"This book provides you with a variety of case studies based on the geography of travel and tourism. The book is designed to be used as a a companion volume with the core text - Worldwide destinations : the geography of travel and tourism (4th edition, 2005)."-- Introduction.

"This book aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the theories and principles of service quality within the context of leisure and tourism. It examines the characteristics of service delivery and their implications for the management of service quality in the leisure and tourism industry. Suitable for students, researchers and leisure and tourism professionals, it relates the nature of the consumer experience to the planning, design and management of service delivery and critically evaluates the various quality management methods, systems, techniques and approaches that can be applied to the leisure and tourism business environment."--BOOK JACKET.

"Well-reasoned and succinct analysis of the development and nature of adventure tourism accompanies these studies, ensuring that Adventure Tourism: the new frontier is ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism, and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises."--BOOK JACKET.

Àrgued with a real verve, it makes a plea to rethink the role of tourism in modernity seeing it not as a fleeting and marginal element, but as something enduring, emblematic and constitutive of contemporary society. Tourism is seen as a key element of modern life, not an escape from it' - Mike Crang, Department of Geography, University of Durham. Tourism is a rapidly growing area of student enrolment. Lecturers and students who have waited patiently for an up-to-date, lucid and indispensable teaching and research text, need wait no more. This book is a matchless guide to understanding the the.

Tourism is booming worldwide -- it makes up a massive part of the global economy. Donald G., Reid's book focuses on tourism in developing and less-developed countries. He examines its social and environmental impact and offers a timely critical analysis of the part it plays in globalization. Many of the world's poorest countries rely on the tourist trade for the major part of their income. However, all too often, the local communities involved do not reap the benefits of this trade. Developers often exclude local communities from the initial planning and decision-making process, viewing them either as a benign resource to be exploited, or as an impediment. Reid presents a rigourous critique of corporate-led tourism development and lays out alternatives that would give planning and control to the local communities involved. He argues that only in this way can the vastly differing requirments of each community be addressed, and social and environmental issues can be dealt with properly. The book includes a discussion of macro planning theory, and offers three case studies of locally controlled projects that show clearly how communities developing a tourist trade can benefit from it.