publications: 585 books
Slow Tourism
Experiences and Mobilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time,...
Residential Tourism
(De)Constructing Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
Residential Tourism: (De)Constructing Paradise offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. Amidst the widespread development and promotion of international destinations of residential...
Accessible Tourism
Concepts and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Inclusion, disability, an ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible...
The Tourism and Leisure Experience
Consumer and Managerial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
People do not buy products, or even services; they purchase the total experience that the product or service provides. Experience management is seen as the way to remain competitive in markets where globalisation and technology have turned products and services into commodities. This book draws together...
by Prof. Philip L. Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in a number of emerging and fresh topics in contemporary tourist behaviour and experience. Topics explored include the effects of newer technologies on tourists’ behaviour and experience, tourists’ experience of scams, safety and personal responsibility,...
Tea and Tourism
Tourists, Traditions and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
The global production, marketing and consumption of tea present a resource for tea-related tourism. Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Traditions and Transformations profiles tea cultures and examines the social, political and developmental contexts of using related traditions for touristic purposes. This...
Strategic Management for Tourism Communities
Bridging the Gaps
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
Tourism, with its wide-ranging impact, needs to be managed effectively – but how? This book advocates taking a business approach to tourism that encourages greater collaboration between stakeholders in the practical assessment of tourism options. The approach places key business management functions...
Tourism and Memories of Home
Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book investigates ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of mass tourism, the dilemma of authenticity, whether small tourism is beautiful, whether volunteer tourism is benign, whether tourism contributes to climate...
Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes
Between Elite Landscape and Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
Second homes - the cottage, the summer house, the bach - are an important part of the tourism and leisure lifestyles of many people in the developed world. Second homes are therefore an integral component of tourism experiences in rural and peripheral areas. Yet, despite their significance not only...
Best Practice in Accessible Tourism
Inclusion, Disability, Ageing Population and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This volume presents an international selection of invited contributions on policy and best practice in accessible tourism, reflecting current practices across a range of destinations and business settings. It brings together global expertise in planning, design and management to inform and stimulate...
by Dr. Brent W. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Increasingly tourists are seeking learning and educational holidays. This interest has led to the provision of tourism product with some form of learning or education as an integral component, including cultural heritage tourism and ecotourism. The growth of offshore education and lifelong learning...
Polar Tourism
An Environmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Tourism throughout the world raises environmental issues that are often concerned with conflicting rights and responsibilities: the inherent right of mankind to travel, the no-less inherent right of indigenous people to guard their environmental heritage, and the responsibility of governments - local,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Written by leading international tourism researchers, this book examines the key trends in European tourism planning and organisation. It introduces a theoretical framework to tourism planning and organisation using a procedural and structural approach. Despite having a European focus, it is globally...