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Encyclopedia of Tourism

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Jafar Jafari

    1. School of Hospitality Leadership, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, USA

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  2. Honggen Xiao

    1. School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

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  • Comprehensive treatment of all major concepts in largest industry worldwide
  • Provides authoritative definitions and explanations on all important tourism keywords
  • Collects the essence of the world's leading tourism research with its application in practice

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Table of contents (784 entries)

  1. Aboriginal tourism

    • Raynald Harvey Lemelin, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  2. Accessibility, tourism

    • Christine Lee, Daniel Olsen

  3. Accommodation: Tourism

    • Robert M. O’Halloran

  4. Acculturation, tourism

    • Colleen Ward, Tracy Berno

  5. Activity - Tourism

    • Juan Luis Nicolau

  6. Actor - Network Theory in Tourism

    • René Van der Duim

  7. Adaptation and Tourism

    • Fanny Vong

  8. Adventure tourism

    • Damian Morgan

  9. Advertisement, tourism

    • Kenneth F. Hyde

  10. Afghanistan Tourism

    • Amir H. Moghaddam

  11. Africa Tourism

    • João Sarmento, Bradley Rink

  12. Agritourism

    • Janet Momsen

  13. Agritourism

    • Adela Puig

  14. Air transport

    • Michael Spisto

  15. Airline

    • Michael Spisto

  16. Albania, Tourism

    • Salvatore Messina, Francesco Redi

  17. Alcohol and Drug Tourism

    • Rachel F. Giraudo, David Picard

  18. Algeria Tourism

    • Dominique Verdugo, Nourddine Bouanani

  19. Alienation and Tourism

    • Lan Xue, David Manuel-Navarrete, Christine Buzinde

  20. Allocentric and psychocentric, tourism

    • Toshiya Hashimoto
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About this book

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. Some 769 entries by 871 internationally renowned experts from 124 countries provide a definitive access to the knowledge of tourism and its related fields. Users will find reliable and up-to-date definitions and explanations of the key terms of tourism in this reference book. Tourism is the largest industry in the world and is the main source of income for many countries. With the practical impact of worldwide tourism and the growing number of academic programs and institutions devoted to its education and research, this encyclopedia is the epicenter of this emerging and developing discipline. 

Editorial Board
Managing Editor: Amy Osmond 
Associate Editors: David Airey, Nevenka Cavlek, Peter U. C. Dieke, Juergen Gnoth, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Tazim Jamal, Kumi Kato, Francisco Madrid Flores, Yoel Mansfeld, Scott M. Meis, Regina Schlüter, Noel Scott, Honggang Xu
Resource Editor: Beka Jakeli
Assistant Editors: S. Vida Muse, Peter Reim, Shun Ye
Cartographers: Kisandul Kumarasinghe, Ashan Manamperi, Himanshi Withanage

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Hospitality Leadership, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, USA

    Jafar Jafari

  • School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Honggen Xiao

About the editors

Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research: A Social Sciences Journal; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science (book) Series; Co-Chief Editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice book series; Chief Editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET: Tourism Research Information Network; and Founding President, International Academy for the Study of Tourism. A cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Minnesota, USA) and a hotel administration graduate (BS and MS, Cornell University, USA), with an honorary doctorate from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain) and the recipient of the 2005 United Nations World Tourism Organization Ulysses Award, he is Visiting Professor of the Universitat do Algarve (Portugal) and Sun Yat-sen University (China), international Program Director of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), and faculty member of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Department of Hospitalityand Tourism (USA).
Honggen Xiao is Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has had undergraduate (Fujian Normal University, China) and postgraduate (Soochow University, China) trainings in linguistics and literature, and has also earned his Master’s and PhD degrees in Recreation and Leisure Studies (University of Waterloo, Canada). His prior work encompasses associate professorship and directorship of The Department of Tourism at Huaqiao University, China, and visiting professorship in The College of Tourism at Rikkyo University, Japan. He advises doctoral studies, and has teaching and research interest in knowledge development, tourism and culture, leisure and society, and China tourism. He is Managing Editor of Journal of China Tourism Research; Associate Editor of Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, and Leisure Sciences; and Coordinator of UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook. He is a Fellow of the International Association for China Tourism Studies. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Encyclopedia of Tourism

  • Editors: Jafar Jafari, Honggen Xiao

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Business and Management, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01669-6Due: 24 May 2024

  • Number of Pages: 1500

  • Topics: Marketing, Economic Geography, Cultural Management, Regional/Spatial Science, Organization, IT in Business

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