This book explores how cities use tourism to bolster their economies and image, appraising it in terms of history …Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Why a Book on City Tourism? -- Part 1 … City Tourism -- Chapter 1 Organising City Tourism -- Chapter 2 Measuring City Tourism -- Chapter 3 The Dynamics of City …

Geoparks in Brazil -- 11 The Geology of Ireland: providing a catalyst for sustainable tourism development -- 12 The Grand … Geotourism in Greece: A case study of the Lesvos Petrified Forest Geopark -- 16 Geotourism: Opportunity and Tourism Significance. …

, politics, and history. He explores such topics as the informal economy, the making of a telenova, sex tourism, and racis …

This book presents a detailed picture of gay and lesbian tourism from, primarily, a marketing perspective and examines … nature of homosexuality and relevant issues that bear upon tourism and marketing. … -- Chapter 5: Gay and Lesbian Tourism Destinations -- Chapter 6: Intermediaries, Accommodation and Attractions -- Chapter 7 …

Mission Tourism in Nineteenth Century Victoria -- 1.1 Aboriginal Mission Tourism in Colonial Victoria: an Overview -- 1 ….2 Methodology and Sources -- 1.3 Histories of Coranderrk -- 1.4 Studies of Tourism at Coranderrk -- 1.5 Coranderrk Aboriginal … Station - a Brief History -- 1.6 About This Book -- Select References -- 2 Tourism at Coranderrk -- 2.1 Tarra Bobby, the …

Tourism is used as a main instrument of nation building in many postcolonial countries such as Namibia, South Africa …, Botswana and Madagascar. Using case studies from these areas, this book examines the strategic objectives for tourism growth …Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Development Through Tourism? -- 2 Tourism …

This book of cases about rural tourism development in Canada demonstrates the different ways that tourism has been …Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Rural Tourism Development -- Chapter 2 … Political Economy of Rural Tourism Development in Canada -- Chapter 3 The Case of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia -- Chapter 4 The Case …

A collection of essays from scholars evaluating tourism as a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic … inequalities in poor countries. It takes a look at the successes and failures of tourism in this role, and considers why tourism as … Developed Countries: is Tourism the Best Alternative? -- 2 The Myth of Agency Through Community Participation in Ecotourism -- 3 …

In order to understand the modern tourist, concepts of mobility have begun to be applied to tourism studies and have … questioned whether the word tourism is any longer sufficient to describe the complex socio-political milieu of people on the move …. This volume analyses tourism's wider role as an agent for the mobile population of the world. …

Offers an insight into how volunteer tourism is growing and developing. This title includes case studies from … communities and commercial, non-commercial and government entities involved in volunteer tourism. …, Culture and Power -- 1 Volunteer Tourism as Alternative Tourism: Journeys Beyond Otherness -- 2 'Pettin' the Critters …