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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of case studies
- List of innovations in sustainability
- Preface
- Companion website information
- 1 Tourism today: Why is it a global phenomenon embracing all our lives?
- Introduction
- Travel and sustainability
- Case Study 1.1 The Maldives, tourism and sea level change
- Innovation in Sustainability 1.1 Sustainability as a philosophy to transform the impact of travel and tourism
- Case Study 1.2 Water equity issues and sustainability in the developing world
- Why study tourism? Is it just about enjoyment and holidays?
- The leisure society
- The internet and social media
- Concepts: Tourism, the tourist and travel
- An organizing framework for the analysis of tourism
- The tour, holidays, leisure time and the destination
- Measuring tourism
- The growth of global tourism and volatility in demand
- Case Study 1.3 Terrorism and its impact on global tourism: Managing for crises and destination resilience
- New forces affecting tourism: Globalization, inequality and the developed and developing world
- Case Study 1.4 Tourism and poverty alleviation
- A framework for the book
- Tourism and management as a focus for the book
- Managing tourism demand and supply: The perennial management challenge for tourism organizations
- The tourism supply chain
- Managing the tourism sector
- Disruptive innovations and technologies in tourism: A game changer for consumers and businesses?
- 2 Tourism: Its origins, growth and future
- Introduction
- Tourism in classical times
- The Middle Ages
- The Renaissance and Reformation
- The European Grand Tour
- Case Study 2.1 Changing patterns of spa development as a form of tourism
- Tourism and the coast: Transition from spas to the seaside resort
- Tourism in the Edwardian and inter-war years
- Post-war tourism: Towards international mass tourism
- The future of tourism
- Case Study 2.2 Emerging outbound markets: The BRIC and MINT economies
- The future for tourism growth: Asia-Pacific as the powerhouse of global tourism?
- Space tourism
- Conclusion
- 3 Demand: Why do people engage in tourism?
- Introduction
- What is tourism demand?
- The motivation dichotomy: Why do people go on holiday?
- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
- Case Study 3.1 Volunteer tourism
- Maslow’s hierarchy model and tourist motivation
- The tourism tradition of motivation studies: Classifying and understanding tourist motives
- Consumer behaviour and tourism
- Gender and ethnicity
- Case Study 3.2 The emergence of ecotourism markets in Brazil
- Psychographic segmentation
- Purchasing a holiday
- Case Study 3.3 Medical tourism – a new growth area for tourism?
- The tourist image of products and places
- Innovation in Sustainability 3.1 Repositioning a resort to address mass tourism demand – Calvià, Mallorca
- The future of tourism demand
- Case Study 3.4 Emergent forms of tourism demand – dementia and tourism
- Conclusion
- 4 Transporting the tourist I: Surface transport
- Introduction
- Transport, tourism and the tour
- Policy issues in tourist transport
- Case Study 4.1 Innovation in coach travel – Stagecoach’s megabus.com
- Land-based transport
- The car and tourist travel
- Cycling
- The UK’s national cycle network
- Innovation in Sustainability 4.1 Slow travel
- Coach and bus travel
- Rail travel
- Water-based transport
- Case Study 4.2 Tourist travel by rail – the Trans-Siberian Railway
- Cruises
- Ferries
- Inland waterways
- Managing land- and surface-based tourist transport
- Innovation in Sustainability 4.2 Monitoring and reducing carbon consumption in tourism
- 5 Transporting the tourist II: The aviation sector
- Introduction
- The role of the airport as a tourist terminal facility
- What is an airport and how is it operated?
- The international airline industry
- Trends in the airline industry in the new millennium
- Managing the airline industry
- Case Study 5.1 The use of taxation to limit travel behaviour: Air passenger duty in the UK
- Case Study 5.2 The performance and competitiveness of Chinese airlines
- Regulating international air transport
- Airline marketing: Its role and recent innovations
- How airlines use marketing functions
- The low-cost carriers: Aligning service provision to demand
- Case Study 5.3 The low-cost carrier: The Southwest phenomenon
- Low-cost carriers in Europe
- Airline marketing and developing client relationships: Frequent flyer programmes and alliances
- In-flight catering: A marketing opportunity?
- Future trends
- Conclusion
- The future of tourist travel and transport
- 6 Accommodation and hospitality services
- Introduction
- The hospitality sector
- The accommodation sector
- The accommodation sector as a global phenomenon and operational issues
- The characteristics of the accommodation industry
- The management and development of the accommodation sector
- Types of tourist accommodation
- Serviced accommodation sector: Hotels
- Case Study 6.1 Spa hotel development in Australia
- Case Study 6.2 The Chinese hotel sector
- The boutique hotel
- Budget accommodation and hotels
- The non-serviced accommodation sector
- The caravan and motor home sector
- Other issues for the accommodation sector
- Eating out
- Food festivals
- Environmental issues
- Innovation in Sustainability 6.1 Scandic Hotels and environmental issues – a pioneer in sustainable business practices
- Human resources issues
- Conclusion
- 7 Tour operating and travel retailing
- Introduction
- The tour operator
- Economics of tour operation: Managing for profit
- Tour operating business performance
- Regulating tour operating
- The European holiday market
- ATOL trends
- How do these companies compete for business?
