Managing Urban Tourism

For students on undergraduate and postgraduate tourism; tourism planning; tourism management; urban development; urban studies; planning and public policy courses. An holistic analysis of tourism as an urban phenomenon, examining the challenge of developing, harnessing and managing urban tourism. The material is presented from a theoretical perspective in relation to postmodernism, also at a practical level in relation to the development of urban studies and planning knowledge to understand what urban tourism is.

ISBN	0130272868	Pages	416
ISBN13	9780130272867 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	754
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)	Published in	Upper Saddle River
Imprint	Prentice Hall	Series title	Themes in Tourism
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	234
Publication date	06 Sep 2002	Width (mm)	156
DEWEY	338.4791	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY edition	DC21

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of plates
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Publisher's acknowledgements
1	Introduction: cities as places for tourism	1
2	Urban tourism: concepts, theory and reality	27
3	The demand for urban tourism	54
4	Supply issues in urban tourism: the production of tourism services	95
5	Visitors in cities: activities and attractions	147
6	The impact of urban tourism: economic, socio-culture and environmental dimensions	190
7	Planning and managing urban tourism	246
8	Marketing urban tourism	297
9	Tourism and urban regeneration	319
10	The future of urban tourism	338
	Bibliography	349
	Index	384

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