The concepts of welfare and well-being represent a diffuse and relatively neglected area within tourism studies. This is despite the increasing importance of such issues as ethics, wellness, human rights, ethnocentrism, corporate social responsibility, industry practice and behaviour codes, green consumerism and the perceptions and management of ‘sustainable’ development. Our welfare emphasis – a holistic approach to the characteristics...

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The aim of this book is to examine the holidays of gays and lesbians from, primarily, a marketing perspective. It also examines how marketing activity engages with and affects social issues relating to homosexuality. The primary target audience for this book is postgraduate and secondand third-year undergraduate students on tourism, hospitality, leisure and recreation management courses. Some prior knowledge of marketing and of first-level...

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This book is an addition to CABI’s excellent list of tourism books and it is the third that I have been involved in as editor, the first as sole editor. I have always been fascinated by the sea, perhaps a legacy of my early childhood spent collecting information about the cruise ships of the day (in the late 1950s and early 1960s), which I then kept and catalogued in scrap books. My interest was further enhanced in my teenage years when...

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As I write this, I look out over the blue, wind-ruffled waters of Amethyst Harbour, a sheltered inlet of Lake Superior in North-western Ontario, towards a ring of pine and birch-clad rocky islets. I am living in what is known in this part of Canada as a ‘camp’. This ‘camp’ has been converted from its original seasonal status to year-round habitation. The only sign of others are a few cottages nestled among the trees around the fringes...

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This book challenges readers to consider new ways of thinking about sustainable tourism. The book considers the process ofmoving towards sustainability, the changes necessary, the effects and the complexity of these changes. These new ways of thinking encourage the reader to view tourism as a complex system, intricately connected with ecological and social systems. By recognizing this complexity, the importance for sustainable tourism of...

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The idea for this book developed from a discussion between the editors suggesting that few research books in the tourism field integrate theory with practice and bridge the divide between business research methods and the growing social science perspective. Many tourism courses do not use one sole textbook for tourism research subjects. This is partly because the tourism industry can be viewed in a multi-disciplinary way, with an interest in...

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A successful tourism destination must embrace an integrated approach towards the many components of the tourism system. The role of destination management organizations (DMOs) is vital to providing leadership and coordination for destination stakeholders (Ritchie and Crouch, 2003). Tourism small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have very different approaches to the setting and maintenance of quality standards that are critical to...

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This book is an expanded and updated edition of World Leisure Participation: Free Time in the Global Village, published in 1996 (Cushman, Veal and Zuzanek, 1996). An updated version of the book is justified on a number of grounds. First, since the mid-1990s, worldwide patterns of leisure participation have changed, as have the social, political, economic and cultural influences on leisure. In each of the chapters in the book, updated national...

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The central theme of Improving Tourism and Hospitality Services is rooted in the author’s belief that the main issue for tourism and hospitality managers as the twenty-first century begins should be improving the nature and quality of experiences for the industry’s clients, its staff and others affected by its operations. Although these three groups of people have stakes in the creation and enjoyment of tourism and hospitality services,...

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This book is an attempt to capture the multifaceted nature of tourism in all its wide-ranging experiences and activities, which are often amazing and bizarre. Much tourism revolves around novelty-seeking; and modern technology has made it talismanic for the tourist to seek out the white virginity of the polar regions, to fly into space, and to discover the exoticism of the ‘other’. Tourism today offers a strange world of experiences that...

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Ecotourism is widely recognized as the most rapidly growing sector within the global tourism industry. By definition, ecotourism is travel to minimally impacted natural areas and associated cultural locales. Ecotourists enjoy nature, and cultures that coexist harmoniously with the natural environment; they are conscious of minimizing their impacts on nature and local cultures and aim to improve socio-economics of local populations. Given this...

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The starting point and basic organizing framework for this volume is the oft understated, yet obvious truism, that international tourism is part of a much wider set of social, cultural, economic, political and environmental change agents, and should be viewed within this wider context and not in isolation. As a corollary, it is consequently often difficult to distinguish the impacts of tourism from the influences of other dynamic processes,...

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