Böcker i Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management-serien

Examines the commercial home from an international perspective, focusing on the various forms of commercial accommodation including farmstays, historic houses, and self-catering accommodation. This title helps to explain a range of behaviours and practices, for example the importance of setting and the nature of the host/guest exchange.

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people. This book aims to critically explore how tourism economic development can move closer to a sustainable ideal from a firm Economic analytic anchor.

The aim of this book is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and crises. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism, environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis, highlighting different types of "crises". In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local, national and regional economies from a range of perspectives. Written by leading academics in the field this book offers valuable insight into tourism¿s relationship with socio ¿ cultural, environment, economic and political crisis as well as the challenges facing future tourism development.

Neither the tourism industry nor the tourist has responded convincingly to calls for more responsibility in tourism. Ethical consumption places pressure on travellers to manage a large number of decisions at a time when hedonic motivations threaten to override other priorities. Unsurprisingly, tensions occur and compromises are made. This book offers new insight into the motivations that influence tourists and their decision-making. It explores how consumers navigate the responsible tourism market place and provide a rich understanding of the challenges facing those seeking to encourage travellers to become responsible. Not only will the book provide an improved interpretation of the complexity of ethical consumption in tourism, but it will also offer a variety of stakeholders a deeper understanding of: the key challenges facing stakeholders in the production and consumption of responsible tourism how ethical consumers can be influenced to consume ethically the gaps in consumer knowledge and how to broaden the appeal for individuals to make more informed ethical decisions how tour operators can respond to this emerging market by innovative product development how to design informative marketing communications to encourage a greater uptake for responsible holidays how destinations can tailor their products to the ethical consumer market how destination communities and management organisations can target responsible tourists through the provision of sustainable alternatives to mass-market holiday products. Written by leading academics from all over the world, this timely and important volume will be valuable reading for ubdergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics interested in Tourism Ethics, Ethical Consumption and the global issue of Sustainability.

The Economics of Sustainable Tourism aims to critically explore how tourism economic development can move closer to a sustainable ideal from a firm Economic analytic anchor. Grounded in Economic theory and application it analyses tourist¿s satisfaction and impacts of tourism on the host community, investigates the productivity of the industry and identify factors which could increase economic & sustainable development such as trade relationships. It offers further insight into how destinations sustainability can be measured, economic benefits of a more sustainable destination and sets the agenda for future research. The book includes range of theoretical and empirical perspectives and includes cutting edge research from international scholars.This significant volume provides a new perspective on the sustainable tourism debate and will be a valuable read for students, researcher, academics of Tourism and Economics.

The aim of this book is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and crises. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism, environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis, highlighting different types of "crises". In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local, national and regional economies from a range of perspectives. Written by leading academics in the field this book offers valuable insight into tourism¿s relationship with socio ¿ cultural, environment, economic and political crisis as well as the challenges facing future tourism development.