Contemporary Tourism Fifth edition

an international approach

Chris Cooper, Michael Hall

ISBN: 978-1-915097-16-3 HBK; 978-1-915097-17-0 PBK; 978-1-915097-18-7 eBook
DOI: 10.23912/978-1-915097-16-3-5085

The study of tourism and indeed the tourism industry is changing constantly. Now in its fifth edition, Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, looking at the far reaching effects that the COVID pandemic has had on the industry and how it has been forced to change, or not, subsequently.

Considering issues such as advances in AI and its impacts, the environmental crisis and air travel, the sharing economy and Airbnb, and the tourist experience in a Covid world. In particular, it highlights the ongoing threats and opportunities faced by the tourism industry today, and discusses the related management strategies, illustrating the potential implications for the patterns and flow of tourism in the future.

Divided into five sections, each chapter has a thorough learning structure including chapter objectives, examples, discussion points, self-review questions, checklists and case studies. URL links in the form of QR codes are heavily present throughout the text so that users of both hard and electronic formats can have direct links to up to date, authoritative and annotated sources of information. Cases are both thematic and destination-based and always international.

New to this edition:

New material on latest issues such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, international responses to the environmental crisis, the impact of AI/robotics on tourism human resource and the rise of the staycation;
Brand new and updated case studies and readings throughout;
Substantial support for both students and teachers, both within the text itself and via web-based student and instructor resources.

Section 1 Contemporary Tourism Systems

Chapter 1 Contemporary tourism systems
Chapter 2 Contemporary tourism product markets

Section 2 The Contemporary Tourist

Chapter 3 Contemporary tourists, tourist behaviour and flows
Chapter 4 Contemporary tourism marketing

Section 3 The Contemporary Tourism Destination

Chapter 5 Delivering the contemporary tourism product: the destination
Chapter 6 Governing the contemporary tourism product: The role of the public sector and policy
Chapter 7 Consequences of visitation at the contemporary destination
Chapter 8 Planning and managing the contemporary destination
Chapter 9 Marketing and branding the contemporary destination

Section 4 The Contemporary Tourism Industry

Chapter 10 The scope of the contemporary tourism sector
Chapter 11 The tourism industry: Contemporary issues
Chapter 12 Supporting the contemporary tourism product: Tourism service management

Section 5 Tourism Futures

Chapter 13 Tourism in the twenty-first century: Contemporary tourism in a changing world

Index

About the authors

Chris Cooper is Professor in the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University in the UK.
Professor C Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand; Docent, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.