- Consumer trends affecting the future of tour operating
- Innovation in Sustainability 7.1 Corporate Social Responsibility and tour operators
- Demographic factors
- Consumer issues in tour operating
- Case Study 7.1 New technology and the holiday rep
- Marketing and planning the holiday: The holiday brochure
- Case Study 7.2 Thomas Cook’s Let’s Go! integrated marketing campaign in 2013/2014
- Travel agents
- The evolution of travel agents
- Characteristics of travel agents
- The organization of travel agents
- Business travel
- Travel agents and information communication technology
- Social networking and tourism
- The future of travel retailing
- Case Study 7.3 TripAdvisor, eWoM and the rise of internet ratings of tourism products and services
- Conclusion
- 8 Visitor attractions and events
- Introduction
- Case Study 8.1 Events as attractions
- Attractions, events and tourism: A symbiotic relationship?
- Case Study 8.2 When management and planning fail: The tourism impact and legacy of the Rio Olympiad
- Classifying visitor attractions
- The events industry classified
- Visitor attractions in the UK: Recent trends and patterns
- Visitor attractions: Product considerations
- Attractions as a leisure product
- Visitor attractions and the product life cycle
- Visitor attractions and the visitor experience
- The visitor experience at attractions: Key influences
- Managing the visitor experience: Potential and prospects
- Innovation in Sustainability 8.1 The greening of meetings and events
- The future for visitor attraction management
- Product development and innovation
- Marketing and promotion
- Revenue generation and funding
- Education and training
- Community and public sector intervention
- Conclusion
- 9 The management of tourism
- Introduction
- Managing tourism businesses: Key principles
- The purpose of management in tourism organizations
- What do tourism managers manage?
- Marketing tourism as a management function
- The marketing mix
- Managing operational issues in tourism businesses
- Managing seasonality
- Managing service provision: Human resource issues and service delivery
- Service provision in tourism: A perennial management challenge?
- Case Study 9.1 The evolution of research on services marketing
- Developing and managing tourism ventures in the small business sector
- Case Study 9.2 The Disney model of customer care
- Tourism and innovation
- Challenges for tourism managers
- How and why does innovation occur and what is its significance in tourism?
- Tourism management in action: Designing and developing a visitor attraction
- Case Study 9.3 A feasibility study for a new tourism attraction: The scope and range of issues
- Conclusion
- 10 The public sector and tourism
- Introduction
- Governments and tourism
- Why governments intervene in the tourism sector
- Government intervention and tourism performance
- Tourism policy
- Case Study 10.1 Destination Management Organizations and tourism
- How government organizations influence tourism
- Planning and tourism
- Does tourism planning exist?
- Innovation in Sustainability 10.1 Championing sustainability in practice – the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC)
- The planning process for tourism
- Government tourism strategies
- The public sector marketing of tourism
- Innovation in Sustainability 10.2 Developing a country-based approach to sustainable tourism management
- The future of the public sector in the management of tourism
- 11 Managing the visitor and their impacts
- Introduction
- The geography of tourism: Its application to impact analysis
- European tourism: Trends and patterns
- The geography of European tourism based on air transport: Key trends and impacts
- Analysing the impact of tourism
- The economic impact of tourism
- Constructing the economic impact of tourism
- Social and cultural impacts of tourism
- Tourism and the environment
- The tourism industry response
- Visitor management
- Innovation in Sustainability 11.1 Getting tourists out of their cars onto public transport – the experience of New Forest National Park, UK
- Case Study 11.1 The challenge of managing tourism growth: The case of Vietnam
- Case Study 11.2 Managing the tourist impact in Venice
- Future issues for visitor management
- 12 The future of tourism: Post tourism?
- Introduction
- The spread of tourism
- The snowball and amoeba concepts in tourism
- Case Study 12.1 The tourism strategy of Turkey to 2023
- Understanding the future of tourism
- Case Study 12.2 BREXIT and tourism
- The pressures for tourism to change
- An ageing travelling public
- New social trends
- New outbound markets
- Crises and disasters in tourism
- Crises in tourism and business response: A management challenge?
- Technology and tourism
- Climate change, tourism and the environment: Its impact on future tourism trends
- New business trends
- Limiting tourism: The beginning of the end?
- Towards a new tourism management concept: Managed tourism
- Index
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