Tourism: Changes, Impacts, And Opportunities [Lingua Inglese]: Change, Impacts and Opportunities - Brossura

Wall, Geoffrey; Mathieson, Alister

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ISBN 10: 0130994006 ISBN 13: 9780130994004

Casa editrice: Pearson College Div, 2005

Riassunto

Tourism provides a comprehensive and balanced discussion of the impacts of tourism. The authors address the nature of tourism and tourists and the economic, physical and social impact that can result from their activity.

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This new text builds upon the success of the classic Mathieson & Wall original Tourism: economic, physical and social impacts to provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the consequences of tourism. The authors address the nature of tourism and tourists and the economic, environmental and social impacts that result from their activities. It provides a unique blend of theoretical principles and practice for a balanced approach to tourism.

 

 Key features

 

 

• new approaches to impact assessment are considered as well as a rethinking of tourism impacts

 

• uses international case studies and models to illustrate key concepts

 

• wide range of examples from both the developing and developed world

 

• incorporates the latest insights and literature

 

• contains new chapters on frameworks for analysis and sustainable developments

 

• contains an extensive bibliography and subject, place and author indexes to permit easy access to information

 

 

This text will be essential reading to students, academics and practitioners of tourism, leisure, hospitality, geography, management, business studies and the wider social sciences.

 

Geoffrey Wall is Professor of Geography at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Alister Mathieson  is Dean, School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Toronto, Canada.

 

Product Description:

Book by Wall Geoffrey Mathieson Alister

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pearson College Div
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0130994006
• ISBN 13: 9780130994004
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 412