Tourism Development

Tourism Development
Author: William C. Gartner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1996-08-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

For tourism professionals and urban and regional planners, this highly readable text introduces tourism development as a process with its own organizational structures and its own responses to the economic cycle of supply and demand. Here, the author keeps pace with the changing trends in tourism, its link with economic theory, and academic research as well as accessibility to travelers with across-the-board economic backgrounds.

Community Development Through Tourism

Community Development Through Tourism
Author: Sue Beeton
Publisher: Landlinks Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0643069623

Provides a single reference that integrates community planning, business planning and tourism planning, from a global and Australian perspectives. It's an important text for the many courses that incorporate aspects of community tourism into their business, tourism, social science, and art programs. Beeton from La Trobe.

Tourism, Development and Growth

Tourism, Development and Growth
Author: John J. Pigram
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2005-10-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134721536

Distinguishing between sustainable development and sustainable tourism, the authors examine whether, and in what form, tourism can contribute to sustainable development and growth. Focusing on different types of tourism appropriate to particular situations, the team of leading contributors draws on examples from around the world - Canada, USA, Spain, Belgium, UK, Australia - to explore tourism's contribution to the economic, social, political and environmental advancement of developing countries and the importance of tourism in industrialised nations. This book examines the new policies and initiatives established by both the private sector and the state to pursue sustainable tourism growth and identifies the opportunities and challenges inherent in achieving it.

Tourism and Development

Tourism and Development
Author: Richard Sharpley
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781873150344

This text explores the role of tourism as a potential contibutor to socio-economic development in destination areas. Establishing a link between tourism studies and development studies, it considers what is meant by development, the processes through which development may be achieved and, in particular, a number of fundamental issues related to the use of tourism as a development agent. In so doing, it challenges conventional thinking about the relationship between tourism and development.

Building Community Capacity for Tourism Development

Building Community Capacity for Tourism Development
Author: G. Moscardo
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845934482

A lack of entrepreneurial capacity, limited understanding of tourism markets and a lack of community understanding of tourism and its impacts have been identified as barriers to effective tourism development in peripheral regions. This book provides an analysis of this issue within tourism development practice.

Tourism, Culture and Development

Tourism, Culture and Development
Author: Stroma Cole
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845410696

This book provides a holistic, multi-stakeholder picture of the first twenty years of tourism development in aremote region of Eastern Indonesia. It is a rich description of how tourism is intertwined with life in anon-western, marginal community. Based on anthropological methods, this ethnography is about tourism andsocio-cultural change, tourists, conflict, globalisation, poverty and powerlessness.

Tourism Development

Tourism Development
Author: Heidi Keyser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN: 9780195780536

An introduction to tourism development, covering the South African technikon syllabus and more, intended for students of tourism and related fields in sub-Saharan Africa

The Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management

The Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management
Author: Susan L. Slocum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351031058

The Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainable tourism, crucially combining both theoretical and practical approaches to equip students with the tools to successfully manage a sustainable tourism business or destination. Covering a range of crucial topics such as mass tourism, alternative tourism, human capital management, and many more, this book incorporates a global curriculum that widens the sustainable tourism debate to include theoretical perspectives, applied research, best-practice frameworks, business tools, and case studies, facilitating a more comprehensive sustainable tourism educational strategy. Information on how to effectively implement strategies that can be applied to business environments, entrepreneurship, and job skills to enhance career preparation is at the forefront of this textbook. Highly illustrated and with an interactive companion website including bonus learning materials, this is the ideal textbook for students of tourism, hospitality, and events management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Community Tourism Development

Community Tourism Development
Author: Cynthia Messer
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692848197

Community Tourism Development applies theory to real life-delivering the essentials of planning, development and management of tourist destinations from a community perspective. Based on extensive applied research, this comprehensive manual provides the process and tools for developing local tourism. Community Tourism Development includes worksheets, assessments, real-life examples and case studies.

Sustainable Tourism Development

Sustainable Tourism Development
Author: Anukrati Sharma
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429674783

Exploring the importance of destination branding and destination marketing as well as their implications on sustainability in tourism, this book approaches the topic through the lens of destination image, taking into account the large influence of appearance on tourist attraction. With consideration to various stakeholders in sustainable tourism development, this book incorporates ideas for new techniques in destination branding and marketing in order to maximize economic impact. The book also discusses the rising influence of social media on tourists’ interest. Emphasizing sustainability in tourism development, the chapters address a number of important issues, such as post-disaster tourism marketing, culture and heritage tourism, eco-tourism, community-based nature tourism, community involvement in destination development, benchmarking for destination performance evaluation, sustainable food practices in tourism, and more. Each chapter of this book incorporates a quantifiable trend in tourism development, including various paradigms and studies that relay different statistics about certain areas of tourism. The book makes use of case studies for specific destinations and integrates strategies, evidence, and analyses to offer a holistic understanding of the myriad factors involved in sustainable tourism development.