This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field.

... The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies aims to provide academics across many disciplines with a definitive, critical, and indispensable resource and guide. It is not located in any one particular discipline, but seeks to reflect the wide ...

Garner's interest in the coastline—a zone that resists all attempts at definition—shapes this generously illustrated book.

The purpose of this book is to examine this transformation of space and draw out the implications for tourism policy and planning.

Provides a broad analysis of the nature and growth, business opportunities and the management problems they present, the range and types of activities available as well as the current importance and future status of this rapidly evolving ...

Fully updated and revised, and now including new contributions from research in South East Asia, the Middle East, China, Japan, Australasia, and North America, the new edition of this handbook analyses the origins, interpretations and ...

... The Sage handbook of tourism studies , ed . by Tazim Jamal and Mike Robinson . Sage Publications , CA , 2009. 716p bibl index afp ISBN 9781412923972 , $ 140.00 Tourism as an academic discipline has come a long way in roughly the past 30 ...

Tourism Crises... tackles the following areas: Political disturbance: the relationship between politics and tourism and political inspired tourism crises. · Social unrest: host-guest relations and tourists as targets of unrest · Economic ...

This handbook provides a detailed guide to marketing and management in tourism in the 1990s.