ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends.
Organised into four parts, the handbook begins with an introductory section that explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored, including sustainable urban tourism, overtourism and urbanisation, the impact of terrorism, visitor–host interactions, as well as reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In Part II the marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities are considered, exploring topics such as destination marketing and branding, business travellers and exhibition hosting. This section combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology developments for tourism cities, examining their supply and impact on different travellers, from open-air markets to creative waterfronts, from social media to smart cities. The final Part offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist tourism, including geology and ecology-based tourism, socialist heritage and post-communist destination tourism.
This handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners, as well as examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of urban tourism and tourism cities. The handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in urban tourism, heritage studies, human geography, urban studies and urban planning, sociology, psychology and business studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|116 pages
Contemporary issues, challenges and trends in urban tourism
part II|145 pages
Marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities
chapter 12|20 pages
How Credible is Vancouver’s New Destination Brand?
part III|144 pages
Product and technology developments for tourism cities
chapter 23|13 pages
The Transition of a Coastal Industrial City into a World-Class Tourism and Maritime City
chapter 24|15 pages
Smart Urban Tourism Destinations at a Crossroads
chapter 27|10 pages
Transport in Tourism Cities
chapter 28|11 pages
The Artistic Medium of Walking
part IV|165 pages
Worldwide tourism cities and urban tourism