Air Transport A Tourism Perspective

ISBN: 9780128128572 出版年：2019 页码：278 Elsevier Science_RM

Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective provides rigorous insights into the current complexities, synergies and conflicts within air transportation and tourism, presenting a balanced, comprehensive, contemporary, and global analysis that thoroughly examines the links between theory and practice. The book offers readers a multi-sector, global perspective on the practical implications of the link between air transport and tourism. By using a novel approach, it systematically explores the successive stages of a tourist's trip nvestigating reasons for flying, the airport experience, airline industry structures, competition and regulation, and air transportation and destination interrelationships. In addition, the book explores current and salient debates on such issues as the influence of traveling to visit friends and family, the role of charters versus low cost carriers, public subsidies to support airport development, and much more. Presents insights from an international team of expert contributors with proven research and publication experience in their specialty areaIncludes cutting-edge analyses based on original research that identifies emerging research directions and policy and managerial implicationsUtilizes a multidisciplinary approach to fully explore theoretical and policy concepts and their effect on air transportation and tourism developmentProvides case studies from around the globe in each chapter