Advances in Tourism

Dark Tourism and Crime

By Derek Dalton

Series: Advances in Tourism

Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor for sites that are associated with death, suffering and trauma. However, whilst books have been devoted to dark tourism as a...

Published November 18th 2014 by Routledge

Responsible Tourist Behaviour

By Clare Weeden

Series: Advances in Tourism

What is important to ethical consumers when thinking about going on holiday and how do they incorporate their lifestyle choices into these holidays? What values inform their lifestyles and how do they satisfy these values on holiday? Do ethical consumers automatically become ethical tourists or is...

Published August 8th 2013 by Routledge

Tourist Experience and Fulfilment

Insights from Positive Psychology

Edited by Sebastian Filep, Philip Pearce

Series: Advances in Tourism

What makes life worth living? Many people would argue that it is fulfilling experiences. These experiences are characterised by feelings of joy and pleasure, positive relationships and a sense of engagement, meaning and achievement. Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial...

Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge

Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism

By Alisha Ali, Andrew J. Frew

Series: Advances in Tourism

Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the industry. There have been numerous texts written on sustainable tourism and the measures to mitigate and manage...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

Future Tourism

Political, Social and Economic Challenges

Edited by James Leigh, Craig Webster, Stanislav Ivanov

Series: Advances in Tourism

This book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is threatening society, and makes suggestions on what the impact will be and how tourism will be changed to integrate with the new...

Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge

Contemporary Tourist Experience

Concepts and Consequences

Edited by Richard Sharpley, Philip Stone

Series: Advances in Tourism

This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent...

Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

Series: Advances in Tourism

This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as...

Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Tourism and Retail

The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

Edited by Charles McIntyre

Series: Advances in Tourism

Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of...

Published February 28th 2012 by Routledge

International Sports Events

Impacts, Experiences and Identities

Edited by Richard Shipway, Alan Fyall

Series: Advances in Tourism

This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first...

Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge

Tourism Supply Chain Management

By Haiyan Song

Series: Advances in Tourism

Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers as...

Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge