Transport and Tourism

3. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-273-71970-0
Verlag: Pearson

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 920 g

investigates the complex relationship between transport provision and tourism, and adopts a global perspective throughout.  Maintaining its 4-part structure, this substantially updated third edition addresses all the key issues and new challenges that transport providers, decision-makers, managers and tourists face in the use, operation and management of tourist transport against the backdrop of rapid technological change in the 21st century.  T remains the leading, authoritative text in the field; topics covered in this latest edition include up-to-date and contemporary international case material and examples addressing key areas of current concern. Topics covered include the ongoing financial crisis in the US airline industry, challenges posed by low-cost airlines and other innovative forms of transport provision, the climate change and sustainability debate, problems of managing car-based tourism, crime, safety, and security, and the e-travel revolution.  A completely revised future prospects chapter emphasises good practice examples and innovative schemes for tourist transport provision

Transport and Tourism is an essential text for students on travel and tourism degrees and will be of key interest to students and practitioners in related fields also including strategic management and geography. 

Autoren/Hrsg.

Page, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of plates
List of tables
Preface to the third edition
Acknowledgements

Section 1: UNDERSTANDING TOURIST TRANSPORT: CONCEPTS AND METHODS OF ANALYSIS
1: Introduction
2: Understanding contemporary issues and approaches in transport and tourism in the twenty-first century
3: The role of government policy and tourist transport: regulation versus privatisation

Section 2: THE ANALYSIS, USE AND PROVISION OF TOURIST TRANSPORT
4: Analysing the demand for tourist travel
5: Analysing supply issues in tourist transport

Sec tion 3: MANAING TOURIST TRANSPORT PROVISION
6: Managing supply issues in tourist transport
7: Managing tourist transport infrastructure: the role of the airport
8: The human and environmental impact of tourist transport: towards sustainable tourist travel?
9: Global challenges for tourism and transport: how will climate change and energy affect the future of tourist travek? Susanne Becken, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Section 4: THE FUTURE
10: Prospect and challenges for tourst transport provision: global, national and local issues

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Page is the Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley Chair in Tourism in the Department of Marketing, School of Management, University of Stirling.