Encyclopedia of tourism /
In fewer than three hundred years tourism has become a global service industry of great economic, cultural and political importance. Published to critical acclaim, the Encyclopedia of Tourism - now available as a Routledge World Reference title - is the definitive one-volume reference source to this...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0203195671 9780203195673 0415154057 9780415154055 0415308909 9780415308908 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1 General Issues and Concepts Specific to Tourism: Accommodation, Consumerism, Gambling, Globalization, Policy, Seasonality
- 2 Definition of Key Terms and Acronyms: Ecoresort, Professional Native, Room Nights
- 3 Significant Institutions, Associations and Journals: Caribbean Tourism Organization, Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques, WTO, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Tourism Studies
- 4 Country Specific Tourism Profiles: Greece, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, South Africa
- 5 Trends and Patterns of Tourism Development and Growth: Community Development, Demography, Ecologically Sustainable Tourism, Forecasting, Zoning
- 6 Tourism as an Industry with Many Businesses: Adventure Tourism, Business Travel, Convention Bureaux, Hospitality, Marketing, Public Relations.