Tourism impacts on locations in many ways--socially, environmentally, culturally, and economically. This book examines some well established controversies in tourism and some newly emerging controversial aspects associated with tourism as an activity and a business. Controversies involving clashes between visitors and host communities, the rights and wrongs of ecotourism, the impacts of mega-events, the legitimacy of dark tourism, and the costs and benefits of medical and wildlife tourism are assessed. This book is an interesting and thought provoking work ideal for tourism students, researchers and academics.

Business Travel and Tourism' pres a comprehensive, international overview of business tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
With the use of case studies from around the world, 'Business Travel and Tourism' explores a broad range of issues, including:

The papers presented in this volume advance the state of the art in social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, web site and search engine optimization, technology adoption and diffusion, online communities, tourism management and decision support, eLearning, mobile technologies and applications in tourism, recommender systems, e-intermediaries and networks in tourism, customer research in e-tourism and user generated content. The volume collects research papers of prominent scholars from around the world with a disciplinary background in the fields of social or computer sciences. The book covers among the most significant topics within the study field of electronic tourism and, likewise, addresses academics and practitioners interested in latest advancements in the electronic travel and tourism domain.

English for International Tourism is the first multi-level series designed specifically for the hotel and tourism industry! This course focuses on the grammar, vocabulary, and skills needed for professional communication in this fast-paced industry.
English for International Tourism is a language course designed to cater for learners studying for vocational qualifications in the travel trade and for working professionals undertaking in-service language training. The course deals with the language of tourism from an insider's occupational perspective rather than of the individual traveller. However, neither teacher nor student needs first hand knowledge of the industry because, it is not technical or over-specialised in nature.

Workshop Workbook prepares students studying a selected vocational topic (Tourism and Catering) for the English they will need in the real world. The series is the perfect complement to a general English coursebook.

English for International Tourism Pre-Intermediate provides a multi-level series for students who need professional communication within the hotel and tourism industries. Explores top tourist destinations using material taken from Dorling Kindersleys Eyewitness Travel Guides. Brings the world of work into the classroom. Provides effective communication strategies for workplace situations. Develops language awareness through an integrated syllabus.