Tomorrow's Tourist: Scenarios & Trends

Tomorrow's Tourist: Scenarios & Trends
Author: Ian Yeoman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2009-06-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136354883

By 2030, China will be the world’s largest tourism destination, holidays in Outer Space will be the ultimate luxury experience, extreme Swedish ironing will be an Olympic Sport, embedded technologies will be the norm in future tourists and skiing in the Alps will be no more. These are some of the changes that will occur between now and 2030 that will change world tourism. Tomorrows Tourist: Scenarios & Trends enables readers to imagine what a future tourist might be, where they will go and what they will do. This is the most comprehensive analysis of how world tourism is changing and what it means for destinations. Each chapter consists of a scenario about a future tourist, which is then is backed up with evidence and trends plus a number of assumptions about the future. The book is accompanied by its own website at http://www.tomorrowstourist.com which is owned and regularly updated by the author.

2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism

2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism
Author: Ian Yeoman
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845413016

This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought provoking analytical commentary.

Tomorrow's Tourist

Tomorrow's Tourist
Author: Ian Yeoman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2009-06-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136354891

* Based on first hand cutting edge futures research * Forecasts for World Tourism to 2030 * Suggests what the tourist will be doing on holiday in 2030 * Discuss issues such as climate change, alternative tourist destinations and consumer trends * Shows you how to apply trends in your business * Information provided by the Future Foundation, one of Europe’s leading consumer think tanks (www.futurefoundation.net)

Family Tourism

Family Tourism
Author: Heike Schanzel
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 184541327X

This cutting-edge international book brings together leading experts? latest research in the field of family tourism by adding to its underdeveloped knowledge base. Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives underlines the infancy of academic family tourism research that belies its market importance and directs towards future implications and theoretical debates about the place of families within tourism.

Global Trends 2040

Global Trends 2040
Author: National Intelligence Council
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646794973

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

The Future of Food Tourism

The Future of Food Tourism
Author: Ian Yeoman
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015-07-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 184541540X

This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience associated with place and history? The book’s approach to the future has focused on explanation; the contributors look for the causes, trends and theoretical concepts that explain change, thus attempting to justify and explore the future. Scenarios are used to explore alternative futures and the book examines the implications for the future of food tourism and highlights future research avenues. This book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and researchers in the field of tourism studies.

2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism

2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism
Author: Ian Yeoman
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845413024

In 2050, it is predicted that 4.7bn or nearly 50% of the world's population will take an international holiday. But can humankind meet that forecast given the issues of ageing populations, peak oil, the global financial crisis and climate change? This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought-provoking analytical commentary.

Tomorrow's Markets

Tomorrow's Markets
Author: Don S. Doering
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this publication the leading indicators of world economic, environmental and social condition have been collected and communicated specifically for an international business audience. The report reflects the rising interest in using market solutions to address the world's most pressing problems, and gives businesses a tool to better respond to global changes. The topics covered include population, wealth, nutrition, health, education, consumption, energy, emissions, efficiency, ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater, urbanization, mobility, communications, labor, democracy, accountability, and privatization. The global trend for each topic is presented in a concise format that can be easily adapted for business use. [WRI website]

Future Tourism

Future Tourism
Author: James Leigh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415509025

The book draws on the views of leading thinkers in Tourism and considers a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives facing Tourism industry for the first time in one volume: dwindling energy, new technology, security (like war and terrorism), political economy, sustainability, and human resources. By critically reviewing these social and economic challenges in a global scale, the book helps to create a comprehensive view of future tourism in the unfolding and challenging society of the third millennium.

Strategic Management in Tourism, 3rd Edition. CABI Tourism Texts

Strategic Management in Tourism, 3rd Edition. CABI Tourism Texts
Author: Luiz Moutinho
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786390248

This comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. Now in its third edition, and reviewing the major factors affecting international tourism management, this well-established student resource provides an essential overview of strategic management for students and professionals in the tourism sector.