The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446208753 ISBN 13: 9781446208755

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Tourist Studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies. This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues, and agenda of Tourism Studies.

About this title

About the Author:

I am Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage - a major inter-disciplinary research and graduate Institute working with the World Heritage Site and associated museums of Ironbridge. My interests lie in how we produce and consume categories of heritage within changing cultural and cross-cultural contexts. I am particularly interested in how tourists experience the past and how tourism works with heritage to shape identities at the individual and collective level.

Review:

This is the strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of analyses, and distinction of its contributors, nothing is comparable. It will be greeted enthusiastically as an indispensable reference source. -- Professor Dean MacCannell

The breadth of vision and sweep of accounts is remarkable, and range of topics laudable... a rare combination of the authoritative, the challenging and stimulating. -- Professor Mike Crang

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies is a really useful and helpful book that gives a comprehensive and thorough overview of all aspects of tourism studies. The book is addressed to a wide range of people, including students, academics and professionals in tourism. It could be used either as a textbook or as an indispensable source of references... a valuable acquisition to the tourism section of any library. -- Miroslava Dimitrova

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1446208753
• ISBN 13: 9781446208755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 736
• Editor: Jamal Tazim