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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism

Release on 2016-09-012016-09-01 by Linda L. Lowry
The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism

Author: Linda L. Lowry

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISBN: 9781483368962

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 1640

View: 504

Taking a global and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism brings together a team of international scholars to examine the travel and tourism industry, which is expected to grow at an annual rate of four percent for the next decade. In more than 500 entries spanning four comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia examines the business of tourism around the world paying particular attention to the social, economic, environmental, and policy issues at play. The book examines global, regional, national, and local issues including transportation, infrastructure, the environment, and business promotion. By looking at travel trends and countries large and small, the Encyclopedia analyses a wide variety of challenges and opportunities facing the industry. In taking a comprehensive and global approach, the Encyclopedia approaches the field of travel and tourism through the numerous disciplines it reaches, including the traditional tourism administration curriculum within schools of business and management, economics, public policy, as well as social science disciplines such as the anthropology and sociology. Key features include: More than 500 entries authored and signed by key academics in the field Entries on individual countries that details the health of the tourism industry, policy and planning approaches, promotion efforts, and primary tourism draws. Additional entries look at major cities and popular destinations Coverage of travel trends such as culinary tourism, wine tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, geotourism, slow tourism, heritage and cultural-based tourism, sustainable tourism, and recreation-based tourism Cross-references and further readings A Reader’s Guide grouping articles by disciplinary areas and broad themes
Business & Economics
The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism
Language: en
Pages: 1640

The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism

Authors: Linda L. Lowry
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-01 - Publisher: SAGE Publications

Taking a global and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism brings together a team of international scholars to examine the travel and tourism industry, which is expected to grow at an annual rate of four percent for the next decade. In more than 500 entries spanning
Travel Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 596

Travel Medicine

Authors: Robert Steffen, Hans O. Lobel, James Haworth, David J. Bradley
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Almost 50 million persons visit another continent each year. It is mainly those 15-18 million travelers from industrialized nations who visit or reside in developing countries that are at increased health risk. To develop effective health protection advice, the health risks of travel and the benefits of prophylaxis (vaccines, new
Time Travel in Popular Media
Language: en
Pages: 325

Time Travel in Popular Media

Authors: Matthew Jones, Joan Ormrod
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-30 - Publisher: McFarland

In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Some time
Travel and Transformation
Language: en
Pages: 252

Travel and Transformation

Authors: Garth Lean, Russell Staiff
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-24 - Publisher: Routledge

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these
Travel, Tourism, and Identity
Language: en
Pages: 308

Travel, Tourism, and Identity

Authors: Gabriel R. Ricci
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-29 - Publisher: Routledge

Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside their social, cultural, or linguistic groups. Whether such contact is the result of tourism, seeking exile, or relocating abroad, the volume's contributors demonstrate how one's identity, cultural assumptions, and worldview can

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