Tourist Destinations Pearce Douglas Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
Tourist Destinations Pearce Douglas Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand Destinations are a central feature of tourism and the focus of much tourism research. As a result, destination…
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Tourist Destinations Pearce Douglas Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
Destinations are a central feature of tourism and the focus of much tourism research. As a result, destination research today has become increasingly fragmented as studies have become more specialized. Destinations have been studied from diverse perspectives using multiple concepts and a range of approaches.
This book provides such a synthesis by critically reviewing a wide range of international research and incorporating in one volume many different facets of destinations from studies which have appeared in related but often divergent literatures. There is a need for a more integrated approach, one which systematically draws together these different research threads to provide a comprehensive and coherent picture and a fuller understanding of destinations, their structure and how they function. Conceptual and methodological issues are illustrated with empirical examples from Europe,