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Informationen zum Autor I am Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage - a major inter-disciplinary research and graduate Institute working with the World Heritage Site and associated museums of Ironbridge.My interests lie in how we produce and consume categories of heritage within changing cultural and cross-cultural contexts. I am particularly interested in how tourists experience the past and how tourism works with heritage to shape identities at the individual and collective level. Klappentext ""The strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of analyses, and distinction of its contributors, nothing is comparable.""- Professor Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis""The breadth of vision and sweep of accounts is remarkable, and range of topics laudable... a rare combination of the authoritative, the challenging and stimulating.""- Professor Mike Crang, Durham UniversityTourism studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies.This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues and agenda of tourism studies, exploring:The evolution and position of tourism studiesThe relationship of tourism to cultureThe ecology and economics of tourismSpecial events and destination managementMethodologies of studyTourism and transportTourism and heritageTourism and postcolonialismGlobal tourist business operationsRanging from local to global issues, and from questions of management to the ethical dilemmas of tourism, this is a comprehensive, critically informed, constructively organized overview of the field. It draws together an inter-disciplinary group of contributors who are among the most celebrated names in the field and will be quickly recognized as a landmark in the new and expanding field of tourism studies. Zusammenfassung An in-depth! critical and multi-disciplinary overview of this expanding subject area. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Evolution and Contemporary Positioning of Tourism as a Focus of Study - Tazim Jamal and Mike Robinson PART ONE: APPROACHES TO TOURISM STUDIES Tourism and Hospitality - David Bell Anthropological Interventions in Tourism Studies - Naomi Leite and Nelson Graburn The Sociology of Tourism - Adrian Franklin The Diverse Dynamics of Cultural Studies and Tourism - David Crouch Tourism, Popular Culture and the Media - Philip Long and Mike Robinson Histories of Tourism - John K. Walton Tourism Geographies: A Review of Trends, Challenges and Opportunities - Sanjay K. Nepal Development Studies and Tourism - David J. Telfer Economics of International Tourism - John Fletcher Power, Politics and Political Science: The Politicization of Tourism - Linda K. Richter Tourism and Natural Resources - Andrew Holden Tourism: A Strategic Business Perspective - Nigel Evans PART TWO: KEY TOPICS IN TOURISM Tourism, Religion and Spirituality - Richard Sharpley Breaking down the System: How Volunteer Tourism Contributes to New Ways of Viewing Commodified Tourism - Stephen Wearing and Jess Ponting Theme Parks and the Representation of Culture and Nature: The Consumer Aesthetics of Presentation and Performance - Keith Hollinshead Architecture and Urban Planning: Practical and Theoretical Contributions - Robert Mugerauer Jr Tourism and Heritage Conservation - Aylin Orbasli and Simon Woodward The Challenges and Prospects for Sustainable Tourism and Ecotourism in Developing Countries - Joseph E. Mbaiwa and Amanda L. Stronza Rura...
