Narrow your search

Library

ULB (2)

VUB (2)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

UNamur (1)


Resource type

book (2)


Language

English (2)


Year
From To Submit

2016 (1)

2007 (1)

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by

Book
Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1845415647 9781845415648 9781845415624 9781845415631 9781845415655 9781845415662 1845415655 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bristol, UK Blue Ridge Summit, PA

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption. 

Backpacker Tourism
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
ISBN: 9781845410773 9781845410780 1845410777 1845410785 9781845410797 1845410793 1281204900 9786611204907 1845413083 Year: 2007 Volume: 13 Publisher: Bristol, UK Blue Ridge Summit, PA

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"The search for new tourism experiences as well as changes in the tourism industry itself has led to new forms of individualised travel and consequentially new forms of backpacker tourism. This volume provides an up-to-date examination of the behaviour, attitudes and motivations of backpacker tourists as well as the growth of the infrastructure behind backpacker tourism phenomenon throughout the world. Drawing upon insights from geography, sociology, anthropology, management and marketing, "Backpacker Tourism" provides theoretically informed case studies of individual destinations of backpackers. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of backpacker tourism as well as those involved in the backpacker tourism industry itself.

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by