Frontmatter -- DEDICATION -- IN MEMORIAM -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction / Hall, C. Michael -- Part 1: Foundations of the TALC -- Introduction / Butler, Richard W. -- 1. The Concept of a Tourist Area Cycle of Evolution: Implications for Management of Resources /...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword / Cohen, Erik -- Preface / Singh, Tej Vir -- Introduction / Singh, Tej Vir -- 1 I Am a Traveller, You Are a Visitor, They Are Tourists But Who Are Post-Tourists? / Uriely, Natan / Dunn, David / McCabe, Scott -- 2 Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or...

Professor Bill Faulkner was the father of tourism research in Australia, having spent 20 years in the field, first within government and then in academe. He was a visionary whose impact on the tourism research field extended well beyond Australia. This book contains a collection of Bill’s...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Contributors -- Foreword / Deery, Margaret -- Introduction / Hillman, Wendy / Radel, Kylie -- 1. Ontology, Epistemology: Paradigms and Parameters for Qualitative Approaches to Tourism Research / Killion, Les / Fisher, Rickie -- 2. A...

The aim of this book is to bridge the disciplines of philosophy and tourism and to provide an analysis and application of philosophical issues of tourism. In doing so this book focuses on three key areas of knowledge, aesthetics and values.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Tourism and Religion: Origins, Interactions and Issues / Butler, Richard / Suntikul, Wantanee -- Part 1: Faiths and Tourism -- Introduction -- 2 Indigenous Tourism: The Most Ancient of...

This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed.

Strategic planning within a community framework is essential for tourism to reach its potential. This book combines the four principal functions of business management and stakeholder analysis to develop a model of collaborative decision making. This model offers a template for communities to...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Better to Laugh Than Cry -- 2. It Will Be a Laugh -- 3. Joking Our Way Through the Day -- 4. That’s a Funny Story -- 5. Not Funny -- 6. In it for a Laugh -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acronyms -- Contributors -- 1. A Comparative Approach to European Tourism Planning and Organisation Systems: An Introduction / Costa, Carlos / Panyik, Emese / Buhalis, Dimitrios -- Part 1: Northern Europe -- 2. Tourism in Denmark: From Ugly...