Taking Tourism to the Limits / Edition 1

by Michelle Aicken, Stephen J. Page, Chris Ryan

Overview

The concept of margins and limits is often referred to within the tourism academic literature and includes subjects as diverse as carrying capacities, peripheral economies, technological advancement, adventure tourism, dark tourism and socially marginalized communities. After identifying a number of ways in which ‘limits’ might be defined Taking Tourism to the Limits explores concepts and challenges facing contemporary tourism in five main sections, namely in tourism planning and management, nature based tourism, dark tourism, adventure and sport tourism and the accommodation industry.

Drawing upon case studies, current research and conceptualizations these different facets of the ‘limits’ are each introduced by the editors with commentaries that seek to identify themes and current practice and thinking in the respective domains. The picture that emerges is of an industry that reinvents itself in response to changing market parameters even while core issues of stakeholder equities and political processes remain problematic.

International in scale, the book links with its companion piece Indigenous Tourism – the commodification and management of culture (also published by Elsevier) as an outcome of the very highly successful conference, Taking Tourism to the Limits hosted by the University of Waikato’ Department of Tourism Management in 2003.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080446448
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2005
Series:	Advances in Tourism Research Series
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ryan Chris, Page Stephen J., Aicken Michelle

Table of Contents

Section headings:
Tourism Planning and Management; Nature Based Tourism; Adventure and Sport Tourism; Dark Tourism; The Accommodation Sector.

Editorial Reviews

"...an admirable, focussed and yet eclectic collection of papers, good and sometimes very good on theory and the application of theory and also knotted together in a far superior form to many other such efforts."
-David Bowen, Oxford Brookes University, TOURISM MANAGEMENT, 2006 (in press)

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