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Challenges in Tourism Research / ed. by Tej Vir Singh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aspects of Tourism ; 70Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845415334
  • 9781845415341
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.72 23
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 C437 2015
  • G155.A1 C437 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)