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Transformational Tourism
. Ed(S): Reisinger, Yvette, Phd (Temple University Usa)
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Description for Transformational Tourism
"Transformational Tourism" deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behavior and have a positive impact on the world. Editor(s): Reisinger, Yvette, PhD. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 171 x 25. Weight in Grams: 738.
Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, and environmental threats. It identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.
Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, and environmental threats. It identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
CABI Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780642093
SKU
V9781780642093
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About . Ed(S): Reisinger, Yvette, Phd (Temple University Usa)
Yvette Reisinger is Adjunct Professor of Business at James Cook University in Singapore 574421. Her research interests include cross-cultural differences in behavior, communication, and socio-cultural impacts of tourism. PhD is Head of the Department of Business at Swansea University, UK. A strong proponent of advocacy scholarship, he was one of originators of the notion of hopeful tourism scholarship and is co-chair of the biennial Critical Tourism Studies Conference Series. Nigel has a background in leisure policy and public sector tourism and public relations management. He is passionately interested in the connections between tourism, social justice, identity and place and has written or edited 15 books in these areas. Nigel is an editorial board member of several leading international journals including Place Branding & Public Diplomacy, Hospitality & Society and Vacation Marketing and is an Associate Editor of the Annals of Tourism Research. Dr. Omar Moufakkir is a professor, MA programs course leader at Stenden University in the Netherlands, and the editor of 'The Journal of Tourism and Peace Research'. His current research focuses on tourism and peace and the effects of immigration on destination image and travel propensity.
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