Tourism Geography: A New Synthesis (Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Plates......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
Boxed Case Studies......Page 14
Preface to second edition......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
1 Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism......Page 22
Part I Tourism development and spatial change......Page 44
2 Tourism places and the place of tourism: resort development and the popularisation of tourism......Page 46
3 From Camber Sands to Waikiki: the expanding horizons of international tourism......Page 70
Part II Tourism relations......Page 98
4 Costs and benefits: the physical and economic development of tourism......Page 100
5 Tourism, sustainability and environmental change......Page 128
6 Socio-cultural relations in tourism......Page 153
7 Strategies for development: the role of planning in tourism......Page 176
Part III Understanding the spaces of tourism......Page 200
8 Inventing places: cultural constructions and tourism geographies......Page 202
9 Urban tourism in a changing world......Page 227
10 The past as a foreign country: heritage attractions in contemporary tourism......Page 255
11 Tourism, consumption and identity......Page 277
Appendix: a guide to the use of the Internet in tourism geography......Page 297
Glossary......Page 300
Bibliography......Page 303
Index......Page 323