Bücher der Reihe Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

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.

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.

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.