Böcker av C. Michael Hall

Asia is regarded as the fastest growing area for international and domestic tourism in the world today and over the next 20 years.

This handbook brings together a number of the main themes on the study of walking from different disciplines and literatures into a single volume that can be accessed from across the social sciences. The international and cross-disciplinary nature of the contributions of the book are expected to be of interest to numerous academic fields.

Lakes are some of the world's most popular tourism attractions. However, the sustainable development of lake tourism has become increasingly problematic. This volume brings together the key elements of lake tourism in order to present the urgent need for an integrated approach to lacustrine tourism systems management.

Pro-poor tourism is currently receiving enormous attention from the World Tourism Organization, government, industry and NGOs. This book provides one of the first assessments of the effectiveness of pro-poor tourism as a development strategy and tackles the issue of who benefits from tourism's potential role in poverty reduction.

Now in its second edition, Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, considering issues such as the changing world order, destination marketing, tourism ethics, pro-poor tourism and implications for the patterns and flow of tourism in the future.

This is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the broader resilience literature. The book examines resilience at individual, organisation and destination levels, and with respect to the wider tourism system. It is designed to be an upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate primer on resilience in tourism.

This book offers a comprehensive global examination of the relationship between public transport and tourism. It offers a unique analysis of the transport experience and shows how the public transport system, the tourism industry and the environment all benefit when public transport is widely used by tourists.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and water. It is the first book to thoroughly examine the interrelationships of tourism and water use based on global, regional and business perspectives.

Explores the relationship between tourism and climate change in both Arctic and Antarctic polar regions by considering the associated environmental, economic, social and political factors. This book draws on both Arctic and Antarctic Polar region case studies to help illustrate these climate change issues.

As one of the world's largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, and political impacts. This book offers a synthesis of tourism's role in our contemporary world, both as an agent of change, and as a response to it. It illustrates that well managed tourism can make a positive contribution to destinations.

Looking at contemporary practices and trends in food and wine tourism, this volume presents destination management planning and marketing initiatives that can be easily adapted and applied to a wider range of wine tourism settings.

Contains chapter that includes the following features: 'how to' and 'how not to' case studies based on international examples; a guide to further reading and websites; and 'issues to consider when marketing' section as a means of self-evaluation. It systematically outlines the major issues involved in the production and marketing of wine.

Tthis volume brings together the first contemporary collection of research on tourism in Iran.The chapters engage with a number of crucial issues to provide a benchmark assessment of tourism and its potential future in a troubled political environment.

Tourism is an increasingly important industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) that is integral to economic, social and sustainable development. This book is includes case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resources, concepts and issues.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to wine tourism from a business, social science and policy perspective. This book includes information on the growth and development of wine tourism from both supply, demand, marketing and management perspectives.