文档介绍：Third
Edition Third Edition
“An outstanding and invaluable book for both transport and tourism
researchers and students and for transport and tourism providers,
decision-makers and managers.” GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES TOURISM AND TRANSPORT
Richard Knowles, School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford TRANSPORT
Transport and Tourism: Global Perspectives remains the leading, authoritative text providing a much- AND TOURISM
needed synthesis of the key, contemporary issues occurring at the intersection of transport and tourism.
Substantially updated, this third edition retains its cohering four-part structure but has been expanded GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
to pass an even wider global perspective without losing focus on the intricacies of the debates.
It continues to address all the key issues and new challenges that transport providers, decision-makers,
managers and tourists face in the use, operation and management of tourist transport against the
backdrop of rapid technological change in the 21st century. Stephen J. Page
Key features include:
• up-to-date, international case material and examples addressing key areas of current
concern such as the ongoing fi nancial crisis in the US airline industry, challenges posed by
low-cost airlines and other innovative forms of transport provision, the climate change and
sustainability debate, problems of managing car-based tourism, crime, safety and security,
and the e-travel revolution
• the new concise ‘Insights’ feature providing a greater breadth of case studies especially on the
developing world and the challenges of modating future growth
• pletely revised ‘future prospects’ chapter placing greater emphasis on good practice
examples and innovative schemes for tourist transport provision
• chapter summaries and refl ective questions focussing on the core material
• web links and further reading pointing the reader to sources and data beyond the text
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