Culinary, Hospitality, Travel & Tourism

This new text builds upon the success of the classic Mathieson and Wall original Tourism: impacts, change: economic, physical and social impacts and provides holistic and rigorous examination of the key issues of tourism impacts. Addressing the nature of tourism and tourists and the economic, social and environmental issues that can result from their activity, the text provides balanced and comprehensive discussion of the consequences.

• Provides a unique blend of theoretical principles and practice for a balanced approach to tourism
• Uses international case studies and models to illustrate key concepts
• Features chapter objectives, end of chapter summaries and review questions to consolidate knowledge
• Gives entirely balanced coverage of both developed and developing countries

• New approaches to impact assessment are considered as well as a rethinking of tourism impacts
• Wider range of examples from both the developing and developed world helps students place key issues in context
• Fully updated with the latest data and tables from around the world
• New chapters on environmental impacts, sustainable developments and a conclusion chapter

1. Introduction
2. Frameworks
3. Rethinking Tourism Impacts
4. Economic Impacts
5. Physical Impacts
6. Social Impacts
7. Planning and Managing Change in Tourism

Introduction to Travel and Tourism (Travel & Tourism)
Tourism Geography (Travel & Tourism)

This new text builds upon the success of the classic Mathieson & Wall original Tourism: economic, physical and social impacts to provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the consequences of tourism. The authors address the nature of tourism and tourists and the economic, environmental and social impacts that result from their activities. It provides a unique blend of theoretical principles and practice for a balanced approach to tourism.

 Key features

• new approaches to impact assessment are considered as well as a rethinking of tourism impacts

• uses international case studies and models to illustrate key concepts

• wide range of examples from both the developing and developed world

• incorporates the latest insights and literature

• contains new chapters on frameworks for analysis and sustainable developments

• contains an extensive bibliography and subject, place and author indexes to permit easy access to information

This text will be essential reading to students, academics and practitioners of tourism, leisure, hospitality, geography, management, business studies and the wider social sciences.

Geoffrey Wall is Professor of Geography at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Alister Mathieson  is Dean, School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Toronto, Canada.

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