Articles

Marine Tourism examines both successful and unsuccessful tourism in coastal and marine environments. The author provides an overview of the history,... 
Tourism | Environmental aspects | Coastal zone management | Marine resources development | Coasts | Tourist trade

Tourism | Investments, Foreign | Malawi Commerce

Tourism

Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be... 
Tourism | Environmental aspects | Moral and ethical aspects | Slums | Tourism Society and Culture | Tourism Geography | Tourism Development/Impacts | Tourism - Moral and ethical aspects | Culture and tourism

"The perceived quality of a destination's cultural offering has long been a significant factor in determining tourist choices of destination. More recently,... 
Heritage tourism | Tourism Geography | Cultural Geography | Tourism Society and Culture | Culture | Tourism Development/Impacts

This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,... 
Tourism | Middle East | Government policy | Middle East Geography | Tourism Geography | Tourism Development/Impacts | Persian Gulf Region

"Just a generation ago the notion that holidays should be invested with ethical and political significance would have sounded odd. Today it is part of the... 
SOCIAL SCIENCE | General | Volunteer tourism | Developing Countries | TRAVEL | Social aspects | Development Studies | Niche Tourism | Tourism Ethics | Sustainable Development | Sustainability | Tourism Development/Impacts | Tourism | Volunteer tourism - Social aspects | TRAVEL / General.-bisacsh | Volunteer tourism-Social aspects | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries.-bisacsh

Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and... 
Volunteer tourism | Tourism Society and Culture | Tourism Geography | Tourism Development/Impacts

This book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is... 
Tourism | Forecasting | Tourism Development | Impacts | Tourism Society and Culture | Tourism - Forecasting

As researchers in emerging economies, scientists are often the first foreign visitors to stay in remote rural areas and, on occasion, form joint venture... 
Tourism | Research | Niche Tourism | Tourism Behaviour | Tourism Geography | Environmental Issues | Development Geography | Tourism Development/Impacts

"Whether through education, sport or festivity, events form the basis on which we attribute cultural meaning, significance and value to our lives. In this... 
Social aspects | Festivals | Planning | Events Planning | Events and the Environment | Sustainability | Tourism Society and Culture | Tourism Development/Impacts | Festivals-Planning | Festivals-Social aspects

In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The... 
Tourism | Environmental aspects | Motion pictures | Future, The, in motion pictures | Social aspects | Tourism in motion pictures | Niche Tourism | Tourism Ethics | Sociology of Culture | Race & Ethnicity | Heritage | Cultural Studies | Film Studies | Popular Culture | Cinema Studies & Popular Cinema | Globalisation | Sociology & Social Policy | Tourism Development/Impacts | Dark tourism

As one of the world's largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts. Although tourism can... 
Tourism | Industry & industrial studies | Tourism Behaviour | Tourism Geography | Tourism Development/Impacts

Dark Tourism, including visitation to places such as murder sites, battlefields and cemeteries is a growing phenomenon, as well as an emergent area of... 
Culture & Development | Tourism Geography | Cultural Heritage | Heritage Management & Conservation | Tourism Society and Culture | Tourism Development/Impacts | Dark tourism - Psychological aspects | Tourism | Place attachment | Geographical perception

"This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental rationalities... 
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General | Economic aspects | Volunteer tourism | POLITICAL SCIENCE / General | Social aspects | Government policy | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties | Industry & industrial studies | Development Studies | International Relations | Tourism Geography | Cultural Geography | Politics & International Relations | Tourism Development/Impacts | Volunteer tourism - Government policy - Developing countries

iFestivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional... 
Festivals | Social aspects | Social participation | Group identity | Events and the Environment | Events Behaviour/Experience | Tourism Society and Culture | Tourism Development/Impacts | Tourism | Sociological aspects

Tourism in China has grown rapidly since the country started implementing its open-door policy in 1978. Tourism development is now an essential agenda item for... 
Tourism | Industry & industrial studies | Tourism Geography | Tourism Development/Impacts | Tourism - China