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" Tourism business frontiers : "
edited by Dimitrios Buhalis and Carlos Costa.
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BL
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1030896
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b785266
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| Title & Author
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Tourism business frontiers : : consumers, products and industry /\ edited by Dimitrios Buhalis and Carlos Costa.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann,, 2006.
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Tourism futures
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1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) :: illustrations, portraits
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0080455913
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: 0750663774
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: 1136353585
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: 1136353631
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: 9780080455914
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: 9780750663779
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: 9781136353581
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: 9781136353628
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: 9781136353635
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0750663774
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of case studies -- Editors -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: New Consumers -- 2 The transformation of consumer behaviour -- Introduction -- Travellers as users of new technologies -- Travellers as co-producers of meaningful experiences -- Travellers as storytellers -- Conclusions: the new traveller and the future of travel behaviour -- 3 New and emerging markets -- Introduction -- Definitions and approach -- The evolution of tourism markets -- Tourism markets today -- The dimensions of future tourism markets -- Conclusions -- 4 Third-age tourism -- Introduction -- Setting the scene -- ageing populations and tourism demand -- What is currently known about senior travel? -- Emerging issues and trends in senior travel -- Tourism practice -- A vision for the future of senior travel -- 5 Youth and adventure tourism -- Introduction -- The rise of youth and adventure tourism -- Global market trends -- Enclaves as experience factories -- Future developments -- A coherent niche? -- 6 Domestic and visiting friends and relatives tourism -- Introduction -- Defining visiting friends and relatives -- State of the art -- VFR research -- Future directions -- 7 Conference tourism -- MICE market and business tourism -- Introduction -- A complex industry -- Emerging consumer trends -- Future trends -- The future MICE industry -- Conclusions -- 8 The moralisation of tourism, and the ethical alternatives -- Introduction -- Mass tourism -- the problem -- What is the moralisation of tourism? -- New moral tourism -- a pervasive agenda -- The commercial sector -- Demand for new moral tourism? -- Conclusion -- Part Two: New Products -- 9 Re-engineering established products and destinations -- Introduction -- Changing patterns of consumption -- External and internal forces -- Vulnerability enhanced through powerful intermediaries -- Fighting stagnation and/or decline -- Best practice scenarios -- Conclusions: constantly revitalizing destinations -- 10 Urbanization and second-home tourism -- Introduction -- Definitions of second-home tourism and residential tourism, and key stakeholders -- Analysing second-home tourism -- New products for second-home tourism -- Implications for tourism destination management -- Conclusions and policy implications -- 11 The influence of fashion and accessibility on destination consumption -- Introduction -- Fashion as a key factor in the consumption of destinations -- Accessibility as a key factor in the consumption of destinations -- Vision for the future -- 12 Experience design in tourism -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Tourism dramaturgy -- From experience design to product development -- Conclusions -- 13 Nature-based products, ecotourism and adventure tourism -- Introduction -- Concepts of nature-based tourism -- Nature-based tourism and ecotourism -- Adventure tourism -- Comparing nature-based, eco- and adventure tourism -- Critical issues in NEAT tourism and trends -- Conclusions and future trends -- 14 Sport and events tourism -- Introduction -- Definition -- Forms of sport tourism --T$
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| Abstract
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As the global tourism industry continues to expand and to become more complex, it is vital that those in the industry are equipped with a thorough knowledge of all topics involved. New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues provides this comprehensive coverage and more. Written by a team of globally renowned thinkers and researchers, it not only provides a brief historical overview of tourism, but delves deeper, to discuss emerging trends, consumer types and looks at the way the industry itself is changing and developing. It provides the manager of tomorrow with the ability to look beyond normal planning horizons and identify potential opportunities from these changes. New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues is part of a two part set with its companion text, Tourism Dynamics, Challenges and Tools: Present and Future Issues which takes the reader on a logical progression to look at issues relating to the external environment in which the tourism industry functions. Both texts thereby provide the reader with a complete set of tools and knowledge recognise the key areas of growth and change, and the ability to use the new tools and technologies available to develop them and maximise business potential. * Explores vital issues and changes related to new consumers, new products and new industry * Provides the manager of tomorrow with the ability to look beyond normal planning horizons * Written by an international team of contributors, drawing on a variety of exemplary cases * A companion text to Tourism Management Dynamics.
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As the global tourism industry continues to expand and to become more complex, it is vital that those in the industry are equipped with a thorough knowledge of all topics involved. New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues provides this comprehensive coverage and more. Written by a team of globally renowned thinkers and researchers, it not only provides a brief historical overview of tourism, but delves deeper, to discuss emerging trends, consumer types and looks at the way the industry itself is changing and developing. It provides the manager of tomorrow with the.
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Tourism-- Forecasting.
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Tourism.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.
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Tourism-- Forecasting.
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Tourism.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.4791
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| LC Classification
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G155.A1T58954 2006eb
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Buhalis, Dimitrios.
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Costa, Carlos,1964-
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