Tourism

Volume One: The Nature and Structure of Tourism
The articles in this volume explores the fundamental ideas that have informed our understanding of the nature and organisation of tourism, including the meanings and representations of tourism, tourist motivations and values, theories of tourism supply and demand, market segmentation and typologies of tourists and tourism, the organization of tourism.
Volume Two: The Experience of Tourism
Volume two brings together papers that consider the experience of tourism, both from the perspective of the tourist and that of the host communities that tourists visit. It focuses on tourist behaviours and experiences, democratisation and the emergence of mass tourism, theories of cultural and social impact of tourism, issues of authenticity and commodification.
Volume Three: Tourism, Development and Sustainability
The focus of this volume is tourism, development processes and the quest for sustainability. The principal themes explored are resort formation and development, tourism and economic development processes, tourism development and environmental impacts, principles and approaches to sustainable tourism.
Volume Four: New Directions and Alternative Tourism
The final volume looks towards the emergence of alternative forms of tourism and the restructuring of tourism within a globalized economy. The papers discuss the notion of new directions in both a spatial, but more importantly, a sectoral sense, together with the degree to which new forms of tourism and tourist identities are now emerging.