International Business and Tourism : Global Issues, Contemporary Interactions

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Pub. Date: 2008-02-13
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

Tourism is changing. This innovative textbook examines a key international service industry in the context of globalization processes, the state, and increased individual mobility, using case studies to illustrate wider themes and key issues.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Tourism and International Business - Tourism as International Business - C. MICHAEL HALL AND TIM COLES SE CTION 1: FRAMING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND TOURISM: GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION, 2 Regulating the International Trade in Tourism Services - C. MICHAEL HALL, 3 Citizenship and the State: Hidden Features in the Internationalisation of Tourism - TIM COLES, 4 Nature and the Environment as Trans-boundary Business Strategies - JOHAN HULTMAN AND STEFAN GoSSLING, SECTION 2: THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF TOURISM BUSINESSES, 5 Aeropolitics, Global Aviation Networks and the Regulation of International Visitor Flows - DAVID TIMOTHY DUVAL, 6 International and Transnational Aspects of the Global Cruise Industry - ADAM WEAVER AND DAVID TIMOTHY DUVAL, 7 International Business Networks and Inter-Cultural Communcations in the Production of Tourism - NICOLAI SCHERLE AND TIM COLES, SECTION 3: THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF TOURISM: PRACTICES AND PROCESSES, 8 The Internationalisation of Tourism Commodity Chains - JAN MOSEDALE, 9 Internationalisation in Adventure Tourism: the Mobility of People, Products and Innovations - KATRIN BLUMBERG, 10 The Internationalisation of Tourism Labour Markets: Working and Playing in a Ski-resort - TARA DUNCAN, SECTION 4: TOURISM AND DESTINATIONS IN THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF BUSINESS, 11 International Business, Intellectual Property and the Misappropriation of Place: Food, Wine and Tourism - RICHARD MITCHELL, 12 Sports Facilities and Transnational Corporations: Anchors of Urban Tourism Development - DANIEL MASON, GREG RAMSHAW AND TOM HINCH, 13 International Car Manufacturers, Brandscapes and Tourism: Engineering the Experience Economy - TIM COLES, 14 Partnerships and Social Responsibility: Leveraging Tourism and International Film Business - SUE BEETON, 15 Conclusion: Mobilities of CommerceC. MICHAEL HALL AND TIM COLES

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