"This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns. The hybridisation of tourist practices and ordinary practices is explored through a range of international case studies and...

"This timely volume brings together various issues in Muslim consumer cultures and provides a comprehensive account of Muslim tourism and tourist behaviour. This book makes a substantial contribution to an improved understanding of Muslim travel culture and will be required reading for anyone...

"The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets,...

Introduction : tourism in Japan - from the past to the present / Richard Sharpley & Kumi Kato -- Tourism research on Japan : overview of major trends : Japanese and English-language materials / Yumiko Horita & Kumi Kato -- Urban development and tourism in Japanese cities / Yumiko Horita --...

Introduction : degrowth and tourism : implications and challenges / Linda Lundmark, Jundan Jasmine Zhang & C. Michael Hall -- Decommodification as a socially embedded practice : the example of lifestyle enterprise in animal-based tourism / Erika Andersson Cederholm & Carina Sjöholm -- Lifestyle...

"Place is integral to tourism. In tourism, almost all issues can ultimately be traced back to human-place interactions and human-place relationships. Sense of place, also referred to as place attachment, topophilia, and community sentiment, has received significant attention in tourism studies...

"This timely and significant book explores the characteristics and complexities of Asian urban tourism, considering the extent to which Western paradigms can be transferred to Asian settings and the striking contrasts that exist within the region."

Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in...