Eric Laws
Biographic Data
| ID | 6295701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Laws |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Laws |
| SIGNATURE | LAWS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Commemorating Thomas Cook 5 July 1841–23 September 2019
Tourist Destination Management
Visitor management in tourism destinations
This book considers visitor management (VM) as a component of destination management at all levels of a destination and involving a wide range of stakeholders. It aims to demonstrate current knowledge on VM and to provide insights into conceptual issues rather than providing merely descriptive case studies. This book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and researchers. The introduction and foundation chapters in Part I provide the context…
Tourism Crises
As new crises emerge, it’s essential that the tourism industry be prepared to minimize the impact on both hosts and guests. Tourism Crises identifies key issues that need to be addressed in dealing with future incidents, examining specific cases of management success—and failure—with suggestions for improved responses. Academics, practitioners, and professionals discuss effective methods of maintaining yield during crisis situations, offering ana…
Tourism research
Tourism as a field of study is challenged to identify a theoretical core and disciplinary boundaries. While the phenomena of tourism may be considered a system of interlinked parts, the scholarly body of knowledge of tourism may be described as a mosaic of knowledge. This paper identifies a number of methodological problems that tourism research must address. We further propose that future study should focus its attention on core issues of touris…
Marketing of Tourism Experiences
This book provides a review of the current theory and practice of experiential tourism and how it is marketed. Many societies today are characterised by widespread individual wealth of an order previously confined to the elite with the consequence that ownership of 'ordinary' physical goods is no longer a distinguishing factor. Instead people are now seeking the 'extraordinary' with examples being bodies enhanced through surgery, personal fitness…
Giants of tourism
The British on Holiday
Tourist destination governance
This introductory chapter summarizes key aspects of the development of thinking in reference to tourist destination governance. It reviews the changing contexts of tourist destination governance, identifying and analyzing the main sources of its recent transformations. It examines concepts of collaborative contrasted with contested participation and the pluralities of stakeholders and actors with unequal skills, commitment and resources. It consi…
Distortions in Tourism Development in the Dali Autonomous Region, China
This paper presents a tourism destination development sequence for Dali, Yunnan Province, China. The development of Dali highlights limits in the power of the local government as the lead stakeholder, which took a top-down approach to economic development. The government sought to address increasing control of the tourism sector by external tour operators through increasing its own control of local tourism attractions. This approach has been only…
Tourism and Change in Polar Regions
Volcano and geothermal tourism, sustainable geo-resources for leisure and recreation
Tourism Management, Managing for Change
Philosophical Issues in Tourism
The Pata Tourism Strategy Forum 2008, Kunming, China (PRC), October 30–November 1, 2008
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is a membership association acting as a catalyst for the responsible development of the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry. PATA’s website (www.pata.org) describes how it influences the direction the industry takes through its unique membership structure of public sector tourism organizations, air, land and sea carriers, and organizations engaged in the production, distribution, financing, consulti…
Nature-Based Tourism, Environment and Landscape Management
Tourism and innovation
Crisis management in tourism
Crisis is kind of tension that jeopardizes the goals and targets of organizations by making mechanisms of the institutions complicated and not easy to communicate.Ambiguity in business brings risks and risks cause crisis.Crisis in tourism threatens the country as whole or some institutions and originates from natural disasters, socio-economic changes, terrorist acts, wrong political decisions or managerial mistakes.During the time of crisis, inst…
Tourism Research Methods
Tourism management, managing for change
Heritage sites as tourism assets for asian pacific destinations
This paper presents a brief review of issues in contemporary heritage tourism in Asian Pacific destinations and discusses the approaches being taken in light of tourism in ancient Europe. It appears that many of the issues, which confront contemporary managers and heritage tourists, would be recognised by our Egyptian and Greek predecessors from as long ago as three and a half millennia. Two further issues, the management of visitor experiences a…
Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism
Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism examines management responses to the major changes taking place in international tourism and considers tourism itself as an agent of change. Including twenty-two detailed case studies from around the world this book explores two key principles. Firstly that change is enevitable and, if effectively managed, has the potential to benefit all those living in, working in and visiting the destination. Secondly, …
Developing a new Multi‐Nation tourism region
This article examines Thailand's recent tourism policy and its attitudes towards international tourism development collaboration in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Thailand is the major tourist destination country and gateway for international tourists visiting the region, and is a leader of Mekong tourism developments. This paper considers the Thai perspective on its tourism development, and examines current co‐operative activities in the Mekong r…
Tourism development of Australia as a sustained preferred destination for Chinese tourists
Mainland China has been acknowledged as one of the major emerging markets by the Australian inbound tourism industry. The Chinese tourism market to Australia has developed dramatically. However, little research has been conducted with regard to the nature of the market and its implications for Australian tourism product suppliers and marketers. Developing previous research which was conducted in 1999, this paper provides updated insights into the…
Events in Indonesia
Events in Indonesia
Conceptualizing visitor satisfaction management in heritage settings
Tourism research
Tourism as a field of study is challenged to identify a theoretical core and disciplinary boundaries. While the phenomena of tourism may be considered a system of interlinked parts, the scholarly body of knowledge of tourism may be described as a mosaic of knowledge. This paper identifies a number of methodological problems that tourism research must address. We further propose that future study should focus its attention on core issues of touris…
Tourism development of Australia as a sustained preferred destination for Chinese tourists
Mainland China has been acknowledged as one of the major emerging markets by the Australian inbound tourism industry. The Chinese tourism market to Australia has developed dramatically. However, little research has been conducted with regard to the nature of the market and its implications for Australian tourism product suppliers and marketers. Developing previous research which was conducted in 1999, this paper provides updated insights into the…
Distortions in Tourism Development in the Dali Autonomous Region, China
