Tourism and India: A Critical Introduction
Giới thiệu về sách điện tử này
Tourism and India is the first book to specifically focus on and fully analyze the issues facing contemporary India both as a destination and a potential source of tourists. The book analyses previous research and applies critical theory to key aspects of tourism in this region and supports this with a wide range of examples to illustrate the key conceptual points. As such the book examines aspects of tourism in India including tourism governance, cultural tourism, heritage tourism, nature-based tourism from the supply side and international tourism, domestic tourism, outbound tourism and the Indian Diaspora from the demand side.
This timely book includes original research to offer insights into India’s future development in terms of tourism. It will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the areas of Tourism, Geography and related disciplines.
Giới thiệu tác giả
Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism Development and Director of the Centre for Research into the Experience Economy (CREE) at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities (with John Urry and Mimi Sheller). He is chair the ATLAS Backpacker Research Group and has published widely on aspects of cultural, heritage and ecotourism development in India and Scandinavia. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Portsmouth.
Anya Diekmann is Assistant Professor (Chair of cultural tourism - Master de Gestion et Analyse du tourisme) and co-director of the research centre LIToTeS (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Tourisme, Territoires et Sociétés) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She is currently coordinator of ATLAS Europe. Her publications include work on different aspects of cultural tourism with a particular focus on heritage, urban and ethnic tourism as well as social tourism.
