A Research Agenda for Gender and Tourism

A Research Agenda for Gender and Tourism
Author: Erica Wilson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2023-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789902533

Original and thought-provoking, this Research Agenda investigates the many ways in which tourism is gendered. It outlines current thought and directions for future research, looking forward by imagining and challenging the ways that gender will continue to intersect with and impact on tourism, as well as looking back to trace the key developments and contributions in gendered thinking.

A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development

A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development
Author: Richard Sharpley
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788112415

Tourism is integral to local, regional and national development policies; as a major global economic sector, it has the potential to underpin economic growth and wider development. Yet, transformations in both the nature of tourism and the dynamic environment within which it occurs give rise to new questions with regards to its developmental role. This Research Agenda offers a state-of-the-art review of the research into the tourism-development nexus. Exploring issues including governance, policy, philanthropy, poverty reduction and tourism consumption, it identifies significant gaps in the literature, and proposes new and sometimes provocative avenues for future research.

A Research Agenda for Place Branding

A Research Agenda for Place Branding
Author: Dominic Medway
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839102853

This cutting-edge Research Agenda for Place Branding explores ideas and debates that inform a refreshing take on the future of place branding and marketing. It argues that we are at a juncture where the logical and sensible step is to push the ‘reset button’ on such activity and fully reconsider its purpose and goals.

Gender Equality and Tourism

Gender Equality and Tourism
Author: Stroma Cole
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2018-07-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786394421

Does tourism empower women working in and producing tourism? How are women using the transformations tourism brings to their advantage? How do women, despite prejudice and stereotypes, break free, resist and renegotiate gender norms at the personal and societal levels? When does tourism increase women's autonomy, agency and authority? The first of its kind this book delivers: A critical approach to gender and tourism development from different stakeholder perspectives, from INGOs, national governments, and managers as well as workers in a variety of fields producing tourism. Stories of individual women working across the world in many aspects of tourism. A foreword by Margaret Bryne Swain and contributions from academics and practitions from across the globe. A lively and accessible style of writing that links academic debates with lived realities while offering hope and practical suggestions for improving gender equality in tourism. Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment, a critical gendered analysis that questions the extent to which tourism brings women empowerment, is an engaging and thought-provoking read for students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of tourism, gender studies, development and anthropology.

A Research Agenda for Experimental Economics

A Research Agenda for Experimental Economics
Author: Chaudhuri, Ananish
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-07-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789909856

Written by well-established researchers in behavioural economics, this Research Agenda illustrates the application of incentivised decision-making experiments, highlighting how this can add a new and novel dimension to social science research. Informative and timely, it explores how experiments are being used by pioneers in a diverse range of fields when research questions may not be amenable to field studies, vignettes or surveys.

A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning

A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning
Author: Eva Stegmeijer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781788974622

This insightful Research Agenda examines the multidimensional relationships between heritage planning and pressing current societal challenges around climate, identity and development. Mapping future avenues for the field, it suggests new approaches to executing, studying and reflecting on heritage planning.

A Research Agenda for Peace and Tourism

A Research Agenda for Peace and Tourism
Author: Anna Farmaki
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2024-01-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1803927976

This highly prescient Research Agenda critically examines the delicate intersection of peace and tourism and proposes further research in order to explore how tourism may contribute to peace or, conversely, hinder the peacebuilding efforts of destinations in conflict. Chapters discuss tourism as a peace-builder, the acceptance of dark tourism, a gender approach to peace through tourism, and corporate social responsibility as a contributor to peace in conflict-ridden situations.

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism
Author: Nancy Duxbury
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019
Genre: Creative ability
ISBN: 1788110722

Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts combine to give shape to the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and pragmatic issues.

A Research Agenda for Political Marketing

A Research Agenda for Political Marketing
Author: Newman, Bruce I.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800377207

This Research Agenda documents and establishes the thinking of leading scholars in the field of political marketing and related sub-fields, also encompassing additional social science disciplines that intersect at the crossroads of political marketing.

A Research Agenda for Governance

A Research Agenda for Governance
Author: Peters, B. Guy
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788117999

This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of existing and emerging general principles of EU law by scholars from a wide range of expertise in EU law, international law, legal theory and different areas of substantive law. It explores the theory, content, role and function of general principles in EU law to better understand general principles as a mechanism for the substantive openness of the EU legal order as well as for cross-fertilization and coherence of legal orders. Their potential as a tool to manage the interaction of legal regimes and orders is a particular focal point and will make this Handbook a must-read for scholars of EU Law.