This paper presents a tourism destination development sequence for Dali, Yunnan Province, China. The development of Dali highlights limits in the power of the local government as the lead stakeholder, which took a top-down approach to economic development. The government sought to address increasing control of the tourism sector by external tour operators through increasing its own control of local tourism attractions. This approach has been only…
Heritage sites as tourism assets for asian pacific destinations
This paper presents a brief review of issues in contemporary heritage tourism in Asian Pacific destinations and discusses the approaches being taken in light of tourism in ancient Europe. It appears that many of the issues, which confront contemporary managers and heritage tourists, would be recognised by our Egyptian and Greek predecessors from as long ago as three and a half millennia. Two further issues, the management of visitor experiences a…
Developing a new Multi‐Nation tourism region
This article examines Thailand's recent tourism policy and its attitudes towards international tourism development collaboration in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Thailand is the major tourist destination country and gateway for international tourists visiting the region, and is a leader of Mekong tourism developments. This paper considers the Thai perspective on its tourism development, and examines current co‐operative activities in the Mekong r…
Tourism and Change in Polar Regions
Business travel
Conceptualizing visitor satisfaction management in heritage settings
A structured bibliography of tourism books
(1999). A structured bibliography of tourism books. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 47-63
Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism
Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism examines management responses to the major changes taking place in international tourism and considers tourism itself as an agent of change. Including twenty-two detailed case studies from around the world this book explores two key principles. Firstly that change is enevitable and, if effectively managed, has the potential to benefit all those living in, working in and visiting the destination. Secondly, …
Developing a new Multi‐Nation tourism region
This article examines Thailand's recent tourism policy and its attitudes towards international tourism development collaboration in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Thailand is the major tourist destination country and gateway for international tourists visiting the region, and is a leader of Mekong tourism developments. This paper considers the Thai perspective on its tourism development, and examines current co‐operative activities in the Mekong r…
Tourism development of Australia as a sustained preferred destination for Chinese tourists
Mainland China has been acknowledged as one of the major emerging markets by the Australian inbound tourism industry. The Chinese tourism market to Australia has developed dramatically. However, little research has been conducted with regard to the nature of the market and its implications for Australian tourism product suppliers and marketers. Developing previous research which was conducted in 1999, this paper provides updated insights into the…
Events in Indonesia
Heritage sites as tourism assets for asian pacific destinations
This paper presents a brief review of issues in contemporary heritage tourism in Asian Pacific destinations and discusses the approaches being taken in light of tourism in ancient Europe. It appears that many of the issues, which confront contemporary managers and heritage tourists, would be recognised by our Egyptian and Greek predecessors from as long ago as three and a half millennia. Two further issues, the management of visitor experiences a…
Tourism management, managing for change
Tourism Research Methods
Crisis management in tourism
Crisis is kind of tension that jeopardizes the goals and targets of organizations by making mechanisms of the institutions complicated and not easy to communicate.Ambiguity in business brings risks and risks cause crisis.Crisis in tourism threatens the country as whole or some institutions and originates from natural disasters, socio-economic changes, terrorist acts, wrong political decisions or managerial mistakes.During the time of crisis, inst…
The Pata Tourism Strategy Forum 2008, Kunming, China (PRC), October 30–November 1, 2008
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is a membership association acting as a catalyst for the responsible development of the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry. PATA’s website (www.pata.org) describes how it influences the direction the industry takes through its unique membership structure of public sector tourism organizations, air, land and sea carriers, and organizations engaged in the production, distribution, financing, consulti…
Nature-Based Tourism, Environment and Landscape Management
Tourism and innovation
Tourist destination governance
This introductory chapter summarizes key aspects of the development of thinking in reference to tourist destination governance. It reviews the changing contexts of tourist destination governance, identifying and analyzing the main sources of its recent transformations. It examines concepts of collaborative contrasted with contested participation and the pluralities of stakeholders and actors with unequal skills, commitment and resources. It consi…
Distortions in Tourism Development in the Dali Autonomous Region, China
This paper presents a tourism destination development sequence for Dali, Yunnan Province, China. The development of Dali highlights limits in the power of the local government as the lead stakeholder, which took a top-down approach to economic development. The government sought to address increasing control of the tourism sector by external tour operators through increasing its own control of local tourism attractions. This approach has been only…
Tourism and Change in Polar Regions
Volcano and geothermal tourism, sustainable geo-resources for leisure and recreation
Tourism Management, Managing for Change
Philosophical Issues in Tourism
Giants of tourism
The British on Holiday
Marketing of Tourism Experiences
This book provides a review of the current theory and practice of experiential tourism and how it is marketed. Many societies today are characterised by widespread individual wealth of an order previously confined to the elite with the consequence that ownership of 'ordinary' physical goods is no longer a distinguishing factor. Instead people are now seeking the 'extraordinary' with examples being bodies enhanced through surgery, personal fitness…
Tourism research
Tourism as a field of study is challenged to identify a theoretical core and disciplinary boundaries. While the phenomena of tourism may be considered a system of interlinked parts, the scholarly body of knowledge of tourism may be described as a mosaic of knowledge. This paper identifies a number of methodological problems that tourism research must address. We further propose that future study should focus its attention on core issues of touris…
Visitor management in tourism destinations
This book considers visitor management (VM) as a component of destination management at all levels of a destination and involving a wide range of stakeholders. It aims to demonstrate current knowledge on VM and to provide insights into conceptual issues rather than providing merely descriptive case studies. This book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and researchers. The introduction and foundation chapters in Part I provide the context…
Tourism (26 works) · Business (23 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Marketing (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Cruise Tourism Development and Management (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works)