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Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management

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Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management by Peter Mason explores the complex interactions between tourism impacts, planning, and management. Now in its Fourth Edition, this comprehensive text addresses the challenges posed by multifaceted tourism effects and examines key stakeholders including tourists, host communities, and industry professionals. The book covers contemporary issues such as overtourism, dark tourism, child sex tourism in South East Asia, festival tourism, regional development, and Artificial Intelligence, supported by updated data, new case studies, and an enhanced Companion Website with multimedia resources.
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This accessible yet academically rigorous book is essential reading for tourism students and professionals seeking a thorough understanding of managing tourism impacts effectively.

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Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three crucial areas of tourism - impacts, planning and management.

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Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text that links the three crucial areas of tourism: impacts, planning, and management.

Tourism impacts are multifaceted and are therefore difficult to plan for and manage. This title examines all the key players involved—be they tourists, host communities, or industry members—and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism impacts successfully.

Now in its Fourth Edition, this bestselling text has been fully revised to include:

  • New material on overtourism, dark tourism, child sex tourism in Southeast Asia, festival tourism, regional development, and artificial intelligence
  • Updated tourism data and statistics
  • New case studies on the economic impacts of tourism in France, the 20 places most reliant on tourism in 2018, Fáilte Ireland’s survey of good environmental practice in the industry, corporate social responsibility, as well as the above topical issues in tourism
  • An updated Companion Website that includes PowerPoints, video and web links, and a case study archive

The text is written in an accessible style and includes a plethora of features that engage and aid understanding. This accessible yet academically rigorous introduction to tourism impacts, planning, and management is essential reading for all tourism students.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367221607

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 July 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 4th edition

Illustration: 24 Tables, black and white; 28 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 41 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 750g

Pages: 318

About the Author

Peter Mason is Visiting Professor of Tourism at London South Bank University, has a fractional position at London Metropolitan University and teaches regularly at the Luxury Hotel School, Paris. He has taught for 45 years, 31 of which have been in higher education institutions (HEIs). This book is based largely on his own research and teaching at HEIs in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, France and the Middle East.

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