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Lakes are some of the world's most popular tourism attractions. However, the sustainable development of lake tourism has become increasingly problematic. This volume brings together the key elements of lake tourism in order to present the urgent need for an integrated approach to lacustrine tourism systems management.

This comprehensive handbook is designed to act as a single source of reference for tourism in Oceania, a region that is growing in significance as a tourism destination. It provides a detailed anatomy of tourism in the region on a country by country basis, plus a view of the future and an analysis of key issues contributed by experts in the field.

Strategic planning within a community framework is essential for tourism to reach its potential. This book combines the four principal functions of business management and stakeholder analysis to develop a model of collaborative decision making. This model offers a template for communities to understand and make the most of their tourism resources.

This volume describes the economic, social and environmental impacts of second homes as well as their planning implications and places such discussions within the context of contemporary human mobility. It represents the first major international analysis and review of second homes for over 25 years.

This volume provides a timely and intensive look at the theory and practice of codes of ethics in tourism. It includes a broad overview of what has been done to date in tourism studies in the area of code development and implementation and incorporates theoretical work from outside the tourism field in an effort to synthesise theory and practice.

This volume presents a thorough tour of the social psychological processes which underpin contemporary travel. The fascinating phenomenon of tourist behaviour deals with topics such as motivation, destination choice, travellers' on site experiences, satisfaction and learning.

This book provides a detailed examinations of the problems of nature-based tourism development in peripheral areas. It illustrates the challenges and difficulties of managing nature-based tourism resources. A central theme of the book is the degree of opportunity that nature-based tourism provides as the basis for peripheral region development.

Tourism is an increasingly important industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) that is integral to economic, social and sustainable development. This book is includes case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resources, concepts and issues.

The aim of this book is to bridge the disciplines of philosophy and tourism and to provide an analysis and application of philosophical issues of tourism. In doing so this book focuses on three key areas of knowledge, aesthetics and values.

This volume contains specially commissioned chapters by leading researchers who have used and modified the original TALC model over the past two decades, a reprint of the original article, a discussion of its origins, and a comprehensive review of most of the published material using the TALC.

This book explores how cities use tourism to bolster their economies and image, appraising it in terms of history, measurement, structure, operations and leadership. It combines both theory and practice and uses new and original case materials to exemplify mainstream approaches to city marketing and identify recurrent problems and opportunities.

This book provides a thorough and detailed understanding of tourism marketing principles and practice within the context of inter-organisational collaboration. It introduces concepts, theories and issues central to inter-organisational collaboration and includes a series of detailed thematic chapters.

The vast majority of existing academic research of coastal tourism resort management has been undertaken in northern and southern Europe at the expense of a wider global consideration. This book aims to address this deficit and develop a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts. By drawing on examples, it incorporates a detailed analysis of a range of economic, socio-cultural, political and environmental issues which are being experienced, to differing extents, by coastal tourism resorts which are at different life-cycle stages of development. The major management themes highlighted include the processes of restructuring, attempts to develop sustainable agendas and environmental issues of developing resorts in sensitive areas. Written by key experts, this book provides a critical assessment of the key management issues facing coastal tourism resorts globally. In doing so, it represents more than a mere amalgamation of existing literature as it aims to advance conceptual understanding of resort evolution and change.

This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in tourism, incorporating the light, dark and shades of grey in between. It brings together work and ideas from a diverse array of researchers from around the world and examines the affects and effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism, romance tourism, sex tourism and sexual exploitation in tourism - including the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, and sexual harassment. Sex in tourism has arguably been an understudied area of research relative to the central roles that sex plays within tourism experiences. This volume explores the complexity and nuanced nature of sex in tourism in more detail. It will be of interest to students and researchers of tourism impacts, tourist behaviour, hospitality management, destination management and development.

This book takes a look at issues in tourism development. Topics include how global the industry has become; new forms of travel and new trends in marketing and promotion. It also deals with the threats posed to tourism development by wars, global terrorism and epidemics to conclude with an optimistic view of the industry's resilience.