ABSTRACT
Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three crucial areas of tourism - impacts, planning and management.
Tourism impacts are multi-faceted and therefore are difficult to plan for and manage. This title looks at all the key players involved - be they tourists, host communities or industry members - and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism impacts successfully.
Now in a third edition, this bestselling text has been fully revised to include:
- New material on: terrorism, sustainability, climate change, sex tourism, heritage tourism, theories of tourism planning and GIS.
- New chapter on Destination Planning and Management
- Updated tourism data and statistics
- Case studies on urban tourism, pro-poor tourism, cruise ship tourism, coral reef tourism, historic monuments, eco-labels, codes of conduct and sustainable tourism from both developed and developing regions, including Australia, Iceland, Spain, the UK, Namibia, the Arctic and Antarctica.
- A companion website including PPTs, video and web links.
The text is written in an accessible style and includes a plethora of features that engage and aid understanding. This accessible yet academically rigorous introduction to tourism impacts, planning and management is essential reading for all tourism students.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part |65 pages
Tourism growth, development and impacts
chapter |16 pages
Social change and the growth of tourism
chapter |10 pages
Theoretical perspectives on tourism development
chapter |7 pages
An introduction to tourism impacts
chapter |9 pages
The economic impacts of tourism
chapter |10 pages
The socio-cultural impacts of tourism
chapter |11 pages
Environmental impacts of tourism
part |112 pages
Tourism planning and management: concepts, issues and players
chapter |18 pages
Tourism planning and management: concepts and issues
chapter |17 pages
The key players in tourism planning and management
chapter |14 pages
Visitor management
chapter |14 pages
Managing the natural resources for tourism
chapter |9 pages
Tourism planning and management and the host community
chapter |11 pages
Tourism planning and management and the tourism industry
chapter |11 pages
Partnerships and collaboration in tourism
chapter |15 pages
Destination management
part |31 pages
Tools and techniques in tourism planning and management
chapter |12 pages
Education as a technique in tourism planning and management
chapter |10 pages
Self-regulation as a technique in tourism planning and management
chapter |7 pages
Information technology and tourism planning and management
part |27 pages
The future of tourism planning and management