Tourism: Principles and Practice

In a changing and turbulent environment for tourism, Tourism - Principles and Practice offers the reader the fundamental and underlying principles with which to approach the study of tourism, contributing a complete framework that effectively integrates theory and practice. The text has been updated to take into account developments such as growing concern for climate change and the maturing response of tourism to the safety and security of tourists.

"Tourism: Principles and Practice is an introductory level book on tourism that gathers all relevant aspects on contemporary tourism. The new Chapter 10, Tourism under Crises, exemplifies the text's broad view of tourism. The case studies presented are elucidative on the types and characteristics of the crises faced in contemporary world and the policy implications of it are clear derived. Therefore this book will have a great impact on future of tourism teaching."

Carlos Barros, Department of Economics, TechnicalUniversity of Lisbon

"While there are many student textbooks that attempt to introduce the fundamental principles, practices and theories of tourism, there is none that does it as comprehensively as this one. The extensively revised fourth edition of this popular, user-friendly and hugely informative book uses a wide spread of case study material to illustrate key issues and practices in the tourism industry in a lively and thorough way. I highly recommend it."

Konstantinos Andriotis, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

"Tourism: Principles and Practice is certainly one of the most comprehensive introductory texts to tourism. It brings together leading scholars from different disciplines and integrates knowledge from an array of academic fields such as economics, geography and marketing. This new edition also addresses timely issues, for example, the linkages between tourism and climate change. The new case studies from all over the world make manifest the book's position as contemporary classic among tourism textbooks."
Dieter K. M¨¹ller, Professor, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Ume¦~ University, Sweden

"This new edition of Tourism: Principles and Practice provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of tourism, both from a demand and supply perspective. It not only refers to contemporary tourism research but is also an excellent text-book in both under- and post-graduate student programmes."

Peter Fredman, Professor of Nature Tourism, Mid-Sweden University and the European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR)

A companion website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/cooper provides media-rich learning resources to enhance your understanding, including an interactive e-book of animated exercises, Financial Times articles, and quick tests to help you revise chapter-by-chapter. New and exclusive video case studies from UK and international destinations bring the world's largest industry into focus.

Chris Cooper is Director of the Christel DeHaan Tourism & Travel Research Institute at Nottingham University Business School, UK.

John Fletcher is Head of the International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research at the University of Bournemouth, UK.

Stephen Wanhill is Special Professor at the Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute, Nottingham University Business School, UK.

Alan Fyall is Reader in Tourism Management at the International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research, University of Bournemouth, UK.

David Gilbert is Professor of Marketing at Surrey University, UK.