Tourism or travel for pleasure results from a spreading of prosperity that is relatively recent in the history of mankind. Early travellers crossed oceans and continents to seek wealth, to colonize new lands, to exploit human populations and resources, or to right real or imagined wrongs. Travel for its own sake, to satisfy curiosity or to learn, required surplus wealth, time and motivation, and was rare before the 18th century. Among the...

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This book sets out to achieve three basic aims. In the first place it deals with defining and explaining the development and characteristics of the theme park industry on a global level and, from this point of view, offers the elements necessary for the understanding of their nature and functioning as spaces for entertainment with specific meanings. It is, above all, an explanatory book, containing real data as to the characteristics, the...

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Today's tourism represents an indisputable social and economic component of most societies. Its growth was impressive during the second part of the 20th century and all indicates that it will steadily continue in the future, as developing countries achieve better standards of living. Yet, more important than this growth has been the diversification of destinations that has taken place during the last 30 years or so, both in geographical terms...

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Let me begin, on behalf of the entire PATA family, by expressing our sympathies to the families and friends of people who perished on 26 December 2004. Many of them were tourism industry colleagues or tourists. Since that fateful day, we have seen an outpouring of humanitarian compassion around the world. The unprecedented global fundraising response indicates how the plight of the victims and survivors emotionally impacted all of us...

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Cultural landscapes are today a resource whose preservation represents a most modern theme, relevant to a great number of sectors such as planning, cultural heritage preservation, rural development, nature conservation and forestry, to cite just a few. The role of the landscape and therefore its perception has changed through time; it is no longer just a ‘cultural’ aspect, intended as an elitist phenomenon, isolated from the...

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Adventure tourism has grown rapidly in recent years as outdoor recreation has become increasingly commercialized (Buckley, 2000, 2004a; Travel Industry Association of America, 2005). To date, however, the actual commercial products offered by adventure tourism operators do not seem to have been subject to any coherent and comprehensive review and analysis. This book is a first attempt at such an approach. Other sectors of the tourism industry...

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Associate Professor Ian Patterson is the head of the sport and leisure area within the School of Tourism and Leisure Management at the University of Queensland. He delivers courses in leisure, recreation and sport management and is currently the principal supervisor of six PhD students and associate supervisor of three other PhD students. Between 2001 and 2004, he was research director of the school. He completed his PhD at the University of...

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This is the first research-based book on wine tourism and, as such, makes a significant contribution to wine tourism research, management and marketing. Considering the emergence of wine tourism globally, and the consequent growth of academic and practitioner interest in this topic area, it is a timely publication. All of the contributed chapters in this book (apart from Chapters 1 and 20) have been double-blind reviewed prior to publication....

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Managing Tourism and Hospitality Services is the result of extended discussions between the three editors about their own research interests, and between them and colleagues in many countries about activities they have been engaged in. It became apparent that there are some important convergences in tourism and hospitality research, particularly as it relates to the study of service management in these still new and still rapidly developing...

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This volume addresses some new developments in approaches towards tourism analysis that focus on the interface between the production and consumption of tourist space, the narratives that are created around specific sites and specific forms of tourist activity, and the ways in which these are created, picked up, modified and incorporated into the narratives of self-hood that we all weave around our lives and the identities of the places in...

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Ecotourism has lately been conceptualized as tourism that is environmentally and socially benign, contributing both to local economies and the conservation of protected areas, while educating the traveller about local nature and culture (e.g. Fennell, 1999; Honey, 1999; Weaver, 2002; Cater, 2004). Definitions such as the one used by the International Ecotourism Society – ‘responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment...

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This book had its genesis in the author’s previous employment (1981–1984) as a park ranger at Uluru-Katatjuta National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia. This involved working with Anangu Aboriginal people on cultural interpretation and land management issues. Uluru (Ayers Rock) is a major tourism icon and culturally significant area, handed back to Anangu Aboriginal people in 1985. Starting at Uluru, this interest in...

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