Debates around the concept of authenticity date to the earliest theories of tourism, as scholars attempted to … authenticity have burgeoned from epistemological to ontological notions drawing a broad range of philosophers into tourism research … authenticity research in tourism, making this volume appropriate as both a comprehensive text and as individual investigations …

This book explores the changing landscape of tourism education in the global context. It examines and seeks to provide … answers to three main questions: What knowledge and skills should tourism students be exposed to? How should tourism education … programs at all levels be designed to create responsible leaders for the future of tourism? What is the employability and range …

This book recognizes that while tourism research has undoubtedly penetrated and gone beyond a number of knowledge … in tourism research if it is to remain relevant. In this regard the book contains original papers which span a number of … creative topics and debates and which transcend existing frontiers of tourism knowledge, including pop-culture tourism, gospel …

The theme of this book is the phenomenon of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. Adopting a broad … understanding of the paradigmatic field of tourism as the evolution and relationship between established and emergent schools of … thought, this book explores the dynamics between tourism knowledge and the phenomenal world of tourism. It addresses …

This volume examines and contrasts different perspectives on and approaches to the geography of tourism from across … European regions and language traditions. Authors have critiqued the dominance of Anglo Saxon voices in research on tourism … geographies not just in linguistic terms but also in relation to the framing and theorizing of space, place and tourism appearing …

The book examines the extent to which Coser's (1956) 16 propositions can apply to tourism impact studies and, where … social conflict in tourism development as well as impacts of tourism on disadvantaged ethnic communities in China. …

Fashion and tourism have common structures and similarities on many fronts. Both phenomena and their operations have … also important business sectors globally. Fashion and Tourism: Parallel Stories analyzes the convergences between fashion … and tourism from an academic perspective. It investigates the existing linkages between these industries, as well as how …

Compiled from 10 years of research, with chapters contributed by experts in the field, we demonstrate how tourism will … benefit from applying a new paradigm found in mainstream psychology, termed here the 'Cognitive Wave'. Tourism professionals … cognition. Chapters 4 and 5 provide examples of disambiguation, translating tourism concepts and theories into those of …