Introduction -- How to use this book -- Action research -- Autoethnography -- Case study -- Constructionism -- Content analysis -- Critical realism -- Critical theory -- Deduction -- Delphi method -- Document analysis -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Ethical practice -- Ethnomethodology --...

Within European cross-border health care, recent studies have identified several types of international patients. Within the Anglo-Saxon setting, the specific terminology of medical tourism is used. The analytical purpose of the paper is to resolve this semantic difference by suggesting an...

Recent years have seen growing media and political attention to the issue of tourism and crime in a number of countries. Issues such as drugs tourism, sex tourism & alcohol-related crime and disorder have highlighted crimes and rule-breaking by tourists.

Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Paradox of Peripherality -- 1. Perceptions from the Periphery: The Experience of Wales -- 2. PACE: Guiding Rural Tourism Development in a Fragile Area -- 3. Peripheries, Artificial Peripheries and Centres -- 4. Tourist Perceptions of the Ultimate European...