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City Tourism: National Capital Perspectives
Author(s): R Maitland (Author, Editor), B Ritchie (Author), B W Ritchie (Editor)
- Publisher: CABI Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781845935467
- ISBN-13: 9781845935467
Book Description
City tourism has grown rapidly and spread well beyond tourist-historic cities and resorts. Most cities now aspire to be tourism destinations and tourism has become a priority for developers and policymakers. National capitals are particularly important since as well as being destinations in their own right they act as gateways to their country, present the nation to the rest of the world and play a vital role in establishing national image and identity. Despite this, national capital tourism, like city tourism more generally, has suffered from a lack of research and analysis, limiting our understanding of how the qualities of these cities interact with changing tourism demands. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book draws on original research to investigate tourism in national capitals in detail, considering image and branding, the visitor experience, visitor markets and tourism development. The book takes a broad international approach, and provides detailed case studies of many different types of national capital – ranging from global capitals like London and re-emerging capitals such as Budapest to planned capitals like Canberra or Ottawa. This new research gives innovative perspectives on city tourism which will prove valuable for researchers, students of tourism and urban studies and for policymakers.
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About the Author
– Malcolm J. M. Cooper PhD LLM is Emeritus Professor, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan. He teaches tourism management and environmental law. Formerly Vice President for Research and International Affairs, he is a specialist in tourism resource management and development (natural, cultural, social), and environmental and water resource management, and has worked and published widely in these fields. He has lectured at a number of universities in New Zealand, Australia, China and Sri Lanka, and has worked in the environmental planning (City Planner, 1985-1994) and tourism policy (1983-1985) areas for Federal, State and Local Governments in Australia. At other times he has been a private environmental planning consultant in Australia, and a tourism education consultant to the Governments of Sri Lanka, China and Vietnam. He is a recipient of the Australian Centennial medal and has published over 150 books and papers.
