title: Tourism: Concepts and Practices
author:  John R. Walker 
description: Capturing the taste of the industry, ""Tourism: Concepts and Practices"" explores this exciting field using a systems approach. Building on the author's experience, it looks at the characteristics of tourism and the demand side first, then organizing tourism, followed by the operating sectors. Full-color photographs, industry profiles, and a career emphasis reveal the opportunities tourism holds for both consumers and professionals. Special geography spotlights examine the reasons people travel and the places people go.
zlib_text: ASPECTS OF TOURISM TEXTS
  Series Editors: Professor Chris Cooper (Oxford Brookes
  University, Oxford, UK),
  Dr C. Michael Hall (University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
  New Zealand)
  and Dr Dallen J. Timothy (Arizona State University, Phoenix,
  USA)
  This 
  new 
  series 
  of 
  textbooks 
  aims 
  to 
  provide 
  a
  comprehensive set of titles for higher level undergraduate
  and postgraduate students. The titles will be focused on
  identiﬁed areas of need and reﬂect a contemporary approach
  to tourism curriculum design. The books are specially written
  to focus on the needs, interests and skills of students and
  academics. They will have an easy-to-use format with clearly
  deﬁned learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter,
  comprehensive summary material, end of chapter review
  questions and further reading and websites sections. The
  books will be international in scope with examples and cases
  drawn from all over the world.
  Full details of all the books in this series and of all our
  other 
  publications