Alan A. Lew, Ph.D., AICP, is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation at Northern Arizona University where he teaches courses in geography, tourism and urban planning. He has edited nine books and published over 50 book chapters and journal articles. He is the Editor-in-chief of the journal Tourism Geographies, and has been teaching web-based courses in sustainable tourism, geography and urban planning since the mid-1990s. Dr. Dallen Timothy is an Associate Professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. He holds a B.Sc. degree in geography from Brigham Young University, an M.A. in geography from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Waterloo. His research interests in tourism include heritage, community-based planning, political boundaries and supranationalism, shopping and consumption, peripheral and rural regions, less-developed countries, and religiously-motivated travel.
Summary
"World Geography of Travel and Tourism addresses the need to understand the cultural, environmental, historical and political context in which international tourism takes place. The expert author team has included major themes and issues in tourism, and positioned them in a regional context. In this way, this text takes a major step into a more analytic approach to global tourism while still providing a clear account of the geography of travel and tourism." "World Geography of Travel and Tourism makes vital reading for any student seeking an introduction to tourism geography and indeed, international tourism and global geography as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Europe & Eurasia
Section 3 The Old World: Central Asia Through Africa
