The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. Arranged over two volumes, the chapters are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debates, and emerging trends and future considerations for the field.

The two volumes focus in turn on the theories, concepts and disciplines that underpin tourism management in volume one, followed by examinations of how those ideas and concepts have been applied in the second volume. Chapters are structured around twelve key themes:

Volume One

Part One: Researching Tourism

Part Two: Social Analysis

Part Three: Economic Analysis

Part Four: Technological Analysis

Part Five: Environmental Analysis

Part Six: Political Analysis

Volume Two

Part One: Approaching Tourism

Part Two: Destination Applications

Part Three: Marketing Applications

Part Four: Tourism Product Markets

Part Five: Technological Applications

Part Six: Environmental Applications



This handbook offers a fresh, contemporary and definitive look at tourism management, making it an essential resource for academics, researchers and students.