Overview
- Introduces the concept of transition into the study of tourism geographies
- Assesses the relationship between event-driven change and tourism geographies
- Addresses an international readership with case studies from Europe, America, Asia, and Africa
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Geographies of Tourism and Global Change (GTGC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the relationship between transition and tourism geographies on a global scale, discussing how tourism has been used as a tool to recover from decline or to manage change caused by event-driven, rapid transitions in a region’s economy, politics or environment. With case studies from Europe, America, Asia and Africa, it provides examples of how specific communities and industries around the globe have reacted for better or worse. It also includes analyses of shifts within the tourism industry itself and examines the complex issues arising for localities that have to face the demands and standards of an increasingly globally interlinked tourism industry. From Whistler to Angola, casino gaming in Colorado to art tourism in Japan, the contributors investigate such factors as tourism-induced community change; the social and economic impacts second-home owners have on rural communities in the developing world; reconstruction of local tourism systems after crisis events such as wars; and the competitiveness of ski areas in light of climate change. Overall, the book offers a thoughtful study of the role of geographical and temporal scales for tourism during periods of unprecedented transition, equipping readers with new ways of conceptualizing change and adaptation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marek Więckowski is a professor at the Insitute of the Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 2014 he was nominated as the director of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris. During his post-doc program (2002-2004) he worked as a researcher at the ENS LSH in Lyon (France). Więckowski prepared his PhD thesis on cross-border cooperation between Poland and Slovakia and his habilitation on tourism development in the Polish borderlands. His research interests in tourism include tourism development in borderlands (e.g. relationships between tourism and borders), tourism development in mountains and protected areas, mobility aspects, accessibility to tourism destinations and self-catering accommodation. Today Więckowski is also editor-in-chief for Geographia Polonica.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tourism in Transitions
Book Subtitle: Recovering Decline, Managing Change
Editors: Dieter K. Müller, Marek Więckowski
Series Title: Geographies of Tourism and Global Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64325-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64324-3Published: 08 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87770-9Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64325-0Published: 21 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2366-5610
Series E-ISSN: 2366-5629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 203
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Tourism Management, Regional/Spatial Science, Cultural Heritage, International Political Economy