Product Description

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism provides comprehensive coverage of worldwide tourism destinations, examining the basic principles underlying the geography of tourist demand, supply and transportation, together with a broad survey of world tourism generating and destination regions.

* Leading textbook in tourism field now in its fourth edition. Includes new cases (Sydney Olympics, satellite accounts, Athens Olympics, 9/11 and the Bali bombing) and new topics (security, terrorism, and selling destinations)
* Provides a comprehensive examination of the basic principles underlying the geography of tourist demand, supply and transportation
* Presents a broad survey of world tourism generating and destination regions

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1077238 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Review
"...the ONLY decent tourism geography text on the market." Professor Susan Ryan, California University of Pennsylvania This is an excellent required text for any undergraduate tourism geography course and an essential reference for tourism geographers at the graduate level. The structure of the text allows for those new to tourism studies, geography or tourism geography to quickly survey essential concepts before moving onto the regional tourism geography section. The book covers every country in the world and offers detail from a supply and demand pespective.- Susan Ryan, Department of Earth Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, California, Pennsylvania, USA

Review
"...the ONLY decent tourism geography text on the market."
Professor Susan Ryan, California University of Pennsylvania

This is an excellent required text for any undergraduate tourism geography course and an essential reference for tourism geographers at the graduate level. The structure of the text allows for those new to tourism studies, geography or tourism geography to quickly survey essential concepts before moving onto the regional tourism geography section. The book covers every country in the world and offers detail from a supply and demand pespective.- Susan Ryan, Department of Earth Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, California, Pennsylvania, USA

From the Back Cover
 Worldwide Destinations: The geography of travel and tourism is a unique text that explores the demand, supply, organisational aspects and resources of every tourism destination in the world.

This fifth edition is brought up to date with key features such as:

• An exploration of current issues such as climate change, economic capacity, "grey" tourism and social impacts


• New full colour interior, packed iwth helpful pedagogic features, including discussion points and assignements to encourage greater student involvement


• A companion website is now available at www.elsevierdirect.com/9780750689472 and includes interactive, multiple-choice questions for students to test their own learning


• A new and fully updated edition of Worldwide Destinations Casebook is also available with 38 in-depth cases to help bring textbook theory to life

The book provides thematic chapters at the beginning which detail the geographical knowledge and principles required to understand how to approach the analysis of destinations. The further division of the book into thematic and regional chapters enables the student to carry out a systematic analysis of a particular destination.

Worldwide Destinations: the geography of travel and tourism is an invaluable resource for studying every destination in the world as well as the demand, resources and future of the geography of tourism. This thorough guide is a must-have for any tourism student.

Brian Boniface, MA
M.A. (University of Georgia) is a tourism consultant

Chris Cooper
is Professor and Director, Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute, Nottingham University Business School, UK

Customer Reviews

Worldwide Destinations
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