Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management: Vol 3
Published on 15. June 1991
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-0-471-94511-6 (ISBN)
Description
The annual publication is a hardback review of research in tourism, recreation, hospitality-management, hotel and catering and related fields, with an emphasis on fields of rapid advance, international importance and major academic or professional concern. Each volume consists of 6-8 major reviews of a substantive field by a leading figure, and a number of shorter papers dealing with topics of current importance or reviewing "state of the art" development. There are also occassional invited contributions from relevant cognate fields, like economics, food science, communications and geography. Although the focus is on research , contributions are invited to tie their papers to the needs of professionals in the appropriate fields. This is the third volume in the series.
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Series
Edition
Volume 3 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-94511-6 (9780471945116)
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Content
The economics of tourism, M.T.Sinclair; the development and application of multiplier analysis, B.H.Archer and J.E.Fletcher; the sociology of tourism, J.Urry; understanding holiday choice, B.Goodall; an examination of the consumer behaviour process related to tourism, D.C.Gilbert; visitor attractions - their management and contribution to tourism, T.R.Stevens; the comparative analysis of tourist attractions, P.Johnson and B.Thomas; statistical trends in tourism up to 1989, J.Latham; tourism and the Brazilian economy, W.Rabahy and D.Ruschmann; tourism in East Europe - a new challenge, S.Stetic; sport and tourism, S.A.Glyptis; the economics of sport and sports in the community - some international comparisons, M.F.Collins; strategic management in the hospitality industry - a literature review, M.D.Olsen; an analysis of hotel labour markets, M.Riley; the UK hospitality and tourism industry - an overview of the issues affecting the supply of education and training in the 1990s.