Tourism: Change, Impacts and Opportunities

Tourism: Change, Impacts and Opportunities (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006) is a wide-ranging, academically grounded overview of how tourism transforms places – and how destinations can respond intelligently. Written as a modern follow-up to the authors’ earlier “classic” on tourism impacts, this 412-page paperback brings together theory and practice to help readers understand tourism as a dynamic system shaped by global change, local contexts, and competing stakeholder interests.

Wall and Mathieson start by clarifying what “tourism” is (and what it is not), then introduce frameworks for analysis before moving into the heart of the book: tourism impacts. The discussion is deliberately balanced – recognising tourism’s capacity to generate income, employment and investment, while also examining the less welcome consequences: pressure on landscapes and infrastructure, environmental degradation, social and cultural disruption, and uneven distribution of benefits. The book also highlights newer approaches to impact assessment and uses examples from both developed and developing contexts to keep concepts practical and grounded in real destinations.

A major strength is its planning and management focus: the final sections connect impact analysis with decision-making, showing how policy, monitoring, and destination management can steer tourism change toward more sustainable outcomes.

For students and professionals in tourism management, hospitality, geography, planning and sustainable tourism, it remains a solid, readable reference – supported by an extensive bibliography and indexes that make it easy to use for assignments, research, and on-the-job problem solving.

About the authors: Geoffrey Wall is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus (University of Waterloo) with major influence in tourism research, including recognition by UNWTO. Alister Mathieson held senior leadership roles in tourism and hospitality education (including at Humber).

If you want one book that clearly explains tourism impacts, destination change, and management responses, this is an excellent choice – ideal for anyone building real expertise in tourism studies.

• Encadernação: capa mole
• Ano: 2006
• Páginas: 412
• Dimensões: 23,3 x 17,3 cm
• ISBN-13: 978-0-130-99400-4; ISBN-10: 0-130-99400-6

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