Table of Content
List of Contributors ix Preface xvii Part I Introduction 1 1 Tourism: Conceptualizations, Institutions, and Issues 3 C. Michael Hall, Allan M. Williams, and Alan A. Lew Part II Perspectives on Tourism 23 2 The Measurement of Global Tourism: Old Debates, New Consensus, and Continuing Challenges 25 Stephen L. J. Smith 3 Tourist Flows and the Spatial Distribution of Tourists 36 Bob McKercher and Alan A. Lew 4 Behavioral Approaches in Tourism Research 49 D. Jim Walmsley 5 Toward a Political Economy of Tourism 61 Allan M. Williams 6 Cultural Geographies of Tourism 74 Mike Crang 7 Tourist Practices and Performances 85 David Crouch Part III Producing Tourism and Tourism Spaces 97 8 The Cultural Turn? Toward a More Critical Economic Geography of Tourism 99 Keith G. Debbage and Dimitri Ioannides 9 Transnational Corporations, Globalization, and Tourism 110 Kevin Meethan 10 Entrepreneurial Cultures and Small Business Enterprises in Tourism 122 Gareth Shaw 11 Labor Mobility and Market Structure in Tourism 135 Michael Riley 12 Transport and Tourism 146 Stephen Page 13 The Tourism Area Life Cycle in the Twenty-First Century 159 Richard Butler Part IV Globalization and Contested Places 171 14 Problematizing Place Promotion 173 Nigel Morgan 15 Tourism, Information Technology, and Development: Revolution or Reinforcement? 184 Simon Milne, David Mason, and Julia Hasse 16 Theming, Tourism, and Fantasy City 195 Thomas W. Paradis 17 Whose Tourist-Historic City? Localizing the Global and Globalizing the Local 210 Gregory J. Ashworth and John E. Tunbridge 18 Urban Tourism: Between the Global and the Local 223 T. C. Chang and Shirlena Huang 19 Postcolonialism, Colonialism, and Tourism 235 Anne-Marie d''Hauteserre 20 Indigenous People and Tourism 246 Tom D. Hinch Part V Tourists, Values, and Practices 259 21 Tourism Motivations and Typologies 261 Richard Prentice 22 Tourism, Modernity, and Postmodernity 280 Tim Oakes and Claudio Minca 23 Cultural Circuits of Tourism: Commodities, Place and Re-consumption 291 Irena Ateljevic and Stephen Doorne 24 Narratives of Being Elsewhere: Tourism and Travel Writing 303 Mike Robinson 25 Gender and Sexuality in Tourism Research 316 Annette Pritchard 26 The Souvenir: Conceptualizing the Object(s) of Tourist Consumption 327 Jon Goss Part VI Tourism, Place, Space, and Forms 337 27 Tourism and Landscape 339 Theano S. Terkenli 28 The Beach as a Liminal Space 349 Robert Preston-Whyte 29 Tourism, Shopping, and Retailing: An Axiomatic Relationship? 360 Tim Coles 30 Tourism and the Countryside 374 Richard Sharpley 31 Mobility, Tourism, and Second Homes 387 Dieter K. Müller 32 Gaming and Tourism: Issues for the New Millennium 399 Patricia A. Stokowski 33 Geographic Perspectives on Event Tourism 410 Donald Getz Part VII Tourism, the Environment, and Society 423 34 Tourism and the Natural Environment 425 Klaus Meyer-Arendt 35 Tourism and Touristic Representations of Nature 438 Jarkko Saarinen 36 Environmental Impacts of Tourism 450 P. P. Wong 37 Tourism and Resource Management 462 David Mercer 38 National Parks: Wilderness and Culture 473 Stephen Boyd 39 Ecotourism: Theory and Practice 484 Erlet Cater 40 Tourism, Sustainability, and Social Theory 498 George Hughes 41 Tourism and the Elusive Paradigm of Sustainable Development 510 David B. Weaver Part VIII Policies, Planning, and Governance 523 42 Tourism and Public Policy 525 C. Michael Hall and John Jenkins 43 Partnerships, Participation, and Social Science Research in Tourism Planning 541 Bill Bramwell 44 Local and Regional Tourism Policy and Power 555 Andrew Church 45 Tourism Communities and Growth Management 569 Alison Gill 46 Political Boundaries and Regional Cooperation in Tourism 584 Dallen J. Timothy and Victor B. Teye 47 GIS Applications in the Planning and Management of Tourism 596 Yianna Farsari and Poulicos Prastacos Part IX Conclusions 609 48 Contemporary Themes and Challenges in Tourism Research 611 Allan M. Williams, C. Michael Hall, and Alan A. Lew Index 619
