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Handbook on Tourism Planning
Timely and accessible, this Handbook offers a thorough account of the growth, development and changes in the field of tourism planning over recent decades. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international range of top scholars, it examines critical issues and challenges facing contemporary tourism planning. Covering research at local, national and global levels, chapters unpack and frame planning strategies in various destinations, expanding the definition of tourism planning to encompass a range of successful case studies.
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Timely and accessible, this Handbook offers a thorough account of the growth, development and changes in the field of tourism planning over recent decades. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international range of top scholars, it examines critical issues and challenges facing contemporary tourism planning.
Covering research at local, national and global levels, chapters unpack and frame planning strategies in various destinations, expanding the definition of tourism planning to encompass a range of successful case studies. The Handbook looks at reimagining tourism planning through sustainability; engaging with forms of creative cultural tourism, the smart city, and rethinking how we see, communicate, understand, and can transform tourist destinations. It also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified pre-existing issues in the tourism sector, including sustainability, policy, and governance.
Providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on tourism planning, this Handbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the field. The diversity of perspectives and action-oriented, project-specific approach also make this an invigorating read for tourism planners and practitioners, particularly those focusing on making tourism practices more sustainable.
Covering research at local, national and global levels, chapters unpack and frame planning strategies in various destinations, expanding the definition of tourism planning to encompass a range of successful case studies. The Handbook looks at reimagining tourism planning through sustainability; engaging with forms of creative cultural tourism, the smart city, and rethinking how we see, communicate, understand, and can transform tourist destinations. It also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified pre-existing issues in the tourism sector, including sustainability, policy, and governance.
Providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on tourism planning, this Handbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the field. The diversity of perspectives and action-oriented, project-specific approach also make this an invigorating read for tourism planners and practitioners, particularly those focusing on making tourism practices more sustainable.
Critical Acclaim
‘Xie’s Handbook on Tourism Planning is a comprehensive and timely compilation that documents progress in research and practice during the half century since the publication of Gunn’s pioneering book "Vacationscape" (1972). Contributing scholar practitioners from 15 countries and regions show the enduring importance of effective and multidisciplinary tourism planning in the complex and interconnected post-pandemic era.’
– Brian King, Texas A&M University, US
‘Given the pandemic and the importance of sustainability, Professor Philip Xie has curated an excellent collection of tourism planning research exploring genius loci, “a sense of place”, through 26 chapters spanning 15 different countries. This volume will be essential reading for those interested in tourism planning, and its impacts.’
– Stephen Pratt, University of Central Florida, US
– Brian King, Texas A&M University, US
‘Given the pandemic and the importance of sustainability, Professor Philip Xie has curated an excellent collection of tourism planning research exploring genius loci, “a sense of place”, through 26 chapters spanning 15 different countries. This volume will be essential reading for those interested in tourism planning, and its impacts.’
– Stephen Pratt, University of Central Florida, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Wieslaw Alejziak, Alberto Amore, Juliana Araújo Alves, António Azevedo, Fatima L. Carvalho, Paulo Carvalho, Nicola Cerpelloni, Deepak Chhabra, David Coffey, Alexandra Coghlan, Ana Sofia Duque, Michael Fagence, Omid Salek Farokhi, Silvia Fernandes, Mansour Ghanian, Kai Gu, Unathi Sonwabile Henama, Alex Yang-Chan Hsu, Michelle Jamieson, Walter Jamieson, Rasha Kassem, Ye Li, Francesco Lucifora, Kelly Maguire, Emmet McLoughlin, Isabel Cristina Monjardino, Gianna Moscardo, Marco Platania, Samereh Pourmoradian, José Cadima Ribeiro, Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo, Dallen Timothy, Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan, Paula Remoaldo, Edieser Dela Santa, Daniel Santamaria, Sara Silva, Guillaume Tiberghien, Laurentina Cruz Vareiro, Tsung-Chiung (Emily) Wu, Philip F. Xie, Yi Yang, Wen Horng Yu, Yang Zhang
