New Directions in Garden Tourism
New Directions in Garden Tourism

Author: Richard W. Benfield

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1789241766

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Following on from the success of Garden Tourism, this book provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visitation. It delves into new themes and contemporary trends, from art and culture to psychographic profiling of visitors and how social media and semiotics are used to enrich visitor experience and fuel motivation. In addition to these new topics, the book also expands on important areas such as the continued rise of urban gardens, garden events, historic gardens and garden economics.

Garden Tourism
Garden Tourism

Author: Richard Benfield

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1780641958

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Garden visitation has been a tourism motivator for many years and can now be enjoyed in many different forms. Private garden visiting, historical garden tourism, urban gardens, and a myriad of festivals, shows and events all allow the green-fingered enthusiast to appreciate the natural world. This book traces the history of garden visitation and examines tourist motivations to visit gardens. Useful for garden managers and tourism students as well as casual readers, it also examines management and marketing of gardens for tourism purposes, before concluding with a detailed look at the form and tourism-based role of gardens in the future.

New Directions in South African Tourism Geographies
New Directions in South African Tourism Geographies

Author: Jayne M. Rogerson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 3030293777

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This book provides an overview of innovative and new directions being chartered in South African tourism geographies. Within the context of global change the volume explores different facets and different geographies of tourism. Key themes under scrutiny include the sharing economy, the changing accommodation service sector, touring poverty, tourism and innovation, tourism and climate change, threats to sustainability, inclusive tourism and a number of studies which challenge the present-mindedness of much tourism geographical scholarship. The 18 chapters range across urban and rural landscapes in South Africa with sectoral studies which include adventure tourism, coastal tourism, cruise tourism, nature-based tourism, sports tourism and wine tourism. Finally, the volume raises a number of policy and planning issues in the global South in particular relating to sustainability, local economic development and poverty reduction. Outlining the impact of tourism expansion in South Africa and suggesting future research directions, this stimulating book is a valuable resource for geographers as well as researchers and students in the field of tourism studies.

Tourism, Magic and Modernity
Tourism, Magic and Modernity

Author: David Picard

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0857452029

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Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation.

New Directions in Garden Tourism
New Directions in Garden Tourism

Author: Richard Benfield

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781789241778

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"Following on from the success of Garden Tourism, this new book provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visitation. It explores new themes and contemporary trends, from art and culture to psychographic profiling of visitors, and how social media and semiotics are used to enrich visitor experience"--

Tourism in Southeast Asia
Tourism in Southeast Asia

Author: Michael Hitchcock

Publisher: NIAS Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 8776940349

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Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world's most dynamic tourism destinations. The volume takes a close look at many of the challenges facing Southeast Asian tourism at a critical stage of transition and transformation and following a recent series of crises and disasters. Building on and advancing the path-breaking Tourism in South-East Asia, produced by the same editors in 1993, it adopts a multidisciplinary approach and includes contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, presenting a number of fresh perspectives.

Tourism and COVID-19
Tourism and COVID-19

Author: Richard W. Butler

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2024-08-29

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1800626142

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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global tourism industry were unprecedented. International travel fell by 72% in 2020, the worst year on record for tourism. Tourism operations, from family businesses to national tourism organizations all faced potential economic ruin. They had to adapt their business practices and adopt new ways of operating, in order to work around ever-changing restrictions. This book is comprised of chapters and case studies previously published by CABI, that deal with the impacts of, and responses to, the COVID-19 pandemic, along with specially written introductory and concluding chapters that provide context. It provides invaluable snapshots of reactions to the pandemic from individuals and organizations involved in a variety of forms of tourism. Many authors have included postscripts, to record or update their views following the end of the pandemic. Key themes and issues addressed include: anticipation of and preparedness for the pandemic, the scale of the problem, the adjustments made during the pandemic, likely future directions of change and the implications for sustainability. The book is a useful resource for researchers, students and practitioners in tourism, hospitality and related disciplines.

New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies

Author: Paul Smethurst

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1137457252

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This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.

Social Media in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
Social Media in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality

Author: Professor Evangelos Christou

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1409485145

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Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information about tourism suppliers and tourism destinations. Presenting cutting-edge theory, research and case studies investigating Web 2.0 applications and tools that transform the role and behaviour of the new generation of travellers, this book also examines the ways in which tourism organisations reengineer and implement their business models and operations, such as new service development, marketing, networking and knowledge management. Written by an international group of researchers widely known for their expertise in the field of the Internet and tourism, chapters include applications and case studies in various travel, tourism and leisure sectors.

Tourism: New directions and alternative tourism
Tourism: New directions and alternative tourism

Author: Stephen Williams

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780415243766

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This collection of key articles from the most influential journals and books in the field examines what social scientists mean by the term tourism, and what it means to be a tourist. Carefully selected and introduced by the editor, this material charts the sociological changes that have occurred in tourism, and the change from the upper-class grand tours of the late nineteenth-century to the mass tourism of the present day. The collection also assesses the economic impacts of tourism on local economies, environmental considerations, and whether the growth of tourism is sustainable in a post-September 11th world. "Tourism: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences" is an accessible and comprehensive resource designed for academics and scholars researching in tourism, globalization, and human geography.