Tourism Geography
Stephen Williams
London and New York
Routledge Contemporary Human
Geography
Tourism has become one of the most significant forces for change in the world today. Regarded by many as the world’s largest industry, tourism prompts regular mass migrations of people, exploitation of resources, processes of development and inevitable repercussions on places, economies, societies and environments. It is a phenomenon that increasingly demands attention
Tourism Geography reveals how geographic perspectives can inform and illuminate the study of tourism. The book explores the factors that have encouraged the development of both domestic and international forms of tourism, highlighting ways in which patterns of tourism have evolved and continue to evolve. The differing economic, environmental and sociocultural impacts that tourism may exert upon destinations are examined, together with a consideration of ways in which planning for tourism can assist in the regulation of development and produce sustainable forms of tourism.
Drawing on case studies from across the world, Tourism Geography offers a concise review of established geographies of tourism and shows how new patterns in the production and consumption of tourist places are fashioning the new tourism geographies of the twenty-first century
Stephen Williams is Principal Lecturer in Geography at Staffordshire University, UK
Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables ix
List of boxed case studies xi
Acknowledgements xii
Chapter 1 Issues and approaches in the contemporary
geography of tourism 1
Chapter 2 From stagecoach to charter plane: the popularisation
of tourism 21
Chapter 3 Shrinking world—expanding horizons: the changing
spatial patterns of international tourism 42
Chapter 4 Costs or benefits? The physical and economic
development of tourism 69
Chapter 5 Sustainable tourism? The environmental
consequences of tourism development 100
Chapter 6 Strategies for development: the role of planning in
tourism 125
Chapter 7 Cultures and communities: the socio-cultural
relationships between hosts and visitors 150
Chapter 8 Inventing places: cultural constructions and
alternative tourism geographies 172
Bibliography 198
Index 207
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