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9780415335614

The Geography of Tourism and Recreation: Environment, Place and Space

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    9780415335614

  • ISBN10:

    0415335612

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2006-01-20
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The fully updated third edition of this highly successful and acclaimed text continues to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the key issues associated with the area of tourism, leisure and recreation. It provides a cohesive overview of the landmark studies that exist within tourism, leisure and recreation at a time of rapid growth in the subject area. The book offers the reader a series of chapters which not only explain how important tourism and leisure are in modern society, but outline the key contributions made by geographers in the global growth of tourism and leisure research.

Author Biography

Stephen J. Page is Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley Chair in Tourism, Department of Marketing, University of Stirling, Scotland.

Table of Contents

List of plates
xi
List of figures
xv
List of tables
xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction: Tourism Matters!
1(32)
Tourism, Recreation, Leisure and Mobility
3(4)
The Issue of Scale: Empiricism, Paradigms and Transformations
7(1)
Development of the Geography of Tourism and Recreation
8(3)
Status of the Geography of Tourism and Recreation
11(1)
Knowledge
12(8)
Action: Development of an Applied Geography of Tourism and Recreation
20(4)
Culture
24(4)
Insight: The Geography of Tourism and Recreation Outside the Anglo-American Tradition
28(2)
Transforming the Geography of Tourism and Recreation
30(2)
Questions
32(1)
Reading
32(1)
The Demand for Recreation and Tourism
33(59)
Geographers and Demand: Historical Perspectives
33(2)
Recreational Demand
35(6)
Barriers to Recreation
41(2)
Seasonality
43(1)
Financial Resources and Access to Recreational Opportunity
44(1)
Gender and Social Constraints
45(1)
The Geography of Fear in Recreation and Leisure Spaces: Gender-based Barriers to Participation
46(1)
Case Study: The Geography of Fear and Recreational Participation Implications for Exclusion
47(3)
The Geography of Fear and Urban Park Use in Leicester
48(2)
Summary Points
50(1)
Social Exclusion: Conditioning Leisure Participation
50(2)
Resources and Fashions
52(1)
Walking as a Leisure Pursuit: A Function of Resources and Fashion
53(1)
Case Study: Myles Dunphy and the Australian Bushwalking Movement
54(3)
Measuring Recreational Demand
57(1)
Problems and Methods of Measuring Recreational Demand
57(1)
Time Budget Survey Techniques
58(3)
National Evaluations of Recreational Demand: International Perspectives
61(3)
Regional Demand for Leisure and Recreation in London
64(1)
Spatial Analysis of Demand at the Micro Level: Site Surveys
65(2)
Tourism Demand
67(1)
What is Tourism Demand?
68(1)
Tourist Motivation
68(2)
Maslow's Hierarchy Model and Tourist Motivation
70(3)
Measurement of Tourism Demand: Tourism Statistics
73(2)
Defining Tourism
75(1)
Technical Definitions of Tourism
76(3)
Domestic Tourism Statistics
79(2)
International Tourism Statistics
81(1)
Methodological Issues
82(2)
Patterns of Tourism: International Perspectives
84(1)
Patterns of Global Tourism
84(2)
Patterns of Domestic Tourism
86(1)
New Zealand Domestic Tourism Survey
87(2)
Conclusions
89(1)
Questions
90(1)
Reading
90(2)
The Supply of Recreation and Tourism
92(52)
The Supply Factor in Recreation
92(1)
How has the Geographer Approached the Analysis of Recreational Supply Issues?
93(2)
Insight: Local Authority Expenditure on Leisure and Recreation Provision -- Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
95(2)
Descriptive Research on Location and Travel
97(2)
Explanatory Research on Location and Travel
99(1)
Predictive Research on Location
100(1)
Normative Research on Location
101(1)
Supply and Demand in Recreational Contexts: Spatial Interactions
102(3)
The Green Belt Concept
105(1)
Insight: Country Parks as a Spatial Recreational Tool: Intercepting Urban Recreationalists Seeking the Countryside
106(3)
Multiple Use of Recreational Resources
109(1)
The Supply of Tourism
109(3)
Insight: The Destination Life Cycle
112(2)
Towards a Critical Geography of Tourism Production
114(4)
Insight: Economic Globalisation
118(2)
International Hotel Chains
120(3)
The Leisure Product
123(1)
Role of the Public and Private Sector in Tourism Supply
123(4)
Spatial Analytical Approaches to the Supply of Tourism Facilities
127(5)
Tourist Facilities
132(5)
Insight: Towards Geographical Analyses of Hospitality: Research Agendas
137(5)
Conclusion
142(1)
Questions
142(1)
Reading
143(1)
The Impacts of Tourism and Recreation
144(28)
Impacts: Recreation Resource Management
144(3)
Carrying Capacity
147(3)
Insight: The Recreation Opportunity Spectrum
150(1)
The Limits of Acceptable Change
150(1)
Insight: The Tourism Optimisation Management Model (TOMM)
151(3)
Economic Analysis
154(4)
Insight: The Economic Impact of Events
158(1)
Analysis of Tourism's Social Impacts
159(4)
Insight: Trafficking, Sex Tourism and Slavery
163(2)
Physical Environmental Impacts
165(5)
Conclusion
170(1)
Questions
