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Draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context.

Analyzes the issues facing contemporary India as a destination and a potential source of tourists. This book examines aspects of tourism in India including tourism governance, cultural tourism, nature-based tourism from the supply side and international tourism, domestic tourism, outbound tourism and the Indian Diaspora from the demand side.

Considers the active social role of children (0-18) and parents in shaping the nature of the family holiday experience. This book offers insights into the holiday desires, expectations and experiences of children and the families' tourism behaviour. It traces the modern history of the demand for and provision of holidays for children and families.

Aims to consider the future direction of the study of tourism. This book charts the development of tourism as an area of study, critiques contemporary epistemologies of tourism framed around the social science versus management dichotomy, and offers alternative approaches to the study of tourism.

Explores the relationship between tourism and climate change in both Arctic and Antarctic polar regions by considering the associated environmental, economic, social and political factors. This book draws on both Arctic and Antarctic Polar region case studies to help illustrate these climate change issues.

Using a host of international examples Butcher examines what the advocates of 'new tourism' see as being wrong with mass tourism, looks critically at the claims made for the new alternatives and makes a case for guilt-free holidays.

As one of the world's largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, and political impacts. This book offers a synthesis of tourism's role in our contemporary world, both as an agent of change, and as a response to it. It illustrates that well managed tourism can make a positive contribution to destinations.

An in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community and place, showing how community ownership and participation in tourism affect the politics of representation and identity and the nature of the tourist experience.

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. This book invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt.

Analyzes the history and development of Chinese international travelling, the politics and economics behind the upsurge, and the background of the travellers. This book explains the economic and social background of the surge in tourism and the changes in policy in the country since 1949.

Considers how leisure and tourism acts as a major focus by which power may be understood in a geographical context. Exploring the intricacies of the relationships between power, tourism and leisure, this volume illustrates the extent to which power impacts on the unfolding structures, practices and organization of tourism and leisure.

This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries.

This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices.

Overtourism explores this growing tourism phenomenon which is currently creating tensions in tourist destinations worldwide. This volume proposes a framework for possible solutions and management strategies for dealing with `overtourism¿ and the various negative impacts that large quantities of tourists can impose.

Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mediterranean showcases and examines the current and future trends in sustainable tourism in this popular region where tourism is one of the leading determinants of economic development.

Tourism and Hospitality in Conflict-ridden Destinations provides insight into the various types of current and post¿conflict destinations worldwide and the steps that might be taken to transform them into future tourist destinations.

Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africäs tourism trajectory and future. It offers a uniquely optimistic outlook for tourism in Africa whilst acknowledging the many challenges that African countries continue to grapple with.

Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and activities. There has been a surge in volunteer programmes offered in range of destinations organised by variety of charities & tour operators. This book aims to take an in-depth analysis of the complex issues associated with traditional and contemporary volunteer tourism, from volunteer tourism and sustainability to the examination of volunteer tourism stakeholders: volunteers themselves, the host to guest exchange amd the organisations. This timely addition to the small but growing academic literature on this topic will be of interest to tourism students and academics internationally.

The volume¿s focus on the long standing connection between tourism and national parks; and the changing concept of national parks over time and space give the book a distinct niche in the national parks and tourism literature.

This collection focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes.

This book looks at urban tourism as a source of contention and analyses conflicts that have emerged in cities of the Global North and South, exploring the various ways in which community groups, residents and other organizations have responded to - and challenged - tourism development in an international, comparative perspective.