Gareth Shaw & Allan M Williams 
Tourism and Tourism Spaces [EPUB ebook] 

This is a critical introduction to the relations between tourism, tourists, and tourism spaces. It fuses economic and cultural perspectives to explain how tourism is dependent on place and space, while at the same time as defining those places and spaces.

Examining different levels of scale – from local to global – Tourism and Tourism Spaces is informed by the discussion of three key processes:

– production and consumption of tourist spaces

– consumption and commodification of tourist experiences

– construction and reconstruction of tourist spaces

Each chapter engages with different theoretical perspectives; is illustrated with comparative examples and case studies; uses tables, boxes and figures throughout; and concludes with a summary.

An integrated and systematic review of a range of theoretical positions – that integrates economic and cultural – Tourism and Tourism Spaces will be a key resource for students of geography, sociology, management studies, hospitality studies, and leisure studies.

Cuprins

Introduction

PART ONE: PRODUCTION, REGULATION AND COMPETITION

Production and Regulation

Tourism Firms and the Organization of Production

Inter-company Cooperation and Competition

PART TWO: CONSUMPTION, EXPERIENCE AND COMMODIFICATION

Mapping Tourism Consumption

From Fordism to Mc Donaldization

Engineering the Tourist Experience

Tourism and the Commodification of Local Communities

Impacts and Relationships

PART THREE: CONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING TOURISM PLACES AND SPACES

Tourism Places, Spaces and Change

Established Tourism Spaces in Transition

Changes in Coastal Resorts

Landscapes of Pleasure

The Construction of New Tourism Spaces and Places

Conclusions

Despre autor

Allan studied Economics and Geography at University College Swansea, 1969-72, before completing his Ph D at the LSE. After completing his doctoral thesis, he worked as a Research Fellow at the LSE on a project on′Change in Urban Britain′,  and in 1976-8 was Lecturer in Geography at the University of Durham. In 1978 he moved to the Geography Department at the University of Exeter, where he was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then, from 1995, Professor of Human Geography and European Studies. He was Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies 1987-95. He also jointly established, with Gareth Shaw, an MSc in Tourism, Development and Policy at Exeter in 2000. He was appointed to the Chair in European Integration and Globalization at London Metropolitan in 2006, in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations, and the Working Lives Research Institute. He joined the Tourism Group in the Faculty of Management at Surrey in January 2011.