Tourism and Tourism Spaces

Gareth Shaw is Professor of Retail and Tourism Management and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Exeter Business School. He has just completed an ESRC project on innovation in the hotel industry and is currently working on an ESRC follow-on project on Sustainable travel and Social Marketing. He is an Innovation Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management, was formerly Professor of Human Geography at Exeter and has a BA and PhD in Human Geography. He has worked on numerous research projects related to retail development all of which have been funded by major grant awarding bodies. He is an expert on retail innovation and business history and in recent years has completed a large scale AHRC project on the impact of the supermarket on consumer behaviour in post-war Britain. In addition he has written widely within tourism and produced key texts on tourism studies. He has also acted as a consultant for many local, national and international organisations. These include UNESCO, The National Trust, American Express, The European Union and Amoco Oil. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Tourism. Allan studied Economics and Geography at University College Swansea, 1969-72, before completing his PhD at the LSE. After completing his doctoral thesis, he worked as a Research Fellow at the LSE on a project on′Change in Urban Britain′,  and in 1976-8 was Lecturer in Geography at the University of Durham. In 1978 he moved to the Geography Department at the University of Exeter, where he was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then, from 1995, Professor of Human Geography and European Studies. He was Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies 1987-95. He also jointly established, with Gareth Shaw, an MSc in Tourism, Development and Policy at Exeter in 2000. He was appointed to the Chair in European Integration and Globalization at London Metropolitan in 2006, in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations, and the Working Lives Research Institute. He joined the Tourism Group in the Faculty of Management at Surrey in January 2011.

• IntroductionPART ONE: PRODUCTION, REGULATION AND COMPETITIONProduction and RegulationTourism Firms and the Organization of ProductionInter-company Cooperation and CompetitionPART TWO: CONSUMPTION, EXPERIENCE AND COMMODIFICATIONMapping Tourism ConsumptionFrom Fordism to McDonaldizationEngineering the Tourist ExperienceTourism and the Commodification of Local CommunitiesImpacts and RelationshipsPART THREE: CONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING TOURISM PLACES AND SPACESTourism Places, Spaces and ChangeEstablished Tourism Spaces in TransitionChanges in Coastal ResortsLandscapes of PleasureThe Construction of New Tourism Spaces and PlacesConclusions

The book is a well-structured and organised volume that provides a systematic review of a range of theoretical positions. It is written from a multidisciplinary perspective and will surely be beneficial for students and practitioners with a wide range of research interests (e.g. geography, tourism studies, sociology, management, hospitality studies, and leisure studies.