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This book aims to unite theory and practice in the field of destination marketing. It attempts to reconcile the gap between the academic literature on urban destination marketing and the manner in which it is actually undertaken by destination marketing organisations (DMOs). While analysing and critically assessing the current destination marketing paradigm, the author outlines the basis for a paradigm change. The new theory accommodates the anomalies and counter-instances associated with the existing paradigm and addresses the question of what in the future might best underpin urban DMO marketing operations. The book contains 21 in-depth interviews with senior DMO executives to allow practitioners to describe in their own words how they conduct their destination marketing activities.

City promotion -- Europe. --- City promotion --- Tourism -- Europe -- Marketing. --- Tourism --- DMOs. --- destination branding. --- destination marketing organisations. --- destination marketing paradigm. --- destination marketing. --- theory and paradigm change. --- theory of competitive advantage. --- tourism marketing. --- urban destination marketing operations. --- urban destination marketing. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Boosterism (Place promotion) --- Cities and towns --- Promotion of cities --- Promotion of towns --- Town promotion --- Municipal government --- Place marketing --- Marketing. --- Economic aspects --- Marketing --- Public relations --- urban destination marketing operations .

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Tourist attractions constitute the metaphorical 'heart' of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, how we perceive them and how we can enhance our understanding of what attracts us as tourists. The volume reaches beyond current ideas about the ways tourist attractions are created, shaped and packaged. It focuses on the importance and subjective nature of identity, memory, narrative and performance in the tourist experience to find new ways of analysing and managing tourist attractions. The book will appeal to researchers and students in tourism and destination management and heritage and indigenous tourism.

Tourism --- Tourists --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Sightseers --- Travelers --- Psychological aspects. --- Deconstructing Tourist Attractions. --- Destination Management. --- Indigenous Studies. --- Narrative Analysis. --- Phenomenology. --- Post-colonial Discourse. --- Tourist / Visitor Attraction.

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Lakes are an essential element of some of the world's most popular tourism destinations. However, increased pressure from visitors and the tourism industry as well as from other, sometimes competing, land and water uses has made the sustainable development of lakes increasingly problematic. This book represents the first attempt to bring together some of the key elements of lake tourism within a single volume in order to present the urgent need for an integrated approach to lacustrine tourism systems management.The book presents comprehensive overviews of lake tourism including branding and marketing, visitor management and planning, historical and cultural dimensions, and environmental quality. The volume is international in scope with cases from Europe, North America and Oceania. The book concludes by noting that tourism needs to be established as a complimentary land and water use at a time when lakes and their watersheds are facing challenges in the form of climate and environmental change, increasing numbers of visitors as well as an overall increase in competing demands for water.

Lakes. --- climate change. --- destination management. --- environmental change. --- lacustrine tourism. --- lake tourism. --- sustainable management. --- sustainable tourism. --- tourism attractions. --- tourism management. --- visitor management. --- water tourism.

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This book explores the various aspects of coffee culture around the globe, relating the rich history of this beverage and the surroundings where it is produced and consumed to coffee destination development and to the visitor experience. Coffee and tourism venues explored range from the café districts of Australia, Canada, Germany and New Zealand to the traditional and touristic coffee houses of Malaysia and Cyprus to coffee-producing destinations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. This is a must-read for those interested in understanding coffee in relation to hospitality and tourism. Readers should gain a new appreciation of the potential for coffee-related tourism to contribute to both destination development and pro-poor tourism objectives.

Coffee --- Coffee industry --- Culture and tourism. --- Heritage tourism. --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- cafe culture. --- coffee culture. --- coffee. --- cultural change. --- destination development. --- pro-poor tourism. --- visitor experience.

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Chris Ryan, as editor of Tourism Management, the author of several books and a researcher with an international reputation, has revisited his book, Recreational Tourism, after a gap of more than ten years. This new edition is an appraisal of that which is still thought to be valid, but with a significant updating in the light of new research. The structure of the book has been slightly changed to better reflect, not only current thinking, but the nature of existing texts and the greater degree of specialisation that now exists in the tourism literature. The book is primarily concerned with the determinants of tourism demand, the implications of that demand, and the problems posed for those who, in whatever capacity, seek to manage tourism at the destination level. After a new chapter that presents a history of tourism where the discerning reader can see that which is old and that which is new, the rest of the book analyses social, economic and psychological determinants of demand and discusses the broad aspects of destination change and the challenges presented to those responsible for managing such change. The book represents a learned introduction to the subject, a review of the developing literature and thinking that can be classified as broadly postpositivistic. In a curious manner it represents a return to the conventional, but within a new awareness of competing interpretations of one of the leading economic drivers of the new millennium.

Tourism. --- Travel & Tourism --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Economic aspects --- destination change. --- destination lifecycle. --- economic impacts of tourism. --- recreational tourism. --- social impacts of tourism. --- tourism demand. --- tourist demand. --- tourist resort zone.