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Informative and enlightening, Rath fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights using revealing international case studies.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant.

This work introduces features of diasporas, exploring their implications for the consumption, production and practices of tourism. It examines experiences of diaspora tourists, the settings and spaces of diaspora tourism and the production of diaspora tourism. Examples are drawn from the Chinese, Jewish, Southeast Asian, Croatian, Dutch and Welsh.

The first book to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, it combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, with chapters written in a reflexive style that demonstrate the ways in which the techniques can be

This volume draws together a distinguished list of contributors to study the global phenomena of religious tourism, examining and challenging existing concepts and practices, and raising significant contemporary questions.

Over the past two decades, tourism has become the major driver of economic growth in many Pacific Island countries.

The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied theoretical advances as researchers strive to understand representations, experiences, thoughts, emotions and identities of the various actors involved in the reproduction of social memory and heritage landscapes.Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies describes and demonstrates innovations - including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches - for analysing the process and politics of remembering and touring the past through place. An introductory chapter looks at the history of social memory and heritage tourism research and the particular challenges posed by these fields of study. In subsequent chapters, the reader is lead through the varying methodologies employed by presenting them in the context of an in-depth case study from range of geographical locations. The resulting volume showcases innovative research in social memory and heritage tourism and provides the reader with insights into how they can successfully conduct their own research while avoiding common pitfalls. This title will be useful reading for scholars, professionals and students in tourism, geography, anthropology and museum studies who are preparing to conduct research on the reproduction of social memory in particular landscapes and places or are interested in investigating heritage tourism practices and representations.

This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. This thought provoking volume contributes to the understanding of the interrelationships between war, peace and tourism in many different parts of the world at different scales. It will be valuable reading for all those interested in this topic as well as dark tourism, battlefield tourism and heritage tourism.

This book is one of the first to critically address the substantial political, philosophical and ethical issues that arise out of the transnational practices of medical tourism. Through a series of chapters, the book engages with key issues such as its role of regulatory and policy structures in influencing medical and health tourism, in terms of being both a push and pull force on mobilities of medical and health tourism. These issues are investigated , considering a range of developing and developed countries, medical systems and health economic perspectives.

This is the first edited work dealing solely and specifically with the global phenomenon slum tourism from interdisciplinary perspectives. Building on research by prolific researchers the book contributes a comprehensive and unique overview of current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the subject. Drawing on research from a range of geographical regions and multidisciplinary perspectives this ground breaking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of tourism.

Discusses the use of various visual methods, including still images (such as photographs, postcards, drawings) and moving images (such as video) within the context of tourism research. This book focuses on issues important for students, researchers and academics doing visual tourism research or those who are contemplating using these methods.

Over the past decade tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. There is a need for the field to come to terms theoretically with the contemporary and future realities of tourism as a truly global phenomenon. This significant volume seeks to set the theoretical agenda, engaging directly with what tourism does in practice and in place and demonstrate the need for a theoretical intervention that moves tourism scholarship beyond the province of Anglophone thinking. The volume achieves this by explicitly bridging `western¿ and `non-western¿ scholarship on tourism; reframing theoretical discussions around `real practices¿ instead of abstract typologies; and radically delinking tourism theory from the grand narratives of modernity and assumptions about authenticity, identity, tradition, and development.

Discusses the use of various visual methods, including still images (such as photographs, postcards, drawings) and moving images (such as video) within the context of tourism research. This book focuses on issues important for students, researchers and academics doing visual tourism research or those who are contemplating using these methods.

Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and activities. This book aims to present an analysis of the complex issues associated with traditional and contemporary volunteer tourism.

The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences. This book focuses on this component of contemporary tourist research.

Informative and enlightening, Rath fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights using revealing international case studies.

This volume highlights the central issues of tourism development in the Caribbean. In the process it provides a range of theoretical frameworks, methodological tools and case-studies from which future directions in management and development might be based.

The importance of preservation and management of cultural heritage has been realized as an increasing number of tourists are visiting heritage attractions. This book synthesizes global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations.

The importance of preservation and management of cultural heritage has been realized as an increasing number of tourists are visiting heritage attractions. This book synthesizes global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations.

Explores the origins and multiple meanings of National Parks and their relationship to tourism in a variety of national contexts. Taking a global comparative approach, this book examines how and why national parks have spread and evolved, how they have been fashioned and used, and the integral role of tourism within national parks.

Presents research on the capacity of big cities to generate tourism areas as visitors discover and help create urban experiences off the beaten track. This book examines similarities and differences in these processes in a group of established world cities located in global circuits of tourism such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Sydney.

Analyzes the impact and effectiveness of creative strategies in tourism development and charts the emergence of 'creative tourism'. This book demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of creativity as a tourism development strategy and marketing tool.

In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. This title focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, and cultural changes.

Addresses contentious issues facing consumptive wildlife tourism in the twenty-first century.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant.