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Evolution, Management and Development
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By
Bruce Prideaux, Professor of Tourism Management and Marketing, James Cook University, Australia
Description
Destination management and resort development and planning are strong core areas in the final year of most undergraduate degrees and a
popular area of study at postgraduate level.
Using original case studies based on his own research, Resort Destinations: evolution,
management & development uses examples from Australia's Gold Coast, Britain's Brighton, USA's Las Vegas, as well as Hong Kong,
New Zealand and the Caribbean.
Audience
Primary: Final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism/geography/social study-related courses. (HESA statistics for 1999
calculated a total of 18,928 students on such degree courses.) Also undergraduate and postgraduate students on commercial recreation
programmes (US mainly).
Contents
The resort destination setting - The historical setting; Definitions: exploring the literature; Geographical context; Economic perspectives;
The human element; Resort destination dynamics - Planning issues; Sustainability; Resort destination marketing; Management; Infrastructure
issues;
Examples of resort destination types - Resort destination development in developing nations; Mountain resort destinations; Resort
destinations in isolated locations; City resort destinations; Island resort destinations; The future of resort destinations - Threats;
The future of resort destinations.
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Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: APR-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5753-2
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5753-7
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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