TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aramberri,Julio
AU  - Brothers,Gene
AU  - Buckley,Ralf
AU  - Butler,Richard
AU  - Coghlan,Alexandra
AU  - Cohen,Erik
AU  - Cooper,Chris
AU  - Dann,Graham
AU  - Dunn,David
AU  - Grabowski,Simone
AU  - Guttentag,Daniel
AU  - Hall,C.Michael
AU  - Hannam,Kevin
AU  - Harrison,David
AU  - Jenkins,Carson L.
AU  - Knox,Dan
AU  - Lyons,Kevin D.
AU  - Macbeth,Jim
AU  - Margry,Peter Jan
AU  - McArthur,Simon
AU  - McCabe,Scott
AU  - McCool,Stephen
AU  - McKercher,Bob
AU  - Moscardo,Gianna
AU  - Ruhanen,Lisa
AU  - Salazar,Noel B.
AU  - Scott,Noel
AU  - Sharpley,Richard
AU  - Singh,Sagar
AU  - Singh,Tej Vir
AU  - Small,Jennie
AU  - Smith,Peter
AU  - Swarbrooke,John
AU  - Uriely,Natan
AU  - Wall,Geoffrey
AU  - Wearing,Stephen L.
AU  - Weaver,David
AU  - Wheeller,Brian
TI  - Challenges in Tourism Research
T2  - Aspects of Tourism
SN  - 9781845415334
AV  - G155.A1 C437 2015
U1  - 910.72 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Bristol, UK, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : 
PB  - Channel View Publications, 
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Research
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - GEOGRAPHY
KW  - Tourism industry
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Carrying capacity
KW  - Elenctic approach
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Sustainable tourism
KW  - Tourism debates
KW  - Tourism development
KW  - Tourism knowledge
KW  - Tourism management
KW  - Tourism research
KW  - Tourism studies
KW  - Tourist identities
KW  - Traveller-tourist dichotomy
KW  - Volunteer tourism
KW  - Vulnerability
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Foreword --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1 I Am a Traveller, You Are a Visitor, They Are Tourists But Who Are Post-Tourists? --; 2 Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure? --; 3 Do Tourists Travel for the Discovery of 'Self' or to Search for the 'Other'? --; 4 Is Volunteerism a New Avatar of Travelism? --; 5 Tourism's Invulnerability: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics --; 6 Vanishing Peripheries: Does Tourism Consume Places? --; 7 Tourism is More Sinned Against than Sinning --; 8 Is the Concept of Sustainability Utopian? Ideally Perfect but Hard to Practice --; 9 What is Wrong with the Concept of Carrying Capacity? --; 10 Knowledge Management in Tourism: Are the Stakeholders Research-Averse? --; 11 Tourism for Whom: The Unmet Challenge --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the 'tourist', the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer tourism and the vulnerability of tourism. Bringing together the collective wisdom of 37 renowned tourism scholars in a unique format, this is an important text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, tourism researchers and industry professionals
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845415341
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