Bøger af Richard Sharpley

Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience offers a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary research on the tourist experience. It draws together multidisciplinary perspectives from leading tourism scholars to explore the emergent tourist behaviours and motivations.

This book is a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism. Drawing on existing literature, numerous examples and introducing new conceptual perspectives, it develops a theoretically informed foundation for examining the demand for and supply of dark tourism experiences.

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.

Challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over past. Reviewing the evolution of the sustainable tourism development concept, this work compares its limitations to prevailing political-economic, socio-cultural and environmental contexts.

Offers an introduction to the subject of travel and tourism that helps readers extend their understanding of key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. This book provides support on how to revise for exams, how to present calculations and how to prepare for and write assessed pieces.

This book examines the effect of Information Technology on our lives, illustrating how a lack of proper social control over IT has led to a scene of technological wizardry and real everyday gains, contaminated by discrimination, deprivation and unacceptable ethical standards.