Image from Coce

Leisure and tourism policy and planning / A.J. Veal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : CABI Pub, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: Second editionDescription: xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0851995462
  • 9780851995465
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 790.941 21
LOC classification:
  • GV75 .V399 2002
Contents:
List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Leisure and Tourism: Rights, Needs and Citizenship -- 3. Political Ideologies and the Role of the State -- 4. The Market versus the State -- 5. Public Policy-making -- 6. Leisure and Tourism Plans and Planning -- 7. Planning Methods -- 8. Forecasting Leisure and Tourism Demand -- 9. Economic Evaluation Techniques -- 10. Performance Evaluation -- 11. Policy and Planning for Particular Sectors and Groups -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: "The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to public policy and planning in the broad field of leisure and tourism. It includes theoretical perspectives and practical guidelines for the application of a range of analytical techniques, encompassing planning methods, demand forecasting, cost-benefit analysis and performance appraisal. It is an updated edition of Leisure Policy and Planning (Longman, 1994), which has now been expanded to cover tourism as well."--Publisher description.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Revised edition of: Leisure policy and planning. 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-275) and index.

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Leisure and Tourism: Rights, Needs and Citizenship -- 3. Political Ideologies and the Role of the State -- 4. The Market versus the State -- 5. Public Policy-making -- 6. Leisure and Tourism Plans and Planning -- 7. Planning Methods -- 8. Forecasting Leisure and Tourism Demand -- 9. Economic Evaluation Techniques -- 10. Performance Evaluation -- 11. Policy and Planning for Particular Sectors and Groups -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

"The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to public policy and planning in the broad field of leisure and tourism. It includes theoretical perspectives and practical guidelines for the application of a range of analytical techniques, encompassing planning methods, demand forecasting, cost-benefit analysis and performance appraisal. It is an updated edition of Leisure Policy and Planning (Longman, 1994), which has now been expanded to cover tourism as well."--Publisher description.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha