Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends.

Organised into four parts, the handbook begins with an introductory section that explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored, including sustainable urban tourism, overtourism and urbanisation, the impact of terrorism, visitor–host interactions, as well as reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In Part II the marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities are considered, exploring topics such as destination marketing and branding, business travellers and exhibition hosting. This section combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology developments for tourism cities, examining their supply and impact on different travellers, from open-air markets to creative waterfronts, from social media to smart cities. The final Part offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist tourism, including geology and ecology-based tourism, socialist heritage and post-communist destination tourism.

This handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners, as well as examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of urban tourism and tourism cities. The handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in urban tourism, heritage studies, human geography, urban studies and urban planning, sociology, psychology and business studies.

Alastair M. Morrison, PhD is Research Professor in Marketing, Events and Tourism at the Business School, University of Greenwich, UK. Formerly, he was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, USA, specialising in the area of tourism and hospitality marketing, and President of the International Tourism Studies Association. Alastair is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Cities. He is a member of the Experts Committee of the World Tourism Cities Federation.

J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak is Associate Professor of Tourism and Events at the University of Greenwich, UK, deputy leader of the university’s Tourism Research Centre, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Cities. Andres serves on the editorial boards of various journals, including the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research; Sustainability; Journal of Tourism Futures; and the Journal of Place Management and Development, among others. He is a member of the Experts Committee of the World Tourism Cities Federation.