CAB International, 2011. — 222 p. — ISBN: 1845936604. Tourism has long been associated with improved health, resulting in a boom of spas, yoga and rejuvenation treatments. Medical tourism itself is a more recent example of niche tourism, with increasing numbers of people travelling abroad in search of cosmetic enhancement and solutions to various serious medical conditions...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 290 p. — ISBN: 0415833965, 0415833973. Cultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and cultural and heritage management. The first edition illustrated how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce sustainable cultural tourism. The current edition takes...
Springer, 2014. — 377 p. For centuries people have been attracted by volcanic landscapes. Whether active or dormant, the unique dynamics of volcanic environments have encouraged travellers to visit to the remotest locations. Artists have been inspired to paint volcanoes such as the perfect shape of Mt. Fuji or Mt. Vesuvius erupting. Volcanoes have provided archaeologists with...
2nd ed. — Island Press, 2008. — 568 p. — ISBN: 1597261254, 1597261262, 9781597261265 Around the world, ecotourism has been hailed as a panacea: a way to fund conservation and scientific research, protect fragile ecosystems, benefit communities, promote development in poor countries, instill environmental awareness and a social conscience in the travel industry, satisfy and...
Elsevier. 2008 - 210 p. ISBN: 978-0-7506-8161-2. Olympic Tourism is the first text to focus on the nature of Olympic tourism and the potential for the Olympic Games to generate tourism in the run up to and long after the hosting of a Games. The awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London will see an increasing interest in the phenomena of organising, managing and analysing the...
Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2011. — 280 p. — ISBN: 0203835808, 041580163X, 9780415801638, 9780203835807, 9780415801621 This book provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines the implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for success and...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 806 p. — ISBN10: 113747565X; ISBN13: 978-1137475657 This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism...
(text in Greek language) own work, thesis for the University of Thessaly, Department of Spatial Planning, Urban Planning and Regional Development Engineering thesis, Volos 2024, 109 p. This essay examines the concept of film tourism in different parts of the world and Greece. Furthermore, the impact of the 2008 movie 'Mamma Mia on regional tourism in Thessaly. Finally,...
3rd Ed. — Routledge, 2019. — 181 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138202-04-7. Since the first edition of the title, ecotourism has become a major phenomenon in tourism and society in many countries and regions throughout the world. The profusion of experiences has generated a variety of means of theorizing, analysing and marketing ecotourism, all that have yet to be encompassed in one book....
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