| Tourism, Territory and Sustainable Development: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications in Japan and Europe Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Romão, João (Author) |
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ISBN: 9811344140 ISBN-13: 9789811344145 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Urban & Regional - Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism - Business & Economics | Economics - Comparative |
| Dewey: 330.9 |
| Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.51 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism. The tourist sector (including recreation and leisure activities) has turned into a complex contemporaneous socio-economic and geographic phenomenon, with a multiplicity of travel motives (e.g., entertainment, culture, relaxed life style, wellness, nature, etc.) and with a wide variety of impacts (e.g., urban- and regional-economic effects, crowding phenomena, environmental decay, etc.). Time has now come to offer a synthesis of the analytical apparatus in tourism research, with particular attention for system-wide, socio-economic and environmental dimensions of this important global industry. Tourism has in the past been a largely neglected field in regional science research. And therefore, it is laudable that Jo o Rom o has taken the decision to compose a systematically designed and well crafted monograph on the socio-economic, environmental and spatial dimensions of modern tourism. It offers a wealth of analytical insights and quantitative research tools for advanced tourism studies. It also fills an important gap in the current regional science literature. Peter Nijkamp, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam |