Global tourism william f theobald pdf

Search for a digital library with this title Search by city, ZIP code, or library name Learn more about precise location detection. View more libraries Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That is why, as Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, I am pleased to see the serious analysis of the problems and prospects of the tourism sector as presented in this third edition.

Contributors provide interdisciplinary, international perspectives on the critical questions, problems, and opportunities facing the tourism industry. Invaluable to academics and professionals alike, Global Tourism offers a comprehensive exploration of the key issues in tourism. Authors draw on their individual insights to assess and critique contemporary tourism and take a view of the future.

Chesworth Mount St. This compilation unites the highlights of the convention in articles prepared by renowned professionals and scientists from the industry. Readers may benefit from this comprehensive vision of the developments that are shaping the structure of the global tourism industry today and in the future. This book is indispensable for tourism and travel professionals as well as for academics and students anal- ing current global tourism and travel trends. Author : William F.

Contributors provide interdisciplinary, international perspectives on the critical questions, problems, and opportunities facing the tourism industry. Invaluable to academics and professionals alike, Global Tourism offers a comprehensive exploration of the key issues in tourism. Authors draw on their individual insights to assess and critique contemporary tourism and take a view of the future. Author : Sarah M. Author : Alan A. Lew,Joseph M. Despite the devastation caused by COVID, authors argue that within the ongoing crisis, there is also an opportunity to positively transform the tourism sector in ways that contribute to a more hopeful future for tourism practitioners, tourists and host communities.

Rather, the volume shares a vision of global transformation that is driven at least in part by the changing ways people in the post-COVID era may travel and encounter each other and their environments. Individual chapters explore topics such as: regenerative economies, transformational travel, critical perspectives on pandemics and tourism, sustainable development and resilience post-COVID, re-discovering and re-localising tourism, global im mobilities, transforming tourism management, as well as new value systems for travel and tourism including the chance to strengthen social equity and social justice as tourism returns after COVID In this edited volume, a series of senior and emerging scholars engage with debates on how to best contribute to more substantial, meaningful, and positive planetary shifts within the tourism industry.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies. Help My Account My Lists. Catalogue Global tourism. Global tourism Theobald, William F. Published Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c [i. Available at Internet and London Library.

Barcode Shelfmark Loan type Status Statement of responsibility : edited by William F. Copyright : ISBN : , , , Physical Description : xxvi, p.