Tourism: Concepts and Practices
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 422
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 444
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Copyright: 2018
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Tourism: Concepts and Practices was written to empower students and help them become future leaders in this great industry. It provides an overview of the world’s largest and fastest growing industry groupings. Each chapter contains information about the numerous tourism segments, the many different areas of career opportunities, and career paths as well as profiles of industry practitioners and leaders.
Tourism: Concepts and Practices features:
- Chapter learning objectives
- Check Your Knowledge questions throughout
- “Focus On” boxes offering unique personal perspectives
- Review questions for improving critical thinking skills
- Chapter Summaries
- “Career Information” describing the skills, challenges, and realities of various careers in the field
- Internet Exercises and Interesting Websites
- And much more!
Tourism: Concepts and Practices is divided into five parts:
1. The Characteristics of Tourism
-This part introduces the characteristics of the tourism concepts and systems approach that forms the foundation of the text.
2. Organizing Tourism
-This part focuses on the organization of tourism. It examines the roles of international, national, regional, and state/local tourism organizations.
3. Operating Sectors 1
-This part examines the first part of the operating sectors with an overview of the attractions and entertainment industry and the business of conventions, meetings, and expositions.
4. Social, Cultural, Heritage, and Eco-tourism
-This part highlights the social, cultural, heritage, and ecotourism impacts of tourism from the tourist’s and host community’s perspectives.
5. Operating Sectors 2
-This part examines the second part of tourism operations. Distribution organizations are examined and their importance in the tourism system is explained.
Part 1 The Characteristics of Tourism
Chapter 1 Introduction to Tourism
Chapter 2 Motivation for Leisure Tourism
Chapter 3 Tourism Marketing
Chapter 4 Tourism Economics
Part 2 Organizing Tourism
Chapter 5 Tourism Policy and Organizations
Chapter 6 Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development
Chapter 7 Tourism Research
Part 3 Operating Sectors 1
Chapter 8 Attractions and Entertainment
Chapter 9 Business Travel: Meetings, Conventions, and Expositions
Part 4 Social, Cultural, Heritage, and Eco-tourism
Chapter 10 Social Aspects of Tourism
Chapter 11 Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Chapter 12 Eco-tourism
Part 5 Operating Sectors 2
Chapter 13 Tourism Distribution Organizations
Chapter 14 Transportation
Chapter 15 Lodging and Restaurants
- Discussion Prompts
- Exercises
- Instructors Manual
- Test Bank
Dr . John R. Walker, DBA, FMP, CHA, is the McKibbon Professor Emeritus of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of South Florida and Fulbright Senior Specialist. John’s years of industry experience began with management training at the Savoy Hotel London. This was followed by terms as food and beverage manager; Human Resources Manager at the Selsdon Park Hotel; Assistant Rooms Division Manager at the Royal Garden Hotel, a 550 room five-star hotel; Senior Assistant Conference and Banqueting Manager at the five-star London Hotel InterContinental; and general manager of the prestigious five-star Coral Reef Club, Barbados, West Indies.
John has taught Human Resources Leadership for several years and received presidential awards for scholarship and has been published in leading journals and newspapers and has been awarded professor emeritus twice. He is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism. He is a past president of the Pacific Chapter of International CHRIE and is a certified hotel administrator, and food service management professional. John is coauthor of Tourism Concepts and Practices also published by Kendall Hunt.
Christopher J. Walker is a presidential scholar, assistant manager of Suso Beach Resort, and a former McKibbon Marriott hotel associate, a former Seasons 52 associate, a former Hilton Hotels associate, and a Marriott hotel and resort associate.
Tourism: Concepts and Practices was written to empower students and help them become future leaders in this great industry. It provides an overview of the world’s largest and fastest growing industry groupings. Each chapter contains information about the numerous tourism segments, the many different areas of career opportunities, and career paths as well as profiles of industry practitioners and leaders.
Tourism: Concepts and Practices features:
- Chapter learning objectives
- Check Your Knowledge questions throughout
- “Focus On” boxes offering unique personal perspectives
- Review questions for improving critical thinking skills
- Chapter Summaries
- “Career Information” describing the skills, challenges, and realities of various careers in the field
- Internet Exercises and Interesting Websites
- And much more!
Tourism: Concepts and Practices is divided into five parts:
1. The Characteristics of Tourism
-This part introduces the characteristics of the tourism concepts and systems approach that forms the foundation of the text.
2. Organizing Tourism
-This part focuses on the organization of tourism. It examines the roles of international, national, regional, and state/local tourism organizations.
3. Operating Sectors 1
-This part examines the first part of the operating sectors with an overview of the attractions and entertainment industry and the business of conventions, meetings, and expositions.
4. Social, Cultural, Heritage, and Eco-tourism
-This part highlights the social, cultural, heritage, and ecotourism impacts of tourism from the tourist’s and host community’s perspectives.
5. Operating Sectors 2
-This part examines the second part of tourism operations. Distribution organizations are examined and their importance in the tourism system is explained.
Part 1 The Characteristics of Tourism
Chapter 1 Introduction to Tourism
Chapter 2 Motivation for Leisure Tourism
Chapter 3 Tourism Marketing
Chapter 4 Tourism Economics
Part 2 Organizing Tourism
Chapter 5 Tourism Policy and Organizations
Chapter 6 Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development
Chapter 7 Tourism Research
Part 3 Operating Sectors 1
Chapter 8 Attractions and Entertainment
Chapter 9 Business Travel: Meetings, Conventions, and Expositions
Part 4 Social, Cultural, Heritage, and Eco-tourism
Chapter 10 Social Aspects of Tourism
Chapter 11 Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Chapter 12 Eco-tourism
Part 5 Operating Sectors 2
Chapter 13 Tourism Distribution Organizations
Chapter 14 Transportation
Chapter 15 Lodging and Restaurants
Dr . John R. Walker, DBA, FMP, CHA, is the McKibbon Professor Emeritus of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of South Florida and Fulbright Senior Specialist. John’s years of industry experience began with management training at the Savoy Hotel London. This was followed by terms as food and beverage manager; Human Resources Manager at the Selsdon Park Hotel; Assistant Rooms Division Manager at the Royal Garden Hotel, a 550 room five-star hotel; Senior Assistant Conference and Banqueting Manager at the five-star London Hotel InterContinental; and general manager of the prestigious five-star Coral Reef Club, Barbados, West Indies.
John has taught Human Resources Leadership for several years and received presidential awards for scholarship and has been published in leading journals and newspapers and has been awarded professor emeritus twice. He is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism. He is a past president of the Pacific Chapter of International CHRIE and is a certified hotel administrator, and food service management professional. John is coauthor of Tourism Concepts and Practices also published by Kendall Hunt.
Christopher J. Walker is a presidential scholar, assistant manager of Suso Beach Resort, and a former McKibbon Marriott hotel associate, a former Seasons 52 associate, a former Hilton Hotels associate, and a Marriott hotel and resort associate.
- Discussion Prompts
- Exercises
- Instructors Manual
- Test Bank