Tourism Social Science Series


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Cognitive Psychology and Tourism
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CHF 144.00
Compiled from 10 years of research, with chapters contributed by experts in the field, we demonstrate how tourism will benefit from applying a new paradigm found in mainstream psychology, termed here the ‘Cognitive Wave’.
Fashion and Tourism
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CHF 138.00
Fashion and tourism have common structures and similarities on many fronts. Both phenomena and their operations have been through their ‘mass’ cycles, currently seeking alternative ways of expression and development. Both industries are also important business sectors globally.
Space Tourism
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CHF 116.00
This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary work on the emergent phenomenon of space tourism. It is written by leading specialists and covers a wide spectrum of topics including space history and technology, the environmental, social, and legal aspects of the development of a future...
Authenticity & Tourism
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This book brings together contributions from authors who are actively engaged in authenticity research in a tourism context. In so doing, it demonstrates the various trajectories research has taken towards understanding the significance of authenticity.
Social Conflict and Harmony
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CHF 152.00
The book primarily employs Coser's (1956) social conflict theory for a discussion of tourism development in Chinese communities.
Tourism Research Paradigms
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CHF 176.00
The theme of this book focuses on the being of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. It discusses both ontological and epistemological issues in tourism studies. In addition to examining what constitutes tourism knowledge and how tourism knowledge is acquired, various theoretical and...
Tourism Education
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CHF 184.00
What knowledge and skills should tourism students be exposed to? How should tourism education programs at all levels be designed to create responsible leaders for the future of tourism? What is the employability and range of careers students can expect after graduation? This book examines and...
Tourism Research Frontiers
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CHF 184.00
This volume has as its central theme the presentation of original papers which seek to critique, deconstruct and go beyond existing research and knowledge frontiers in tourism. The text also includes debates on the value of tourism research at the institutional level and discussions of tourism...
Geographies of Tourism
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CHF 158.00
Aims to map out the past and present of the tourism geographies sub-discipline within - and more importantly - beyond the English language contributions, and learn from the historical trajectories as well as experiences of tourism geographers working in different cultural and linguistic contexts.
Tourism Social Media
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CHF 170.00
This volume addresses the transformative power of tourism social media and offers novel theoretical and methodological approaches to its academic investigation. Acknowledging the collective value creation mechanisms of new media, the authors explore how technology nurtures, augments and modifies...
Culture and Society in Tourism Contexts
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CHF 158.00
This book strives to understand the social and cultural dynamics in Mediterranean tourist destinations through ethnographic examples from Greece, Spain, Egypt, France, Malta and Crete. It observes and examines the social, cultural and relational processes involved as migrants, tourists and new...
History of Tourism Thought
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CHF 578.00
A special box set collection that includes four volumes from the "Tourism Social Science Series". It is a collection of stories that reveal the diverse personalities, passions, and peculiarities behind the authors' choice of tourism as a specialization. It covers areas such as anthropology,...
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