Future Tourism: Political, Social and Economic Challenges

Автор: Leigh, J., C. Webster and S. Ivanov (eds.)

 

Future Tourism: Political, Social and Economic Challenges, London: Routledge (ISBN: 978-0-415-50902-2)

This book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is threatening society, and makes suggestions on what the impact will be and how tourism will be changed to integrate with the new socio-economics of a newly emerging society with its novel peculiar challenges and opportunities in a post-energy era.

The book draws on the views of leading thinkers in tourism and considers a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives facing the tourism industry for the first time in one volume: dwindling energy, new technology, security (like war and terrorism), political economy, sustainability, and human resources. By critically reviewing these social and economic challenges in a global scale, the book helps to create a comprehensive view of future tourism in the unfolding and challenging society of the third millennium.

This innovative and significant volume will be valuable reading for all current and future tourism professionals.

 

Table of contents:

1 Introduction: What future for tourism?

CRAIG WEBSTER AND JAMES LEIGH

 

PART I

Global changes and their impact on future tourism

2 ‘Peak Oil’ confronts society and tourism: A futuristic view

JAMES LEIGH

3 The political economy of tourism in the future

CRAIG WEBSTER AND STANISLAV IVANOV

 

PART II

Political and social trends and future tourism

4 Security and the future of tourism

MICHAEL CLANCY

5 Wellbeing, equity, sustainable development and social

tourism in twenty-first century Europe

CHRIS STONE

6 Shapers and shifters for the future of travel and tourism

SUSANNE BECKEN

7 Tourism and quality of life

NICOS KARTAKOULLIS, GEORGE KARLIS, KOSTAS KARADAKIS,

AMANDA SHARAF, AND CRAIG WEBSTER

8 Through a glass darkly: The future of tourism is personal

C. MICHAEL HALL

 

PART III

Managerial issues and future tourism

9 Tourism in a technology-dependent world

ULRIKE GRETZEL

10 Human resource issues in the new millennium

SCOTT RICHARDSON

11 Sustainability: An issue for the tourism industry in the

new millennium?

WERNER GRONAU

12 Tomorrow’s tourist and the case study of New Zealand

IAN YEOMAN

 

PART IV

Concluding thoughts

13 Future tourism: Where to now?

JAMES LEIGH AND CRAIG WEBSTER