This chapter is concerned with visitor impacts at tourist attraction sites, exploring tourist behaviours, vandalism and related stakeholder responses. The first section of the chapter clarifies the meaning of the term vandalism in a tourism context, provides a condensed literature review of the...

This chapter explores how young Tibetans view the future of the tourism sector in the context of Lhasa. It pursues three themes (a non-Western setting, a location with a rapid evolution of tourism and a focus on the future) to continue the exploration of the gaze concept.

This chapter explores the phenomenon of tourist shopping villages (TSVs) and the dimensions that contribute to their success by combining a traditional literature review with an expert knowledge mapping exercise. While shopping is seldom mentioned as a primary reason for travel, the activity is...

This chapter deals with both the contentious issues and the opportunities in the marketing of host communities for tourism. It commences with an overview of the diversity of this phenomenon, followed by a brief but broad view of the scope of contemporary marketing. Here, the emphasis is on viewing...