Tourism: An Introduction - Softcover

Youell, Ray

 
9780582356979: Tourism: An Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0582356970 ISBN 13: 9780582356979
Verlag: Longman, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This book is designed to provide a comprehensive and uptodate introduction to tourism, `the world's biggest industry'. It is an ideal text for all those requiring a concise and thorough insight into the subject from international, Uk and European perspectives. The author's experience of the tourism industry in the Uk and overseas, as a consultant, researcher and lecturer is reflected in the text.

Tourism: an Introduction has been written as an industryrelevant text that contains a wealth of tourism data and analyses the burning issues of the moment in international tourism. It draws on Uk, European and wider international case studies to explain the dramatic growth in tourism in the latter half of the twentiethcentury and considers its future prospects. Issues of concern in international tourism both now and for the millennium, such as sustainability, partnerships in development, Third World tourism and tourism impacts, are explored in detail.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ray Youell is a Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales

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This book is designed to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tourism, ‘the world’s biggest industry’. It is an ideal text for all those requiring a concise and thorough insight into the subject from international, UK and European perspectives. The author’s experience of the tourism industry in the UK and overseas, as a consultant, researcher and lecturer, is reflected in the text.

Tourism: an Introduction has been written as an industry-relevant text that contains a wealth of tourism data and analyses the burning issues of the moment in international tourism. It draws on UK, European and wider international case studies to explain the dramatic growth in tourism in the latter half of the twentieth-century and considers its future prospects. Issues of concern in international tourism both now and for the millennium, such as sustainability, partnerships in development, Third World tourism and tourism impacts, are all explored in detail.

Key features:

provides a clear and concise introduction to the tourism industry
written by a leading author in the field
comprehensive range of case studies with discussion points and essay questions
blends theory with current practice
useful glossary of terms and selected bibliography
contains up-to-date statistics throughout

Readership: Degree and BTEC HND/C courses in travel and tourism. Also for those taking tourism options in leisure, business studies, hospitality and geography courses. Also useful for those working in the tourism industry and as a ‘conversion’ text for students on postgraduate programmes who may be studying the subject for the first time.

Ray Youell is a Specialist Leisure and Tourism Consultant. He was previously Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Tourism at Sheffield Hallam University and has worked extensively in the tourism industry in the UK and overseas.

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Verlag
Longman
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0582356970
ISBN 13 
9780582356979
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
268
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