Tourism Research: Critiques and Challenges (Routledge Issues in Tourism S.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415083192 ISBN 13: 9780415083195

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 1992

Synopsis

As research in tourism expands at such a rapid rate, the development of concepts and methodologies which underpin the research has often suffered. In order to address the current questions and work through the key debates that challenge tourism researchers, certain criteria need to be laid out and a conceptual framework established to help research progress in rigorous and useful way. This collection offers an up-to-date analysis of research issues in tourism, testing conceptual and methodological issues from a variety of perspectives including sociology, psychology, management and planning. It questions native stereotypes, tourist motivation and policy on both local and global levels, assessing how far tourism is interdisciplinary and identifying patterns for future research and development.

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Review

This book provides a comprehensive resource on tourism research. (and is)...is recommended to researchers, graduate students, and academicians studying any aspect of tourism. In comparison to other books on this topic, Tourism Research: A 20:20 Vision, offers a truly diverse collection of chapters on the perspectives, advances, and emerging themes of tourism research. Annals of Tourism Research (2011)" This book provides a comprehensive resource on tourism research. (and is)...is recommended to researchers, graduate students, and academicians studying any aspect of tourism. In comparison to other books on this topic, Tourism Research: A 20:20 Vision, offers a truly diverse collection of chapters on the perspectives, advances, and emerging themes of tourism research. Annals of Tourism Research (2011)'

About the Author

Professor Douglas Pearce is Professor Tourism Management, Victoria Management School, New Zealand. He has more than thirty years teaching, research and consulting experience in many aspects of tourism. Most recently his work has had a New Zealand focus, notably as leader of the FRST-funded project on tourism distribution channels. Other research interests and consultancy work have frequently taken him to Europe, the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. He is a fellow and former vice-president of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and serves on the editorial boards of a number of tourism journals, including the Annals of Tourism Research. Professor Richard Butler is Professor in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management of University of Strathclyde. He has published widely in tourism journals, and produced eleven books on tourism and many chapters in other books. His main fields of interest are the development process of tourist destinations and the subsequent impacts of tourism, issues of carrying capacity and sustainability, and tourism in remote areas and islands and he is a former president of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. He is currently editor Emeritus of 'The Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415083192
• ISBN 13: 9780415083195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Pearce Douglas G., Butler Richard W.