Worldwide Destinations
The Geography of Travel and Tourism
4th Edition
Published on 17. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-7506-5997-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism" provides comprehensive coverage of worldwide tourism destinations, examining the basic principles underlying the geography of tourist demand, supply and transportation, together with a broad survey of world tourism generating and destination regions. A leading textbook in tourism field, now in its fourth edition, it includes new cases (Sydney Olympics, satellite accounts, Athens Olympics, 9/11 and the Bali bombing) and new topics (security, terrorism, and selling destinations).
Reviews / Votes
"...the ONLY decent tourism geography text on the market." Professor Susan Ryan, California University of Pennsylvania This is an excellent required text for any undergraduate tourism geography course and an essential reference for tourism geographers at the graduate level. The structure of the text allows for those new to tourism studies, geography or tourism geography to quickly survey essential concepts before moving onto the regional tourism geography section. The book covers every country in the world and offers detail from a supply and demand pespective.- Susan Ryan, Department of Earth Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, California, Pennsylvania, USAMore details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
HND and first year undergraduate students studying tourism, tourism management and related courses. Also those studying geography at HND/AVCE and first year undergrads. FE and Tourism A' level students.
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-5997-0 (9780750659970)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Brian Boniface | Robyn Cooper | Chris Cooper
Worldwide Destinations
The geography of travel and tourism
Book
03/2009
5th Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann
€39.67
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Persons
By Other Chris Cooper and Brian Boniface
Content
The elements of travel and tourism geography: An introduction to the geography of tourism; The geography of demand for tourism; The geography of resources for tourism; Climate and tourism; The geography of transport for tourism; The regional geography of tourism: An introduction to the tourism geography of Europe; An introduction to the tourism geography of Britain; The tourism geography of England and the Channel Islands; The tourism geography of Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man; The tourism geography of Ireland; Scandinavia; The Benelux countries; Austria, Switzerland and Germany; France; Spain and Portugal; Italy; Malta, Greece and Cyprus; Eastern Europe and the CIS; The Middle East; Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean; South Asia; East Asia; Australasia; North America; Latin America and the Caribbean; The future geography of travel and tourism; Index