Author Description

During the past few decades tourism has emerged as one of the world's major industries, exceeding in importance many manufacturing industries and other services in terms of sales, employment and foreign currency earnings. Despite the publication of a growing number of books on tourism covering geographical, marketing and regional aspects, few take a general analytical but international approach to the tourism industry. This book aims to fill this gap in the literature, concentrating particularly on the internationalizaiton of the tourism industry and the interaction between it, the consumer and destination areas. Insights are provided from a range of disciplines: economics, geography, psychology, anthropology and sociology. This book will therefore interest academics and students of tourism, business and management, as well as planners and practitioners in the tourism sector.