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This book evaluates the local impacts and legacies of the Olympics in Rio by comparing Rio2016 with other Olympic experiences and evaluating the ways in which the Games served the city.

This book provides an in-depth examination of the growing Asian tourism market and consumption in Arctic destinations.

In light of today's political transformations and processes of globalisation, this book provides a systematic examination of the relationships between boundaries and tourism.

Shopping is perhaps the most universal of tourist activities. This title examines the forms and functions of approximately 50 tourist shopping villages in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States. It is suitable for scholars of Tourism, Geography, Business, and Economics.

Evaluates the theoretical approaches and applications to competitive advantage within tourist destinations and demonstrate the ways to further develop the concept of destination competitiveness for application within tourist destinations.

Examines the linkages between tourists, tourism and positive psychology. This book is of interest to those who study and practise tourism as well as scholars in a range of disciplines such as psychology, business and sociology.

Tourism demand is the foundation on which tourism-related business decisions ultimately rest. This book introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the modern developments in advanced econometric methodology within the context of tourism demand analysis and illustrates these developments with actual tourism applications.

The remarkable developments in tracking technologies over the years have opened up a wealth of possibilities in terms of research into tourist spatial behaviour. This book examines the various technologies available to track pedestrians and motorized vehicles and the moral, ethical and legal issues arising from the utilization of data obtained.

The theme of this text is the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation and consumption of landscape. It draws on a range of interdisciplinary subject areas, such as leisure and tourism studies, cultural studies and gender studies.

This book explores the factors that make the difference between successful and unsuccessful tourism projects in the marine environment.

Examining such issues as how tourism firms operate in national and global contexts, the effects of tourism on destination areas, the demand for tourism, and the interaction between tourism and natural environments, the authors explain how economic concepts and techniques can offer a clearer understanding of the subject.

This book evaluates the local impacts and legacies of the Olympics in Rio by comparing Rio2016 with other Olympic experiences and evaluating the ways in which the Games served the city.

In a world that is increasingly divided and faced with global environmental crisis, resilience has become a key concept with great relevance to tourism.

This book provides an in-depth examination of slow food, tourism and cities, demonstrating how these elements are intertwined with each other and the larger slow movement, as part of the modern search for "the good life."

This indispensable contribution provides a comprehensive, state of the art perspective on progress towards the objectives of sustainable development within the tourism sector across the globe by focusing on the environmental performance and adoption of environmental management systems by tourism enterprises.

Offers a selection of the best paper submitted to the 2006 tourism conference at the University of Surrey, which itself is a celebration of 40 years of tourism education at the University. This book offers insights and approaches to tourism research rather than case studies or applications of research methods to fresh contexts.

The book focuses on the theoretical, policy and practice linkages and disjunctures between tourism and creative industry sectors.

This book advances the current literature on destination marketing by using innovative up-to-date case studies from a wide geographical representation.

This book applies knowledge management and social network theories to the business of tourism to shed light on successful operations of tourism knowledge networks.

Core values of society, health and wellbeing impact today on all aspects of our lives, and have also increasingly influenced patterns of tourism consumption and production. In this context wellness has developed into a significant dimension of tourism in a number of new and long established destinations. However, although it is consistently referred to as one of the most rapidly growing forms of tourism worldwide there still remains a dearth of academic literature on this topic.This book uniquely focuses on the supply side of wellness tourism from a destination perspective in terms of the generation and delivery of products and services for tourists who seek to maintain and improve their health. This approach provides a better understanding of how wellness tourism destinations develop and explores the specific drivers of that growth in a destination context and how destinations successfully compete against each other in globalised market place. A range of wellness destination development and management issues are examined including the importance of authenticity, an appropriate policy framework, delivery of high quality goods and services, participation of a broad range of stakeholders and the development of networks and clusters as well as collaborative strategies essential for a successful development and management of a wellness tourism destination. International case studies and examples from established and new wellness tourism destinations are integrated throughout.This timely volume written by leaders in this sector will be of interest to tourism and hospitality students and academics internationally.

In a world that is increasingly divided and faced with global environmental crisis, resilience has become a key concept with great relevance to tourism. This book signals a paradigmatic shift in long term tourism development planning, moving away from the dominant focus on sustainability towards a focus on resilience planning. It provides a critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience and the relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the complexity of social change with resilience planning in a range of tourism contexts. From the case studies provided, important lessons can be drawn as to how to deal with increasingly unstable economic, social and environmental systems.

Resilience lies at the core of understanding the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex socio-environmental systems. Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change draws on original empirical and theoretical insights to explore how tourism communities and economies respond to environmental change from a resilience perspective. Contributions include a range of tourism contexts from coastal to mountain, urban to remote; and a variety of cases that emphasize both fast and slow change. This timely and significant work will appeal to those working in tourism studies, tourism management, environmental geography and environmental sciences.

This book calls for positive tourism, principally grounded in theories from positive psychology (the study of what makes life worth living), and the development of a body of knowledge that explains what characterises optimal tourist experiences, what enables host communities to flourish and what encourages workers in tourism to thrive.