A companion to tourism

A Companion to Tourism......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 19
Part I Introduction......Page 21
1 Tourism: Conceptualizations,  Institutions, and Issues......Page 23
Part II Perspectives on Tourism......Page 43
2 The Measurement of Global Tourism: Old Debates, New Consensus, and Continuing Challenges......Page 45
3 Tourist Flows and the Spatial Distribution of Tourists......Page 56
4 Behavioral Approaches in Tourism Research......Page 69
5 Toward a Political Economy of Tourism......Page 81
6 Cultural Geographies of Tourism......Page 94
7 Tourist Practices and Performances......Page 105
Part III Producing Tourism and Tourism Spaces......Page 117
8 The Cultural Turn? Toward a More Critical Economic Geography of Tourism......Page 119
9 Transnational Corporations, Globalization, and Tourism......Page 130
10 Entrepreneurial Cultures and Small Business Enterprises in Tourism......Page 142
11 Labor Mobility and Market  Structure in Tourism......Page 155
12 Transport and Tourism......Page 166
13 The Tourism Area Life Cycle in the Twenty-First Century......Page 179
Part IV Globalization and Contested Places......Page 191
14 Problematizing Place Promotion......Page 193
15 Tourism, Information Technology, and Development: Revolution or Reinforcement?......Page 204
16 Theming, Tourism, and Fantasy City......Page 215
17 Whose Tourist-Historic City? Localizing the Global and Globalizing the Local......Page 230
18 Urban Tourism: Between the Global and the Local......Page 243
19 Postcolonialism, Colonialism, and Tourism......Page 255
20 Indigenous People and Tourism......Page 266
Part V Tourists, Values, and Practices......Page 279
21 Tourist Motivation and Typologies......Page 281
22 Tourism, Modernity, and Postmodernity......Page 300
23 Cultural Circuits of Tourism: Commodities, Place, and Re-consumption......Page 311
24 Narratives of Being Elsewhere: Tourism and Travel Writing......Page 323
25 Gender and Sexuality in Tourism Research......Page 336
26 The Souvenir: Conceptualizing the Object(s) of Tourist Consumption......Page 347
Part VI Tourism, Place, Space, and Forms......Page 357
27 Tourism and Landscape......Page 359
28 The Beach as a Liminal Space......Page 369
29 Tourism, Shopping, and Retailing: An Axiomatic Relationship?......Page 380
30 Tourism and the Countryside......Page 394
31 Mobility, Tourism, and Second Homes......Page 407
32 Gaming and Tourism: Issues for the New Millennium......Page 419
33 Geographic Perspectives on Event Tourism......Page 430
Part VII Tourism, the Environment, and Society......Page 443
34 Tourism and the Natural Environment......Page 445
35 Tourism and Touristic Representations of Nature......Page 458
36 Environmental Impacts of Tourism......Page 470
37 Tourism and Resource Management......Page 482
38 National Parks: Wilderness and Culture......Page 493
39 Ecotourism: Theory and Practice......Page 504
40 Tourism, Sustainability, and Social Theory......Page 518
41 Tourism and the Elusive Paradigm of Sustainable Development......Page 530
Part VIII Policies, Planning, and Governance......Page 543
42 Tourism and Public Policy......Page 545
43 Partnerships, Participation, and Social Science Research in Tourism Planning......Page 561
44 Local and Regional Tourism Policy and Power......Page 575
45 Tourism Communities and Growth Management......Page 589
46 Political Boundaries and Regional Cooperation in Tourism......Page 604
47 GIS Applications in the Planning and Management of Tourism......Page 616
Part IX Conclusions......Page 629
48 Contemporary Themes and Challenges in Tourism Research......Page 631
Index......Page 639