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The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies
Tazim Jamal
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Description for The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies
Paperback. An in-depth, critical and multi-disciplinary overview of this expanding subject area. Editor(s): Jamal, Tazim; Robinson, Professor Mike. Num Pages: 736 pages, black & white halftones, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1348.
- Professor Mike Crang, Durham University
Tourism studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies.
This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues and agenda of tourism studies, exploring:
"The strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of analyses, and distinction of its contributors, nothing is comparable."
- Professor Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis
- Professor Mike Crang, Durham University
Tourism studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies.
This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues and agenda of tourism studies, exploring:
- The evolution and position of tourism studies
- The relationship of tourism to culture
- The ecology and economics of tourism
- Special events and destination management
- Methodologies of study
- Tourism and transport
- Tourism and heritage
- Tourism and postcolonialism
- Global tourist business operations
Ranging from local to global issues, and from questions of management to the ethical dilemmas of tourism, this is a comprehensive, critically informed, constructively organized overview of the field. It draws together an inter-disciplinary group of contributors who are among the most celebrated names in the field and will be quickly recognized as a landmark in the new and expanding field of tourism studies.
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1348g
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781446208755
SKU
V9781446208755
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Ref
99-2
About Tazim Jamal
I am Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage - a major inter-disciplinary research and graduate Institute working with the World Heritage Site and associated museums of Ironbridge. My interests lie in how we produce and consume categories of heritage within changing cultural and cross-cultural contexts. I am particularly interested in how tourists experience the past and how tourism works with heritage to shape identities at the individual and collective level.
Reviews for The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies
This is the strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of analyses, and distinction of its contributors, nothing is comparable. It will be greeted enthusiastically as an indispensable reference source.
Professor Dean MacCannell The breadth of vision and sweep of accounts is remarkable, and range of topics laudable... a rare combination of the authoritative, the challenging and stimulating.
Professor Mike Crang The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies is a really useful and helpful book that gives a comprehensive and thorough overview of all aspects of tourism studies. The book is addressed to a wide range of people, including students, academics and professionals in tourism. It could be used either as a textbook or as an indispensable source of references… a valuable acquisition to the tourism section of any library.
Miroslava Dimitrova
Professor Dean MacCannell The breadth of vision and sweep of accounts is remarkable, and range of topics laudable... a rare combination of the authoritative, the challenging and stimulating.
Professor Mike Crang The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies is a really useful and helpful book that gives a comprehensive and thorough overview of all aspects of tourism studies. The book is addressed to a wide range of people, including students, academics and professionals in tourism. It could be used either as a textbook or as an indispensable source of references… a valuable acquisition to the tourism section of any library.
Miroslava Dimitrova