Among the key features covered in the book are:

- The evolution and position of tourism studies

- The relationship of tourism to culture

- Route maps to the ecology and economics of tourism

- Special events, destination management and tourism

- Methodologies of study

- Tourism and transport

- Tourism and heritage

- Tourism and postcolonialism

- Global tourist business operations

Ranging from local to global issues, and from questions of management to the ethical dilemmas of tourism, this is a comprehensive, critically informed, constructively organized overview of the field. It draws together an inter-disciplinary group of contributors who are among the most celebrated names in the field. It will be quickly recognized as a landmark in the new and expanding field of tourism studies.