Tomorrow's Tourist
Title | Tomorrow's Tourist PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Yeoman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2009-06-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136354891 |
* Based on first hand cutting edge futures research * Forecasts for World Tourism to 2030 * Suggests what the tourist will be doing on holiday in 2030 * Discuss issues such as climate change, alternative tourist destinations and consumer trends * Shows you how to apply trends in your business * Information provided by the Future Foundation, one of Europe’s leading consumer think tanks (www.futurefoundation.net)
Tomorrow's Tourist
Title | Tomorrow's Tourist PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Yeoman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Tourism |
ISBN |
2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism
Title | 2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Yeoman |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1845413016 |
This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought provoking analytical commentary.
Family Tourism
Title | Family Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | Heike Schanzel |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 184541327X |
This cutting-edge international book brings together leading experts? latest research in the field of family tourism by adding to its underdeveloped knowledge base. Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives underlines the infancy of academic family tourism research that belies its market importance and directs towards future implications and theoretical debates about the place of families within tourism.
The Future of Food Tourism
Title | The Future of Food Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Yeoman |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2015-07-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 184541540X |
This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience associated with place and history? The book’s approach to the future has focused on explanation; the contributors look for the causes, trends and theoretical concepts that explain change, thus attempting to justify and explore the future. Scenarios are used to explore alternative futures and the book examines the implications for the future of food tourism and highlights future research avenues. This book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and researchers in the field of tourism studies.
2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism
Title | 2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Yeoman |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2012-06-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1845413024 |
In 2050, it is predicted that 4.7bn or nearly 50% of the world's population will take an international holiday. But can humankind meet that forecast given the issues of ageing populations, peak oil, the global financial crisis and climate change? This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought-provoking analytical commentary.
The Future of Events & Festivals
Title | The Future of Events & Festivals PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Yeoman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2014-08-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1135939179 |
The growth of events and festivals has been significant over the last decade and a wide range of skills are essential to ensure those events are successful. This requirement has been instrumental in stimulating the creation of more tertiary education opportunities to develop events management knowledge. As the discipline develops, knowledge requires direction in order to understand the changing advances in society. This is the first book to take a futures approach to understanding event management. A systematic and pattern-based understanding is used to determine the likelihood of future events and trends. Using blue skies scenarios to provide a vision of the future of events, not only capturing how the events industry is changing but also important issues that will affect events now as well as the future. Chapters include analysis of sustainability, security, impacts of social media, design at both mega event and community level and review a good range of different types of events from varying geographical regions. A final section captures the contributions of each chapter through the formation of a conceptual map for a future research agenda. Written by leading academics in the field, this ground breaking book will be a valuable reference point for educators, researchers and industry professionals.