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  • Tourism Spaces

    Environments, Locations, and Movements

    Edited by Alan A. Lew ...
    Geographic space is a fundamental and essential construct of the physical reality within which we live, move, and construct our world. Through space we create ‘others’ (anything that is any distance from ‘us’) and we experience time (by moving from one place point to another). Because it is so fundamental to our experience, we often take geographic space for granted.Tourism Spaces: Environments, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Tourism and COVID-19

    Implications for Theory and Practice

    Edited by Alan A. Lew, Joseph M. Cheer, Patrick Brouder, Mary Mostafanezhad ...
    This comprehensive book focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming travel and tourism, globally. Despite the devastation caused by COVID-19, authors argue that within the ongoing crisis, there is also an opportunity to positively transform the tourism sector in ways that contribute to a more hopeful future for tourism practitioners, tourists and host communities.As the world emerges from ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Tourism Places in Asia

    Destinations, Stakeholders and Consumption

    Edited by Alan A. Lew ...
    Tourism Places in Asia examines the impacts of tourism on places in East and Southwest Asia. Asia has been the most dynamic region for tourism development in recent decades, and tourism research from this region has grown significantly to better understand this phenomenon. The primary focus is on the Chinese realm of mainland China and Taiwan. East Asia has been the most dynamic region for tourism ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Tourism and Resilience

    by Bruno Abegg, Arjen Alberts, Maria Amoamo, Godfrey Baldacchino, Susanne Becken, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Jeremy Buultjens, Athula Chammika Gnanapala, Harold Goodwin, Bijan Khazai, Alan A Lew, Glenn McCartney, Pin T. Ng, Jonathan Pugh, Iraj Ratnayake, Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros, Daniel Scott, Valerie A. Sheppard, Jennifer Strickland-Munro, Robert Steiger, Lisa Trawöger, Tsung-chiung Wu ...
    This is the first book to address the concept of resilience and its specific application and relevance to tourism, in particular tourism destinations. Resilience relates to the ability of organisms, communities, ecosystems and populations to withstand the impacts of external forces while retaining their integrity and ability to continue functioning. It is particularly applicable to tourism ... Read more

    $119.99 USD

  • New Research Paradigms in Tourism Geography

    Edited by Alan A. Lew ...
    This collection of papers from Tourism Geographies emphasizes new and emerging research paradigms in the geographic study of tourism. The papers included in this collection follow one of two threads: explicitly supporting specific research frameworks, or implicitly presenting new and emerging theoretical perspectives through empirical research on the geographical topics. These begin with three ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability

    Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change

    Edited by Joseph M. Cheer, Alan A. Lew ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with significant relevance for tourism.A paradigmatic shift is taking place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a critical ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Balancing Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations

    Proceedings of the Tourism Outlook Conference 2015

    Edited by Akhmad Saufi, Imanuella R. Andilolo, Norain Othman, Alan A. Lew ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015. The book presents comprehensive discussions on sustainability in the tourism industry. It includes research on various constituents of the tourism sector and analyses of each of them from a sustainability standpoint. Case studies that are global in nature are presented to show how sustainable ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change

    Definitions and Frameworks

    Edited by Alan A. Lew, Joseph M. Cheer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex social and environmental systems. Despite this, tourism scholars have been slow to adopt resilience concepts, at a time when the emergence of new frameworks and applications is pressing.Drawing on original empirical and theoretical insights in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Understanding Tropical Coastal and Island Tourism Development

    Edited by Klaus Meyer-Arendt, Alan A. Lew ...
    This volume contains a collection of articles that include both case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenges of tropical coastal and island destinations throughout the world. Topics include the shortcoming of (eco)tourism in Madagascar, collaboration theory and successful multi-stakeholder partnerships on Indonesian resort islands, resilience theory and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism

    Edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, Allan M. Williams ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism presents a collection of readings that represent an essential and authoritative reference on the state-of-the-art of the interdisciplinary field of tourism studies.Presents a comprehensive and critical overview of tourism studies across the social sciencesIntroduces emerging topics and reassesses key themes in tourism studies in the light of recent ... Read more

    $225.95 USD

  • Tourism in China

    by Zhang Guangrui, John Ap, Lawrence Yu, Alan A. Lew ...
    Examine China's impact on the world tourism market!Tourism in China is a comprehensive study of tourism and the travel industry in China--past, present, and future. Since joining many of its Asia-Pacific neighbors in identifying tourism as a vehicle for socioeconomic growth and poverty alleviation, China has become the leader in the Asian travel industry, surpassing all forecasts with high and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts

    An Integrated Approach

    by C. Michael Hall, Alan A. Lew ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts. Although tourism can provide significant economic benefits for some destinations, the image of tourism as a benign and environmentally friendly industry has often been challenged. There is a clear and growing body of evidence that suggests that the effects of tourism ... Read more

    $87.99 USD