E-grāmata: Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism

"The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism 2nd edition aims to offer the first authoritative overview of tourism studies following the COVID-19 pandemic, after the dust has settled and the longer-term impacts can be assessed. It is edited by a leading figure with chapters written by an international team of top scholars to provide essential reading for students and researchers. The new edition incorporates diverse theories, core themes, major perspectives, and new developments. It explores the organization and practice of tourism, as well as key health, economic, social, and environmental issues. It addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and the tourist industry, reflecting complexity and change in the field while offering clarity and accessibility for students"--

The first authoritative overview of tourism studies published post-COVID-19

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism remains a definitive reference in this interdisciplinary field. Edited and authored by leading scholars from around the world, this state-of-the-art volume provides a comprehensive critical overview of tourism studies across the social sciences. In-depth yet accessible chapters combine established theories and cutting-edge developments and analysis, addressing a wide range of current and emerging topics, issues, debates, and themes.

The second edition of the Companion reflects the complexity of the changing field, incorporating new developments, diverse theories, core themes, and fresh perspectives throughout. New and revised chapters explore the organization and practice of tourism, pressing health, economic, social, and environmental challenges, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and the tourist industry, empowerment, placemaking, mindfulness and wellbeing, resident attitudes towards tourism, Chinese outbound tourism, public transport, long-distance walking, and more.

• Covers the full spectrum of tourism studies, including its connections to geography, sociology, urban studies, sustainability, marketing, management, globalization, and policy
• Outlines exciting new and emerging approaches, theoretical foundations, and major developments in tourism studies
• Offers perspectives on major topics including the role of tourism in the Anthropocene, global and local change, resilience, innovation, and consumer and business behavior
• Sets an agenda for future tourism research and reviews significant issues in theory, method, and practice
• Features new contributions from an international panel of younger scholars and established researchers

With a wealth of up-to-date bibliographic references and extensive coverage of the tourism-related literature, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism, Second Edition, is required reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers, lecturers, and academic scholars in tourism studies, tourism management, tourism geography, tourism theory, sociology, urban studies, and globalization, as well as professionals working in tourism and hospitality management worldwide.