Key Concepts in Tourist Studies
- Melanie Smith - Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
- Nicola MacLeod - University of Greenwich, UK
- Margaret Hart Robertson - University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
SAGE Key Concepts series
Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management | Sociology of Sport & Leisure | Tourism Studies
Key Concepts in Tourist Studies provides a focused, quick reference guide for students exploring the fast growing and diverse field of tourist studies.
Chosen by experienced teachers and researchers each concept defines, explains and develops a key topic in tourism and will act as a springboard for further reading and debate. This is an essential resource for all students of tourism containing concise and authoritative entries on:
- Planning Tourism
- Sustainable Tourism
- Festivals and Events
- Cultural Tourism
- Economics of Tourism
- Regeneration
- The Experience Economy
- Urban Tourism
- Sex Tourism
Meeting the needs of the modern student, the book offers the basic materials, tools and guidance for making sense of tourism and gaining the best results in essays and exams.
very good book for 1st year BA students
Publication can be very helpful for students to develop an approach for different tourism-related research projects - in particular to have a basis for the research of topic-related theoretical material.
Book is very useful for different courses in tourism studies: research, psychology & sociology, healt & spa tourism... The articles provide a good introduction to basic topics and therefore are a good "starting point" for further research. I will recommend the book to students particulary in courses, where students have to carry out research or to produce research articles or papers.
what I like very much:
1) further reading and recommended books essentail for the particular topisc
2) the base of different concept and views on tourism as a science
3) practical examples which are easy addapted by students
what, in my oppinion, is missed:
the explenantion how those key concept may be combined, the should be presented with clue - not as some kind of dictionary
This book is OK, and handy for those students who want to pursue a specialisation in tourism studies. But I will not recommend this book for my general students
The book is well written but not entirely relevant to the module, and due to budget constraints, and other similar books already within the library I can not justify this additional purchase.
A very user friendly text, particularly accessible for first year students.
