Tourism and tourism spaces - Shaw, Gareth (SAGE, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of boxes; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- Production and Regulation; Chapter 3 -- Tourism Firms and the Organization of Production; Chapter 4 -- Inter-company Cooperation and Competition; Chapter 5 -- Mapping Tourism Consumption: from Fordism to McDonaldization; Chapter 6 -- Engineering the Tourist Experience; Chapter 7 -- Tourism and the Commodification of Local Communities: Impacts and Relationships; Chapter 8 -- Tourism Places, Spaces and Change
Tourism and Tourism Spaces introduces students to the relationship between tourism, tourists, and the tourism spaces. The examination is at different levels - from local to global - and is informed by the discussion of three central processes: production, regulation, competition; consumption and commodification; and construction of tourist places and spaces