Book Launch Frameworks, Futures and Families
Frameworks, Families, and Futures are the themes of three new publications by academics from the Tourism Management group, and Victoria Business School will host a book launch at Rutherford House on Friday 3 August.
Frameworks for Tourism Research, by Professor Doug Pearce, provides the first comprehensive and systematic review and critique of frameworks for tourism research.
Frameworks are the foundation of good scholarship, and Professor Pearce covers theoretical, conceptual, analytical, and integrative frameworks with the features, use, strengths and limitations of each form discussed and illustrated using a wide range of examples and applications across the field of tourism studies.
Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, co-edited by Dr Heike Schänzel, Dr Ian Yeoman, and Dr Elisa Backer (Ballarat University, Australia), is a cutting-edge book that constructs a multidisciplinary perspective on family tourism by discussing various types of families.
It looks at how parents and children influence travel behaviours now and in the future, and how family holidays may also be linked to stress.
Dr Schänzel completed her PhD studies at Victoria University and was a teaching and research fellow within the tourism group until her appointment at Auckland University of Technology in 2011.
Dr Ian Yeoman's book 2050: Tomorrow’s Tourism paints a picture of the future, predicting that 4.7 billion people will take an international holiday in 2050.
But can humankind meet that forecast given the issues of ageing populations, peak oil, the global financial crisis and climate change?
Tomorrow’s Tourism constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh and Seoul to California, encompassing complex topics such as sex tourism, new technologies, climate change, food tourism, urbanisation, and transport.
This is a 'blue skies thinking' book about the future of tourism and a thought-provoking analytical commentary.