Tourism geography: a new synthesis/ Stephen Williams.

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Figures; Tables; Boxed Case Studies; Preface to second edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism; Part I Tourism development and spatial change; 2 Tourism places and the place of tourism: resort development and the popularisation of tourism; 3 From Camber Sands to Waikiki: the expanding horizons of international tourism; Part II Tourism relations; 4 Costs and benefits: the physical and economic development of tourism; 5 Tourism, sustainability and environmental change. 6 Socio-cultural relations in tourism7 Strategies for development: the role of planning in tourism; Part III Understanding the spaces of tourism; 8 Inventing places: cultural constructions and tourism geographies; 9 Urban tourism in a changing world; 10 The past as a foreign country: heritage attractions in contemporary tourism; 11 Tourism, consumption and identity; Appendix: a guide to the use of the Internet in tourism geography; Glossary; Bibliogra.