Encyclopedia of Tourism
Editors: Jafari, Jafar, Xiao, Honggen (Eds.)
- Collects the essence of the world's leading tourism research with its application in practice
- Provides authoritative definitions and explanations on all important tourism keywords
- Comprehensively treats major concepts in the largest industry worldwide
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- About this Reference Work
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This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. More than 700 contributions of 766 internationally renowned experts from 113 countries provide a definitive access to the knowledge in the field of tourism, hospitality, recreation and related fields. All actors in this field will find reliable and up to date definitions and explanations of the key terms of tourism in this reference work. Tourism is the largest industry worldwide and is the main source of income for many countries. With both, this practical impact of tourism and a rapidly developing academic field, with a growing number of university courses and degrees in tourism, and a flourishing research, this encyclopedia is the epicenter of this emerging and developing discipline.
- About the authors
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Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research: A Social Sciences Journal; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science (book) Series; Co-Chief Editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice book series; Chief Editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET: Tourism Research Information Network; and Founding President, International Academy for the Study of Tourism. A cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Minnesota, USA) and a hotel administration graduate (BS and MS, Cornell University, USA), with an honorary doctorate from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain) and the recipient of the 2005 United Nations World Tourism Organization Ulysses Award, he is Visiting Professor of the Universitat do Algarve (Portugal) and Sun Yat-sen University (China), international Program Director of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), and faculty member of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Department of Hospitality and Tourism (USA). Honggen Xiao is Associate Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has had undergraduate (Fujian Normal University, China) and postgraduate (Soochow University, China) trainings in linguistics and literature, and has also earned his Master’s and PhD degrees in Recreation and Leisure Studies (University of Waterloo, Canada). His prior work encompasses associate professorship and directorship of The Department of Tourism at Huaqiao University, China, and visiting professorship in The College of Tourism at Rikkyo University, Japan. He advises doctoral studies, and has teaching and research interest in knowledge development, tourism and culture, leisure and society, and China tourism. He is also Subject Index Editor of Annals of Tourism Research.
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Encyclopedia of Tourism
- Editors
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- Jafar Jafari
- Honggen Xiao
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eReference ISBN
- 978-3-319-01384-8
- Print + eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-01385-5
- Print ISBN
- 978-3-319-01383-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- LVIII, 1168
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 4 b/w illustrations, 209 illustrations in colour
- Topics