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Encyclopedia of tourism, chief editor, Jafar Jafari

eng

Includes bibliographical references

index present

non fiction

Encyclopedia of tourism

bibliographyencyclopedias

42690103

chief editor, Jafar Jafari

"In recent years tourism has expanded rapidly into a global phenomenon. It is now a major service industry of great economic importance having a significant impact on a wide range of issues such as the environment, leisure and transportation. This text is a reference source comprising over 1000 entries and written by an international team of more than 300 contributors. It provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of basic definitions, concepts, perspectives and institutions embraced by tourism and consolidates research carried out in the field to the end of the 1990s. The entries reflect the multidisciplinary nature of academic exploration within tourism; including articles from the areas of anthropology, economics, education, geography, history, management, marketing, political science, psychology and more. Coverage includes: general issues and concepts specific to tourism - accommodation, consumerism, gaming, globalization, policy, seasonality; definition of key terms and acronyms - ecoresort, professional native, room nights; significant institutions, associations and journals - Caribbean Tourism Organization, Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques, WTO, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Tourism Studies; country specific tourism profiles - Greece, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, South Africa; trends and patterns of tourism development and growth - community development, demography, ecologically sustainable tourism, forecasting, zoning; and tourism as an industry with many businesses - adventure tourism, business travel, convention bureaux, hospitality, marketing, public relations. Cross-referencing helps readers to make links between diverse aspects of tourism studies."--Jacket