Bücher von C. Michael Hall

Asia is regarded as the fastest growing area for international and domestic tourism in the world today and over the next 20 years. Given the economic, social and environmental importance of tourism in the region, there is a need for a comprehensive and readable overview of the critical debates and controversies in tourism in the region and the major factors that are affecting tourism development both now and in the foreseeable future.This Handbook provides a contemporary survey of the region and its continued growth and development as a key destination and generator of tourism, which is marked by a high proportion of intra-regional travel. The book is divided into five sections. This first section provides an introduction to the region and context to the nationally focused chapters. The next three sections are then broadly based on the three UNWTO Asian regions: South-East Asia, South and Central Asia, and East and North-East Asia, providing readers with a valuable snapshot of tourism at various scales, and from various approaches and positions. The concluding section considers future prospects for tourism in Asia. The handbook is interdisciplinary in coverage and is also international in scope through its authorship and content. It presents a range of perspectives and understanding of the processes and forces that are shaping tourism in this fascinating and dynamic region that is one of the focal points of global tourism.This is essential reading for students, researchers and academics interested in tourism in the growth region of Asia now and in the future.

Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau's 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the early 19th Century, for example, helped create a philosophical foundation for the importance of the act of walking as an act of engagement with nature. Similarly, and sometimes inseparable from secular appreciation, pilgrimage trails provide opportunities for finding self and others in the travails of the walk. More recently, walking has been embraced as a means of encouraging greater health and well-being, community improvement and more sustainable means of travel. Yet despite the significance of the subject of walking there is as yet no integrated treatment of the subject in the social science literature.This handbook therefore brings together a number of the main themes on the study of walking from different disciplines and literatures into a single volume that can be accessed from across the social sciences. It is divided into five main sections: culture, society and historical context; social practices, perceptions and behaviours; hiking trails and pilgrimage routes; health, well-being and psychology; and method, planning and design. Each of these highlights current approaches and major themes in research on walking in a range of different environments.This handbook carves out a unique niche in the study of walking. The international and cross-disciplinary nature of the contributions of the book are expected to be of interest to numerous academic fields in the social and health sciences, as well as to urban and regional planners and those in charge of the management of outdoor recreation and tourism globally.

This volume describes the economic, social and environmental impacts of second homes as well as their planning implications and places such discussions within the context of contemporary human mobility. It represents the first major international analysis and review of second homes for over 25 years.

Lakes are some of the world's most popular tourism attractions. However, the sustainable development of lake tourism has become increasingly problematic. This volume brings together the key elements of lake tourism in order to present the urgent need for an integrated approach to lacustrine tourism systems management.

Pro-poor tourism is currently receiving enormous attention from the World Tourism Organization, government, industry and NGOs. This book provides one of the first assessments of the effectiveness of pro-poor tourism as a development strategy and tackles the issue of who benefits from tourism's potential role in poverty reduction.

This is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the broader resilience literature. The book examines resilience at individual, organisation and destination levels, and with respect to the wider tourism system. It is designed to be an upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate primer on resilience in tourism.

This book offers a comprehensive global examination of the relationship between public transport and tourism. It offers a unique analysis of the transport experience and shows how the public transport system, the tourism industry and the environment all benefit when public transport is widely used by tourists.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and water. It is the first book to thoroughly examine the interrelationships of tourism and water use based on global, regional and business perspectives.

As one of the world's largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, and political impacts. This book offers a synthesis of tourism's role in our contemporary world, both as an agent of change, and as a response to it. It illustrates that well managed tourism can make a positive contribution to destinations.

Tourism is an increasingly important industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) that is integral to economic, social and sustainable development. This book is includes case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resources, concepts and issues.