Title & Author:

Cities and visitors : regulating people, markets, and city space / edited by Lily M. Hoffman, Susan F. Fainstein, and Dennis R. Judd.

Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Description:

xvii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in urban and social change

Notes:
Papers generated by a research collective, the International Tourism Research Group (ITRG), funded by the Council for European Studies, whose member scholars first met in Amsterdam in April 1998 and subsequently in Montreal and in Barcelona.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Susan S. Fainstein, Lily M. Hoffman and Dennis R. Judd -- 1. Visitors and the Spatial Ecology of the City / Dennis R. Judd -- 2. Cities, Security, and Visitors: Managing Mega-Events in France / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- 3. Sociological Theories of Tourism and Regulation Theory / Nicolo Costa and Guido Martinotti.

Summary:

This text uses regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. It opens and closes with chapters that analyse urban tourism within the context of a restructured global economy and its interaction with local and global cultural tendencies.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1405100583 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781405100588 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1405100591 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781405100595 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Tourism.
Cities and towns.
Tourism Management.
Urban tourism.
Cities
Tourisme urbain.
Villes.
Tourisme Gestion.
cities.
Stadt
Tourismus
Toeristenindustrie.
Steden.
Regulering.
Turismo.
Cidades.
Vilas.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Hoffman, Lily M.
Fainstein, Susan S.
Judd, Dennis R.
Studies in urban and social change.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231125
Call No.: G155.A1 C4 2003
Copy: pbk. ed.
Status: Available