Tourism and Oil - Preparing for the Challenge

This book examines oil constraints and tourism and addresses one of the key challenges for the tourism industry in the future. It provides an estimate of how much oil tourism consumes globally and summarises state-of-the-art information on oil resources, oil data and public discourse. It also explores dimensions of tourism in a post-peak oil world.

About the author

Susanne Becken is the Director of the Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) and a Professor at Griffith University, Australia. She is also Adjunct Professor at Lincoln University, New Zealand. Her research interests include sustainable tourism, climate change, energy use and resource efficiency, resilience, and environmental policy. She has published widely in these areas and her most recent papers appear in the Journal of Travel Research, the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research and Global Environmental Change.

Product details

• Authors: Susanne Becken
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2015
• EAN: 9781845414887
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-488-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Tourism Essentials; Tourism Essentials
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches