Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks

Informationen zum Autor Victoria Peel is a senior lecturer in cultural tourism management in the Graduate Tourism program hosted by the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on cultural tourism and the backpacker and student tourism markets. Anders Sørensen is owner and manager of Tourismlab.dk, which provides tourism and hospitality research and consultancy and produces knowledge of tourism and tourists. His research interests include backpacker tourism, travel guidebooks and tourism in peripheral areas. Klappentext This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. It challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook.This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. It challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Victoria Peel, Anders Sa Rensen, Anders Sorensen, Anders Sørensen, Anders Srensen
• Editore: Multilingual Matters
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781845415624
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-562-4
• Dimensioni: 148 mm x 208 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: Tourism and Cultural Change; Tourism and Cultural Change
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia; Kommunikationswissenschaft, Medienwissenschaften, Einzel- und Großhandel