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from Butterworth Heinemann

Worldwide Destinations: the Geography of Travel and Tourism

ISBN: 0750659971
Publication date: December 2004
Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann
Author: Cooper & Boniface
Format: Paperback, 528 pages

Price: £25.99

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Description:

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism provides comprehensive coverage of worldwide tourism destinations, examining the basic principles underlying the geography of tourist demand, supply and transportation, together with a broad survey of world tourism generating and destination regions.

• Leading textbook in tourism field now in its fourth edition. Includes new cases (Sydney Olympics, satellite accounts, Athens Olympics, 9/11 and the Bali bombing) and new topics (security, terrorism, and selling destinations);
• Provides a comprehensive examination of the basic principles underlying the geography of tourist demand, supply and transportation;
• Presents a broad survey of world tourism generating and destination regions.

Contents :

• The elements of travel and tourism geography
• An introduction to the geography of tourism
• The geography of demand for tourism
• The geography of resources for tourism
• Climate and tourism
• The geography of transport for tourism
• The regional geography of tourism: An introduction to the tourism geography of Europe
• An introduction to the tourism geography of Britain
• The tourism geography of England and the Channel Islands
• The tourism geography of Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man
• The tourism geography of Ireland; Scandinavia; The Benelux countries; Austria, Switzerland and Germany; France; Spain and Portugal; Italy; Malta, Greece and Cyprus; Eastern Europe and the CIS; The Middle East; Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean; South Asia; East Asia; Australasia; North America; Latin America and the Caribbean
• The future geography of travel and tourism
• Index

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