The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies by Jamal, Tazim

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781446208755)

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The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies by Jamal, Tazim

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies

$78.00
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies by Jamal, Tazim

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies

$78.00
Format: Paperback
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"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."
--Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis


Tourist 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.

Among the key features covered in the book are:

  • The evolution and position of Tourism Studies
  • The relationship of tourism to culture
  • Route maps to the ecology and economics of tourism
  • Special Events, Destination Management and Tourism
  • Methodologies of Study
  • Tourism and Transport
  • Tourism and Heritage
  • Tourism and Postolonialism
  • 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. It will be quickly recognized as a landmark in the new and expanding field of Tourism Studies.



Author: Tazim Jamal
ISBN-10: 1446208753
ISBN-13: 9781446208755
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2011
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.91lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 1.60d
By Tazim Jamal
By Tazim Jamal
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Tazim Jamal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. She has a PhD in Management from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and an MBA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her main research interests lie in tourism planning, heritage tourism, collaborative processes and theoretical/methodological issues related to tourism and sustainability. Her current research areas include small mountain communities in Western Canada, rural communities in Texas, and the Riviera Maya, Mexico. She has published widely in various tourism-related journals.

Mike Robinson holds the Chair of Tourism and Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is also Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change-an international research body that carries out work on the changing relationships between tourism and culture. Mike is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, an Associate Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Tourism and is on the board of four other international journals. He is Series Editor of the Tourism and Cultural Change Book Series.

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