A companion to tourism / edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tourism: conceptualizations, institutions, and issues -- The measurements of global tourism: old debates, new consensus, and continuing challenges -- Tourist flows and the spatial distribution of tourists -- Behavioral approaches in tourism research -- Toward a political economy of tourism -- Cultural geographies of tourism -- Tourist practices and performances -- The cultural turn? Toward a more critical economic geography of tourism -- Transnational corporations, globalization, and tourism -- Entrepreneurial cultures and small business enterprises in tourism -- Labor mobility and market structure in tourism -- Transport and tourism -- The tourism area life cycle in the twenty-first century -- Problematizing place promotion -- Tourism, information technology, and development: revolution or reinforcement? -- Theming, tourism, and fantasy city -- Whose tourist-historic city? Localizing the global and globalizing the local -- Urban tourism: between the global and the local -- Postcolonialism, colonialism, and tourism -- Indigenous people and tourism -- Tourism motivations and typologies -- Tourism, modernity, and postmodernity -- Cultural circuits of tourism: commodities, place and re-consumption -- Narratives of being elsewhere: tourism and travel writing -- Gender and sexuality in tourism research -- The souvenir: conceptualizing the object(s) of tourist consumption -- Tourism and landscape -- The beach as a liminal space -- Tourism, shopping, and retailing: an axiomatic relationship? -- Tourism and the countryside -- Mobility, tourism, and second homes -- Gaming and tourism: issues for the new millennium -- Geographic perspectives on event tourism -- Tourism and the natural environment -- Tourism and touristic representations of nature -- Environmental impacts of tourism -- Tourism and resource management -- National parks: wilderness and culture -- Ecotourism: theory and practice -- Tourism, sustainability, and social theory -- Tourism and the elusive paradigm of sustainable development -- Tourism and public policy -- Partnerships, participation, and social science research in tourism planning -- Local and regional tourism policy and power -- Tourism communities and growth management -- Political boundaries and regional cooperation in tourism -- GIS applications in the planning and management of tourism -- Contemporary themes and challenges in tourism research.