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Tourism is often described as a contemporary social phenomenon, and as such the relationship between tourism and society is complex and mediated by many variables. The purpose of this book is to explore the concept of generational cohorts and its implications for tourism. In particular, this book focuses on a generational cohort variously referred to as Generation Y, the Y Generation, the Net or Web Generation, the Millennials, Nexters,...
182 p dtu 26/09/2012 226 4
Từ khóa: Tourism and generation Y, contemporary social, tourism society, tourism literature, social values, kinh tế du lịch, xã hội du lịch
Journeys of discovery in volunteer tourism international case study perspectives
A central question that led us to develop this volume of international case studies asks whether volunteer tourism is an example of a niche product in the broader arena of tourism or whether it is an alternative social phenomenon that challenges the commodity-intensive underpinnings of tourism. In seeking answers to this question we realized that volunteer tourism manifests in diverse ways and a rigorous understanding of it requires casting...
233 p dtu 26/09/2012 208 5
Từ khóa: tourism international, volunteer tourism, political international, tourism research, tình nguyện viên du lịch, kinh tế xã hội
Tourism and protected areas: benefits beyond boundaries
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...
373 p dtu 25/09/2012 173 2
Từ khóa: social economi, international tourist, nature-based tourism, Tourism and protected areas: benefits beyond boundaries, kinh tế xã hội, du lịch sinh thái
Mornitorning for a sustainable tourism transition the challenge of developing and using indicators
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...
356 p dtu 24/09/2012 198 4
Từ khóa: sustainable tourism, social systems, tourism literature, kiến thức xã hội, kinh tế du lịch, du lịch tương tác
Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism
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...
402 p dtu 24/09/2012 220 3
Từ khóa: Environmental impacts of ecotourism, global tourism, natural environment, du lịch sinh thái, môi trường tư nhiên, kinh tế xã hội
Volunteering as leisure/ leisure as volunteering an international assessment
According to Jeremy Rifkin (1995), Aronowitz and DiFazio (1994) and others, the industrialized world has now entered the early years of the Information Age. Here it is gripped by dramatic declines in employment and public-sector service paralleled by a concomitant rise in the third sector as well as personal and collective dependency on the volunteers comprising it. Moreover, the twin ideas that work is inherently good and that, when it can be...
261 p dtu 22/09/2012 183 3
Từ khóa: tình nguyện du lịch, kinh tế du lịch, du lịch xã hội, world leisure, volunteering leisure, du lịch sinh thái, xã hội du lịch
Destination benchmarking concepts, practices and operations
The review of past benchmarking literature shows that there are a substantial number of both conceptual and empirical attempts to formulate a benchmarking approach, particularly in the manufacturing industry. However, there has been limited investigation and application of benchmarking in tourism businesses and particularly in tourist destinations. The purpose of this book is to evaluate approaches to benchmarking and their application within...
234 p dtu 22/09/2012 199 5
Từ khóa: kinh tế du lịch, du lịch sinh tháiDestination benchmarking concepts practices and operations, tourism businesses, tourist destinations, tourism industry, du lịch xã hội