Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Tourism and mobility -- Tourism and globalization -- Tourism opportunities, risks and constraints -- Tourism and tourism spaces: an approach -- Summary -- Part One Production, Regulation And Competition -- 2 Production and Regulation -- The nature of tourism production -- Tourism and commodification -- Tourism, capitalist relationships and regulation theory -- Globalization and the limits of national regulation -- Summary: production and regulation -- 3 Tourism Firms and the Organization of Production -- Models of production: micro-firms and transnationals -- The tourism labour process -- Summary: organizing production within the firm -- 4 Inter-company Cooperation and Competition -- Competition within existing paradigms, or repetitive competition -- Competition within changing paradigms, or disruptive competition -- Collaboration and firm interdependencies -- Summary: innovation and forms of competition -- Part Two Consumption, Experience And Commodification -- 5 Mapping Tourism Consumption: from Fordism to McDonaldization -- Perspectives on tourism consumption -- The shift to post-Fordist consumption -- New forms of tourism: creating the tourist experience -- The 'McDisneyfication' of tourism -- Old and new forms of tourism consumption -- Summary: changing forms of tourism consumption -- 6 Engineering the Tourist Experience -- Dimensions of the tourist experience -- The tourist experience and authenticity -- Motivation and 'real' experiences -- Tourist behaviour: experiencing the dream -- From careless to careful tourists: engineering behaviour -- Globalization and national tourist cultures in developing countries -- Summary: tourism, globalization and 'engineering'.

7 Tourism and the Commodification of Local Communities: Impacts and Relationships -- Changing perspectives on tourism impacts -- The language of the holiday brochure and the consequences of place commodification -- Tourism, tourists and 'the other' -- Why us, why here? Local perceptions of tourism impacts -- Mediating change: tourism-community relationships -- Summary: commodification, impacts and communities -- Part Three: Constructing And Reconstructing Tourism Places And Spaces -- 8 Tourism Places, Spaces and Change -- Place and space -- Production, consumption and changing places -- Regulation and changing places -- Summary: places, spaces and regulation -- 9 Established Tourism Spaces in Transition: Changes in Coastal Resorts -- The seaside and the beach -- Creating paradise: the rise and diffusion of the seaside resort -- The resort transformed and transplanted: the growth of international competition -- Resorts and the pleasure periphery -- Tourism spaces and resort landscapes -- Resorts in transition: the anatomy of resort decline -- Resort redevelopment: the limits to intervention -- Summary: resorts in transition -- 10 Landscapes of Pleasure: the Construction of New Tourism Spaces and Places -- The development of diverse tourism spaces -- Fantasy spaces: from Disneyland to Las Vegas and beyond -- Constructing new leisure spaces: the rise of the themed mega-mall -- Tourism spaces as themed environments -- Playing with the past: creating tourism spaces in postindustrial economies -- Spaces of consumption or exclusion? -- Summary: constructing tourism spaces -- 11 Conclusions -- Reflecting on tourism -- The challenge of change -- The challenge for tourism researchers -- Summary -- References -- Index.