The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date,
critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging
themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural
perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars,
the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends.
Organised into four parts, the handbook begins with an introductory
section that explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends
that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored,
including sustainable urban tourism, overtourism and urbanisation,
the impact of terrorism, visitor-host interactions, as well as
reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In
Part II the marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities are
considered, exploring topics such as destination marketing and
branding, business travellers and exhibition hosting. This section
combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case
studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology
developments for tourism cities, examining their supply and impact
on different travellers, from open-air markets to creative
waterfronts, from social media to smart cities. The final Part
offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different
parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to
the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist
tourism, including geology and ecology-based tourism, socialist
heritage and post-communist destination tourism. This handbook
fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed
understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience
today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners, as well as
examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of
urban tourism and tourism cities. The handbook will be of interest
to scholars and students working in urban tourism, heritage
studies, human geography, urban studies and urban planning,
sociology, psychology and business studies.
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