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Since 2017, the term 'overtourism' has become the buzzword for destinations suffering the strain of tourism. It is a critical issue for the 21st Century and beyond, and to date has only been examined from a tourism industry perspective. This book takes a different stand by investigating overtourism from a tourism education perspective.

This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries.

Sustainability is one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector. Recently the role of resilience thinking has been highlighted in sustainable development discussions as an alternative perspective. This book approaches these concepts as interwoven processes and looks at change through a socio-ecological lens.

This timely book is the first to explore the physical and intangible legacies of historic and contemporary dark tourism sites, and the contribution such sites make to place identity. It achieves this by critically reviewing the marketing, management and interpretation of contemporary and historic sites associated with death, disaster, atrocity and related events from a wide range of geographical locations. In doing so the book proposes a compose model for discussing place identity and dark tourism which will provide further understanding about these increasingly popular destinations.

Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, environmental and tourism studies, the chapters in this anthology employ a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism development and impacts on the community and environment. The volume begins by chronicling interdisciplinary perspectives on political ecology of tourism as well as how the subject has been treated in tourism studies to date. It addresses why political ecology has been given so little attention, despite the widespread consideration of the environment and politics in tourism studies. As the chapters in this anthology make clear, political ecologies of tourism are mediated by a range of political, economic and cultural relations of power. As a result of these relations, some ecological concerns are privileged while others are marginalized. This book advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism development and impacts on the community and environment. It offers the reader a critical and empirically grounded understanding of the contemporary relevance of political ecology to address tourism related issues such as power, uneven development, environmentalism, globalization and political economy. This book will be valuable reading for those interested in the intersection of geography, anthropology and tourism studies.

This book examines the role of tourism in Palestine at three main levels.

The first to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, this book combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, with reflexive chapters demonstrating how these techniques can be used.

Explores the relationship between tourism and climate change in both Arctic and Antarctic polar regions by considering the associated environmental, economic, social and political factors. This book draws on both Arctic and Antarctic Polar region case studies to help illustrate these climate change issues.

An in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community and place, showing how community ownership and participation in tourism affect the politics of representation and identity and the nature of the tourist experience.

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. This book invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt.

Explores the origins and multiple meanings of National Parks and their relationship to tourism in a variety of national contexts. Taking a global comparative approach, this book examines how and why national parks have spread and evolved, how they have been fashioned and used, and the integral role of tourism within national parks.

Analyzes the impact and effectiveness of creative strategies in tourism development and charts the emergence of 'creative tourism'. This book demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of creativity as a tourism development strategy and marketing tool.

In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. This title focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, and cultural changes.

Presents research on the capacity of big cities to generate tourism areas as visitors discover and help create urban experiences off the beaten track. This book examines similarities and differences in these processes in a group of established world cities located in global circuits of tourism such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Sydney.

Addresses contentious issues facing consumptive wildlife tourism in the twenty-first century.

This title draws together theoretical and applied research in order to illuminate the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it aims to create a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant.

This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism, and it offers significant insights into how it might reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings in tourism research.

Religion and spirituality are among the most common motivations for travel; major tourism destinations have developed as a result of their connections to sacred people, places and events. This book discusses the subjects that destination planners, religious organizations, scholars, and tourism service providers must deal with on a daily basis.

Considers how leisure and tourism acts as a major focus by which power may be understood in a geographical context. Exploring the intricacies of the relationships between power, tourism and leisure, this volume illustrates the extent to which power impacts on the unfolding structures, practices and organization of tourism and leisure.

Aims to consider the future direction of the study of tourism. This book charts the development of tourism as an area of study, critiques contemporary epistemologies of tourism framed around the social science versus management dichotomy, and offers alternative approaches to the study of tourism.

In recent years, global environmental change has become perceptible in many regions of the world and affects the very foundations of tourism and travel. The first part of the book is devoted to an in-depth study of the effects of global environmental change for tourism in different environments, including polar regions, mountains, lakes/streams, forests, costal zones, deserts, and urban environments. The second part looks at some specific global aspects of environmental change affecting tourism, such as the spread of diseases in changing climates, the availability of water resources, and extreme weather events. It can be assumed that these developments will have concomitant detrimental consequences for the tourist industry as well as for tourists themselves. The third section will thus look at stakeholder perceptions of global environmental change. In particular, the perceptions of tourists, tourist industry and policy makers will be highlighted. Finally, a fourth section will look at adaptation. Contributions will seek to discuss the options of restructuring the tourist industry in a changing world.

Providing the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between global environmental change and tourism, this book integrates social and physical science perspectives to give an in-depth exploration of this topical issue.

This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been characterised by an historical emphasis on promoting both domestic and international tourism to Japanese tourists, followed by the more recent policy of competing aggressively in the international incoming tourist market.

This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. This thought provoking volume contributes to the understanding of the interrelationships between war, peace and tourism in many different parts of the world at different scales. It will be valuable reading for all those interested in this topic as well as dark tourism, battlefield tourism and heritage tourism.

This book for the first time critically reviews tourism debates surrounding the emerging market of scientific and research oriented tourism. Section 1 sets the stage of the discourse of scientific research in tourism; Section 2 evaluates the key players of scientific tourism and Section 3 contains case studies documenting the niche of researchers as travelers in a range of geographical locations. The title¿s multidisciplinary approach raises many issues including the role of science tourism in tourism development and expansion, the impacts of scientific and research-based tourism, travel behaviors and motivations of researchers to name but a few.