Tourist Destinations: Structure and Synthesis - Couverture rigide

Pearce, Douglas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789245834 ISBN 13 : 9781789245837

Editeur : CABI Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Different facets of destinations have been studied from diverse perspectives using multiple concepts and a range of approaches. As a result, destination research today has become increasingly fragmented as studies have become more specialized. There is a need for a more integrated approach, one which systematically draws together these different research threads to provide a more comprehensive and coherent picture and fuller understanding of destinations, their structure and how they function. This book provides such a synthesis by critically reviewing a wide range of international research and incorporating in one volume many different facets of destinations from studies which have appeared in related but often divergent literatures. It further enhances this critique by analysing recent data. This material is drawn together around two major structural themes: -spatial structure, which concerns the physical location, distribution, configuration and inter-connectedness of products, services and actors and the factors which underlie the resultant patterns of these. -organizational structure, which focuses on the diverse configurations and the ways in which multiple actors, collectively and individually, come together, interact and behave to produce the experiences sought by tourists. The originality and contribution of this work lies in the systematic examination and combination of these two themes across destinations from the national to the local scale which produces a more comprehensive understanding of destinations and results in a more complete integrative framework of them.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

I completed a doctorat de troisieme cycle at the Universite d'Aix-Marseille II in 1975, was on the staff of the Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury (1976-1999) and then held the position of professor of tourism management at Victoria University of Wellington until I retired in 2015. I have also been a visiting professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universite de Paris IV (Paris-Sorbonne) and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Tourism has been the focus of my research and teaching throughout my career. My research on tourism has wide-ranging, substantial and internationally recognized. Basic research dealing with theoretical and methodological issues has been complemented by more applied work directed at problems facing the tourism industry. My most recent research has focused on destinations and destination management. Research in New Zealand has been complemented by studies in Europe, the South Pacific, South East Asia and Chile. I have published over one hundred scholarly papers on tourism, including eight books and edited volumes. My books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. External evaluations show my research has been consistently of a very high standard. In 2004 I received a Victoria University of Wellington Excellence in Research Award. I received an A, the highest level, in the national 2003, 2009 and 2012 Performance Based Research Fund evaluations. In retirement I have continued to write and be active as a visiting professor and keynote speaker.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CABI Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789245834
• ISBN 13: 9781789245837
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible