Developments in Tourism Research

by Airey,David; Airey,David

• ISBN13: 9780080453286
• ISBN10: 0080453287
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Tourism research has come a long way since the first developments in the identification and delineation of a tourism subject area in the mid 1960s. It has moved in interesting new directions, both generated and responded to different challenges and applied itself to novel situations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
A Review of Tourism Research
A Review of Tourism Research	p. 3
Researching Tourism Business
Introduction	p. 17
Are Plastic Cows the Future for Farming? Implications of an Alternative Diversification Model	p. 21
Implementation of Mass Customised Manufacturing in the Flight Catering Industry	p. 33
Tourism in The Gambia - Ten Years On	p. 49
Measuring and Reporting the Impact of Tourism on Poverty	p. 63
Productivity and Yield Measurement in Australian Inbound Tourism Using Tourism Satellite Accounts and General Equilibrium Modelling	p. 77
Assessing Tourism Yield: An Analysis of Public Sector Costs and Benefits	p. 95
Developing a GIS-supported Tourist Flow Model for New Zealand	p. 107
Duelling Definitions: Challenges and Implications of Conflicting International Concepts of Tourism	p. 123
Researching Tourism Experiences and Challenges
Introduction	p. 139
Tourists on Tourists: The Impact of Other People on Destination Experience	p. 143
A Tale of Two Precincts	p. 155
The Socio-Political Implications of Rural Racism and Tourism Experiences	p. 171
Researching the Experiences and Perspectives of Tourism Policy Makers	p. 185
Network Analysis as a Research Tool for Understanding Tourism Destinations	p. 199
Tourism and Regional Competitiveness	p. 217
An Agenda for Tourism Research
An Agenda for Cutting-Edge Research in Tourism	p. 233
Subject Index	p. 247
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