The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism by Linda L. Lowry PDF

By Linda L. Lowry

ISBN-10: 1483368947

ISBN-13: 9781483368948

Taking an international and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE foreign Encyclopedia of trip and Tourism brings jointly a crew of overseas students to envision the trip and tourism undefined, that is anticipated to develop at an annual cost of 4 percentage for the subsequent decade. 

In greater than 500 entries spanning 4 complete volumes, the Encyclopedia examines the enterprise of tourism worldwide paying specific consciousness to the social, fiscal, environmental, and coverage matters at play. The ebook examines worldwide, local, nationwide, and native matters together with transportation, infrastructure, the surroundings, and company promoting. by way of go back and forth tendencies and international locations huge and small, the Encyclopedia analyses a large choice of demanding situations and possibilities dealing with the industry. 

In taking a complete and worldwide procedure, the Encyclopedia ways the sphere of trip and tourism in the course of the various disciplines it reaches, together with the normal tourism management curriculum inside of colleges of industrial and administration, economics, public coverage, in addition to social technological know-how disciplines corresponding to the anthropology and sociology.

Key beneficial properties include:

  • More than 500 entries authored and signed by way of key teachers within the field
  • Entries on person international locations that information the healthiness of the tourism undefined, coverage and making plans techniques, advertising efforts, and first tourism attracts. extra entries examine significant towns and renowned destinations
  • Coverage of commute tendencies akin to culinary tourism, wine tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, geotourism, sluggish tourism, background and cultural-based tourism, sustainable tourism, and recreation-based tourism
  • Cross-references and extra readings
  • A Reader’s advisor grouping articles by means of disciplinary components and wide themes

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