Research Themes for Tourism

2015 | Business & Finance

The study of tourism is often divided into subsets ranging from community tourism and rural tourism to ecotourism and events tourism. This comprehensive text, in paperback for the first time, aims to provide the reader with an introduction and overview of a varied range of classic and contemporary themes. The initial chapters offer a broad introduction and background to the major topics and themes covered by undergraduate courses. In further chapters the authors carefully demonstrate the wide array of tourism topics, based upon contemporary research, and provide insight into a number of new and emerging fields, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) tourism, dark tourism and film tourism. Illustrated with case studies, international examples and debate, Research Themes for Tourism gives undergraduate students the opportunity to become familiar with the ever expanding range of tourism topics, such as urban tourism, festivals, events, heritage and cultural tourism, thus enabling them to make informed decisions about their future studies and career.

Peter Robinson (Author)