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Tourism business frontiers : consumers, products and industry /
As the global tourism industry continues to expand and to become more complex, it is vital that those in the industry are equipped with a thorough knowledge of all topics involved. New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues provides this comprehensive coverage and more. W...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann,
2006.
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| Colección: | Tourism futures
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of case studies
- Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part One: New Consumers
- 2 The transformation of consumer behaviour
- Introduction
- Travellers as users of new technologies
- Travellers as co-producers of meaningful experiences
- Travellers as storytellers
- Conclusions: the new traveller and the future of travel behaviour
- 3 New and emerging markets
- Introduction
- Definitions and approach
- The evolution of tourism markets
- Tourism markets today
- The dimensions of future tourism markets
- Conclusions
- 4 Third-age tourism
- Introduction
- Setting the scene
- ageing populations and tourism demand
- What is currently known about senior travel?
- Emerging issues and trends in senior travel
- Tourism practice
- A vision for the future of senior travel
- 5 Youth and adventure tourism
- Introduction
- The rise of youth and adventure tourism
- Global market trends
- Enclaves as experience factories
- Future developments
- A coherent niche?
- 6 Domestic and visiting friends and relatives tourism
- Introduction
- Defining visiting friends and relatives
- State of the art
- VFR research
- Future directions
- 7 Conference tourism
- MICE market and business tourism
- Introduction
- A complex industry
- Emerging consumer trends
- Future trends
- The future MICE industry
- Conclusions
- 8 The moralisation of tourism, and the ethical alternatives
- Introduction
- Mass tourism
- the problem
- What is the moralisation of tourism?
- New moral tourism
- a pervasive agenda
- The commercial sector
- Demand for new moral tourism?
- Conclusion
- Part Two: New Products
- 9 Re-engineering established products and destinations
- Introduction
- Changing patterns of consumption
- External and internal forces
- Vulnerability enhanced through powerful intermediaries
- Fighting stagnation and/or decline
- Best practice scenarios
- Conclusions: constantly revitalizing destinations
- 10 Urbanization and second-home tourism
- Introduction
- Definitions of second-home tourism and residential tourism, and key stakeholders
- Analysing second-home tourism
- New products for second-home tourism
- Implications for tourism destination management
- Conclusions and policy implications
- 11 The influence of fashion and accessibility on destination consumption
- Introduction
- Fashion as a key factor in the consumption of destinations
- Accessibility as a key factor in the consumption of destinations
- Vision for the future
- 12 Experience design in tourism
- Introduction
- Theoretical background
- Tourism dramaturgy
- From experience design to product development
- Conclusions
- 13 Nature-based products, ecotourism and adventure tourism
- Introduction
- Concepts of nature-based tourism
- Nature-based tourism and ecotourism
- Adventure tourism
- Comparing nature-based, eco- and adventure tourism
- Critical issues in NEAT tourism and trends
- Conclusions and future trends
- 14 Sport and events tourism
- Introduction
- Definition
- Forms of sport tourism
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