| Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management Contributor(s): Mason, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 075065970X ISBN-13: 9780750659703 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann OUR PRICE: $51.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three key areas of tourism: impacts, planning and management. Tourism impacts are multi-faceted and therefore are difficult to plan for and manage. This book looks at all the key players involved - be they tourists, host communities or industry members - and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism successfully. Divided into four parts, this text discusses: * The growth, development and impacts of tourism * Tourism planning and management: concepts, issues and key players * Tools and techniques in tourism planning and management: education, regulation and information technology * The future of tourism planning and management: issues of sustainability and the future Up-to-date, international case studies are used, for example the impacts of 9/11 and terrorism in Bali, to illustrate and provide a real-life context for the theories discussed. Exercises are also included to consolidate learning. * Links impacts, planning and management in tourism * Global coverage and perspective with cases and examples from the UK, Australia and USA * Takes an applied approach, using international case studies to explain and illustrate the theories discussed |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism - Business & Economics | Management - General - Business & Economics | Economics - Microeconomics |
| Dewey: 338.479 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 7.5" W x 9.58" (0.91 lbs) 195 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tourism impacts are multi-faceted and therefore are difficult to plan for and manage. This book looks at all the key players involved - be they tourists, host communities or industry members - and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism successfully. |