Logo
FULIOPAC 

FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY LIBRARY INTEGRATED ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG

 Home  About Us   Libraries   Services  AI (Artificial Intelligence)   FULEAP  FULELR   FULOG-InS  CoRe   eBooks  eResources   PDF   Databases   GaleComplete  Gender&Development  Thesis/Dissertation   BP/Capstone/FS   DigiLib   Lists   CourseReserves   FilOnline  

Geography and tourism marketing /

Sharma, Monica

Geography and tourism marketing / Monica Sharma - v, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliography and index.

Tourism is an extremely challenging business.Some strategies work phenomenally well sometimes and fail at others. You may bethe important role geography plays in tourist response but have are many theories and definitions to what can be understood through the term of tourism geography and researchers are still debating on what is and isn't included in this rather large field of study. The content of tourism geography is complex, making a connection between the two concepts of geography and tourism, being rather new compared especially with the term of geography. The beginning of the science can be traced at the beginning of the 20th century, although tourism was being used inside the study of geography long before. By the 1950s, tourism geography began to be accepted as its own domain, especially in scientific works from USA and Germany. As the importance and popularity of tourism increased, especially in the last two or three decades, becoming one of the biggest industries in the world, so did the role of tourism in geography and its study.
Tourism is essentially a geographical phenomenon, regarding the transfer of people and services through space and time, so a special domain dedicated to the research of the interconnections between tourism and geography was inevitable. Although the scientific field is new,the connections of geography and travel can be traced to ancient times,when geographers had no other way of describing the world than traveling and seeing it for themselves. The connections between tourismand geography are linked to specific terms such as place,location, space,accessibility,scale and others. This science also has an integrativecharacter, containing key elements from all fields of geography,physical,human and economic. Tourism geography also has many commonpoints with other sciences,including history,geology,biology,art,become to achieve a bronder definition,regarding the study of the

978939543178


Tourism--Marketing.


Hospitality Management, Bachelor of Science in,--Geography and tourism marketing--HOSM 205

(CHM-HM) G 155 A1 / 2024 S537