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This is the strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the currentstate of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understandingof tourism. For its range of topics depth of analyses and distinction of itscontributors nothing is comparable Professor Dean MacCannell University ofCalifornia DavisThe breadth of vision and sweep of accounts is remarkable and range of topicslaudable... a rare combination of the authoritative the challenging andstimulating Professor Mike Crang Durham UniversityTourism Studies developed as a subbranch of older disciplines in the socialsciences such as anthropology sociology and economics and newer appliedfields of study in hospitality management civil rights and transport studies.This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essentialresource for teachers and students to determine the roots key issues andagenda of tourism studies.Among the key features covered in the book are The evolution and position of tourism studies The relationship of tourism to culture Route maps to the ecology and economics of tourism Special events destination management and tourism Methodologies of study Tourism and transport Tourism and heritage Tourism and postcolonialism Global tourist business operationsRanging from local to global issues and from questions of management to theethical dilemmas of tourism this is a comprehensive critically informedconstructively organized overview of the field. It draws together an interdisciplinary group of contributors who are among the most celebrated names inthe field. It will be quickly recognized as a landmark in the new and expandingfield of tourism studies. «