Summary
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This is a critical introduction to the relations between tourism, tourists, and tourism spaces. It fuses economic and cultural perspectives to explain how tourism is dependent on place and space, while at the same time as defining those places and spaces. Examining different levels of scale - from local to global - Tourism and Tourism Spaces is informed by the discussion of three key processes: - production and consumption of tourist spaces - consumption and commodification of tourist experiences - construction and reconstruction of tourist spaces Each chapter engages with different theoretical perspectives; is illustrated with comparative examples and case studies; uses tables, boxes and figures throughout; and concludes with a summary. An integrated and systematic review of a range of theoretical positions - that integrates economic and cultural - Tourism and Tourism Spaces will be a key resource for students of geography, sociology, management studies, hospitality studies, and leisure studies.
Production and Regulation
Production and Regulation
The Nature of Tourism Production
There are a number of distinctive features of tourism that play a major role in shaping its production and consumption. This chapter outlines some of them and then proceeds to examine the following themes: the nature of tourism commodification; the extent to which tourism production and consumption are determined by capitalist relationships, with illustrations of how these vary, between mature liberal market economies and less developed and emerging market economies; the insights from applying regulation theory to tourism; and the extent to which globalization undermines the utility of regulation theory, given that the latter tends to assume the primacy of the national state. Below we consider the distinctiveness of tourism production.
Tourism is, above all, place-specific, and it ...
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