The geography of tourism and recreation : environment, place, and space
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The geography of tourism and recreation : environment, place, and space
Routledge, 1999
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- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. [269]-304
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780415160032
Description
The Geography of Tourism and Recreation presents an accessible, comprehensive introduction to tourism, leisure and recreation and to the relationships between them. Illustrated throughout, this accessible text includes a wealth of international case studies spanning Europe, North America, Australasia and China. Each chapter highlights the methods of analysis used by geographers to analyse recreation and tourism, and highlights the similarities and differences between the way recreation and tourism is analysed. Recent perspectives developed in human geography are introduced (eg. gender studies and postmodernism) and a range of chapters examine the impact of recreation and tourism on key issues including: the demand and supply of recreation and tourism; the role of public policy, planning and management; the impact of tourism and recreation on urban, rural, mountain and coastal environments, and tourism and recreation in wilderness areas and other peripheral regions.
Spanning the spectrum of recreation and tourism in a manner which is both internationally wide-ranging and student focused, this book introduces both landmark studies and the most recent contributions to the geographical analysis of recreation and tourism, and represents an invaluable contribution to those studying in this field.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Tourism Matters, 2. The Demand for Tourism and Recreation, 3. The Supply of Tourism and Recreation, 4. THe impacts of Tourism and Recreation, 5. Tourism and Recreation: The Urban Context, 6. Tourism and Recreation in Rural Areas 7. Tourism and Recreation in the Pleasure Periphery: Wilderness and National Parks 8. Tourism and Recreation Planning and Policy 9. The Future, References, Name Index, Place Index, Subject Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780415160049
Description
The Geography of Tourism and Recreation presents an accessible, comprehensive introduction to tourism, leisure and recreation and to the relationships between them.
Illustrated throughout, this accessible text includes a wealth of international case studies spanning Europe, North America, Australasia and China. Each chapter highlights the methodologies and methods of analysis used by geographers to analyse recreation and tourism, and highlights the similarities and differences between the way recration and tourism is analysed. Recent perspectives developed in human geography are introduced (eg. gender studies and postmodernism) and a range of chapters examine the impact of recreation and tourism on key issues including: the demand and supply of recreation and tourism; the role of public policy, planning and management; the impact of tourism and recreation on urban, rural, mountain and coastal environments, and tourism and recreation in wilderness areas and other peripheral regions.
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