Bücher der Reihe Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

This book is one of the first to critically address the substantial political, philosophical and ethical issues that arise out of the transnational practices of medical tourism. Through a series of chapters, the book engages with key issues such as its role of regulatory and policy structures in influencing medical and health tourism, in terms of being both a push and pull force on mobilities of medical and health tourism. These issues are investigated , considering a range of developing and developed countries, medical systems and health economic perspectives.

Analyzes the history and development of Chinese international travelling, the politics and economics behind the upsurge, and the background of the travellers. This book explains the economic and social background of the surge in tourism and the changes in policy in the country since 1949.

Since 2017, the term 'overtourism' has become the buzzword for destinations suffering the strain of tourism. It is a critical issue for the 21st Century and beyond, and to date has only been examined from a tourism industry perspective. This book takes a different stand by investigating overtourism from a tourism education perspective.

This timely book is the first to explore the physical and intangible legacies of historic and contemporary dark tourism sites, and the contribution such sites make to place identity. It achieves this by critically reviewing the marketing, management and interpretation of contemporary and historic sites associated with death, disaster, atrocity and related events from a wide range of geographical locations. In doing so the book proposes a compose model for discussing place identity and dark tourism which will provide further understanding about these increasingly popular destinations.

Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, environmental and tourism studies, the chapters in this anthology employ a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism development and impacts on the community and environment. The volume begins by chronicling interdisciplinary perspectives on political ecology of tourism as well as how the subject has been treated in tourism studies to date. It addresses why political ecology has been given so little attention, despite the widespread consideration of the environment and politics in tourism studies. As the chapters in this anthology make clear, political ecologies of tourism are mediated by a range of political, economic and cultural relations of power. As a result of these relations, some ecological concerns are privileged while others are marginalized. This book advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism development and impacts on the community and environment. It offers the reader a critical and empirically grounded understanding of the contemporary relevance of political ecology to address tourism related issues such as power, uneven development, environmentalism, globalization and political economy. This book will be valuable reading for those interested in the intersection of geography, anthropology and tourism studies.

This book examines the role of tourism in Palestine at three main levels.

Informative and enlightening, Rath fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights using revealing international case studies.

The first book to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, it combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, with chapters written in a reflexive style that demonstrate the ways in which the techniques can be

Over the past two decades, tourism has become the major driver of economic growth in many Pacific Island countries.

The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied theoretical advances as researchers strive to understand representations, experiences, thoughts, emotions and identities of the various actors involved in the reproduction of social memory and heritage landscapes.Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies describes and demonstrates innovations - including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches - for analysing the process and politics of remembering and touring the past through place. An introductory chapter looks at the history of social memory and heritage tourism research and the particular challenges posed by these fields of study. In subsequent chapters, the reader is lead through the varying methodologies employed by presenting them in the context of an in-depth case study from range of geographical locations. The resulting volume showcases innovative research in social memory and heritage tourism and provides the reader with insights into how they can successfully conduct their own research while avoiding common pitfalls. This title will be useful reading for scholars, professionals and students in tourism, geography, anthropology and museum studies who are preparing to conduct research on the reproduction of social memory in particular landscapes and places or are interested in investigating heritage tourism practices and representations.

Over the past decade tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. There is a need for the field to come to terms theoretically with the contemporary and future realities of tourism as a truly global phenomenon. This significant volume seeks to set the theoretical agenda, engaging directly with what tourism does in practice and in place and demonstrate the need for a theoretical intervention that moves tourism scholarship beyond the province of Anglophone thinking. The volume achieves this by explicitly bridging `western¿ and `non-western¿ scholarship on tourism; reframing theoretical discussions around `real practices¿ instead of abstract typologies; and radically delinking tourism theory from the grand narratives of modernity and assumptions about authenticity, identity, tradition, and development.

Discusses the use of various visual methods, including still images (such as photographs, postcards, drawings) and moving images (such as video) within the context of tourism research. This book focuses on issues important for students, researchers and academics doing visual tourism research or those who are contemplating using these methods.

Discusses the use of various visual methods, including still images (such as photographs, postcards, drawings) and moving images (such as video) within the context of tourism research. This book focuses on issues important for students, researchers and academics doing visual tourism research or those who are contemplating using these methods.

Considers the active social role of children (0-18) and parents in shaping the nature of the family holiday experience. This book offers insights into the holiday desires, expectations and experiences of children and the families' tourism behaviour. It traces the modern history of the demand for and provision of holidays for children and families.

Analyzes the issues facing contemporary India as a destination and a potential source of tourists. This book examines aspects of tourism in India including tourism governance, cultural tourism, nature-based tourism from the supply side and international tourism, domestic tourism, outbound tourism and the Indian Diaspora from the demand side.

This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism, and it offers significant insights into how it might reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings in tourism research.

This volume highlights the central issues of tourism development in the Caribbean. In the process it provides a range of theoretical frameworks, methodological tools and case-studies from which future directions in management and development might be based.

The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences. This book focuses on this component of contemporary tourist research.

Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and activities. This book aims to present an analysis of the complex issues associated with traditional and contemporary volunteer tourism.

Using a host of international examples Butcher examines what the advocates of 'new tourism' see as being wrong with mass tourism, looks critically at the claims made for the new alternatives and makes a case for guilt-free holidays.

Explores the relationship between tourism and climate change in both Arctic and Antarctic polar regions by considering the associated environmental, economic, social and political factors. This book draws on both Arctic and Antarctic Polar region case studies to help illustrate these climate change issues.

An in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community and place, showing how community ownership and participation in tourism affect the politics of representation and identity and the nature of the tourist experience.

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. This book invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt.

Explores the origins and multiple meanings of National Parks and their relationship to tourism in a variety of national contexts. Taking a global comparative approach, this book examines how and why national parks have spread and evolved, how they have been fashioned and used, and the integral role of tourism within national parks.

Presents research on the capacity of big cities to generate tourism areas as visitors discover and help create urban experiences off the beaten track. This book examines similarities and differences in these processes in a group of established world cities located in global circuits of tourism such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Sydney.