170(1)
Reading
171(1)
Urban Recreation and Tourism
172(51)
Insight: Stanley Park, Vancouver
173(1)
Geographical Approaches to Urban Recreation
174(1)
Evolution of Urban Recreation in Britain
174(1)
Urban Recreation: A Socio-geographic Perspective
175(2)
The 1800s
177(1)
The 1840s
177(1)
The 1880s
178(1)
The 1920s
178(1)
The 1960s and Beyond
178(2)
Case Study: The Evolution of Parks and Open Space in Victorian Leicester
180(5)
Park Development in Victorian Leicester
181(1)
Post-Victorian Park Development
181(4)
Summary Points
185(1)
Methods of Analysing Urban Recreation
185(3)
Urban Recreational Planning
188(1)
Open Space Planning: Spatial Principles
189(3)
Case Study: The Management, Planning and Provision of Parks and Open Space in the London Borough of Newham
192(4)
Urban Park and Open Space Provision in London
193(1)
The London Borough of Newham
194(2)
Summary Points
196(1)
Urban Tourism
196(1)
Understanding the Neglect of Urban Tourism by Researchers
197(1)
Approaches to Urban Tourism: Geographical Analysis
198(3)
The Tourist Experience of Urban Tourism
201(2)
Insight: Tourism in Capital Cities
203(2)
The Urban Tourism Market: Data Sources
205(1)
Urban Tourism: Behavioural Issues
206(2)
Tourist Perception and Cognition of the Urban Environment
208(4)
Tourism Cognitive Mapping
212(1)
Insight: The Value of Urban Heritage Resources
213(3)
Service Quality Issues in Urban Tourism
216(1)
Significance of Urban Tourism
217(4)
Conclusion
221(1)
Questions
221(1)
Reading
222(1)
Rural Recreation and Tourism
223(30)
In Pursuit of the Concept of `Rural'
224(2)
Conceptualising the Rural Recreation--Tourism Dichotomy
226(1)
The Geographer's Contribution to Theoretical Debate in Rural Contexts
227(3)
Towards a Concept of Rural Tourism
230(1)
What Makes Rural Tourism Distinctive?
230(2)
Rural Recreation and Tourism in Historical Perspective
232(1)
The Geographer's Approach to Rural Recreation and Tourism
233(1)
Studies of Demand
233(3)
Supply of Rural Recreation
236(1)
Impact of Rural Recreation
237(1)
Insight: Second Homes in the Countryside
238(3)
Rural Tourism: Spatial Analytical Approaches
241(1)
Impact of Rural Tourism
241(1)
Economic Impact
242(2)
Environmental Effects of Rural Tourism
244(1)
Insight: Wine, Food and Tourism
244(6)
Recreation, Tourism and Sustainability
250(1)
Conclusion
251(1)
Questions
252(1)
Reading
252(1)
Tourism and Recreation in the Pleasure Periphery: Wilderness and National Parks
253(38)
The Changing Meaning of Wilderness in Western Society
253(8)
Insight: What is the effect of World Heritage listing?
261(1)
Environmental History of National Parks and Wilderness Areas
262(1)
The Value of Wilderness
263(4)
Insight: National Parks and Indigenous Peoples
267(2)
Identifying Wilderness
269(1)
Case Study: Wilderness Inventory in Australia
269(9)
Wilderness Inventories
270(7)
From Identification to Preservation
277(1)
Summary Points
278(1)
Tourist and Recreational Demand for Wilderness, National Parks and Natural Areas
278(6)
Supplying the Wilderness and Outdoor Recreation Experience
284(4)
Insight: Peripheral Areas, Wilderness and Global Environmental Change
288(2)
Conclusion
290(1)
Questions
290(1)
Reading
290(1)
Coastal and Marine Recreation and Tourism
291(24)
Coastline as a Recreation and Tourist Resource: Its Discovery and Recognition as a Leisure Resource
292(4)
The Geographer's Contribution to the Analysis of Coastal Recreation and Tourism
296(2)
Historical Analysis of Recreation and Tourism in the Coastal Zone
298(1)
Insight: Promotion of the Seaside Resort: Place-Promotion Strategies
298(2)
Models of Coastal Recreation and Tourism
300(2)
Tourist and Recreational Travel to the Coast
302(1)
Tourist and Recreational Behaviour: Use and Activity Patterns in Coastal Environments
303(4)
Environmental Perspectives on Coastal Recreation and Tourism
307(2)
Integrated Coastal Zone Management
309(2)
Insight: Cruise Tourism
311(1)
Conclusion
312(2)
Questions
314(1)
Reading
314(1)
Tourism and Recreation Planning and Policy
315(28)
Recreation Planning Policy
315(1)
The Evolution of Leisure and Recreation Planning
315(2)
Recreation Planning: The Concern with Space and Place
317(3)
Tourism Planning and Policy
320(1)
What is Tourism Planning?
321(2)
Approaches to Tourism Planning
323(4)
Co-operative and Integrated Control Systems
327(1)
Insight: The Changing Role of Government and Sustainability
328(2)
Development of Industry Co-ordination Mechanisms
330(1)
Raising Consumer Awareness
331(1)
Raising Producer Awareness
331(1)
Insight: International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO)
332(1)
Strategic Planning to Supersede Conventional Approaches
332(2)
Insight: Singapore: Tourism 21
334(1)
Tourism Policy
335(4)
Conclusion
339(2)
Questions
341(1)
Reading
342(1)
The Future
343(16)
Geography -- The Discipline: Direction and Progress
344(1)
Revisiting Applied Geography
345(3)
Contributions
348(2)
The Role of GIS and Tourism: A Tool for Applied Geographic Research
350(2)
The Role of the Geographer in the New Millennium: Whither Tourism and Recreation?
352(3)
Insight: The Future -- The Ageing Population
355(1)
Transformations?
356(1)
Questions
357(1)
Reading
358(1)
Bibliography 359(65)
Index 424

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