Contemporary Tourism Reviews

• Immediate, topical and must-have information available for immediate download;
• Select the topics you require on a 'pick and mix' basis with a flexible pricing structure;
• Written by internationally well-respected academic and industry experts in their field.

Students and researchers need information that is fast, current, immediate and flexible. CTR offers just that, by providing 'packets' (ie. reviews) of downloadable, searchable and must-have information based on core Tourism topics. Customers can target the exact information they require, on a 'pick and mix' basis, with all information purchased as an fully searchable XML tagged PDF file for immediate download.

Reviews are divided into the following four areas and cover each of the topics therein, and more:

• Discipline-based Reviews including Economics and Tourism; Sociology and Tourism; and Geography and Tourism.
• Business-themed Reviews including Service Management and Tourism; ICT and Tourism; and Human Resources and Tourism.
• Issues-based Reviews including Climate Change and Tourism; Sustainability and Tourism; and Transport and Tourism.
• Tourism Subject Reviews including Tourism and Event Management; Attractions and Tourism; and Risk/Security and Tourism.

Each review covers:

• The development of the field - the key milestones, literature, events and writers involved.
• Framing the field – the current state of the art/thinking and a clearly legible mapping of the field.
• Emerging issues and a future focussed agenda for the field.
• An extensive reference list.

With a team of international and well respected authors, the following will be available for immediate download over the coming months with the list being continually updated:

Destination Management (John Swarbrooke, Cesar Ritz College, Switzerland)
Tourism Area Life Cycle (Dick Butler, Emeritus Professor University of Strathclyde, UK)
Tourism and Service Management (David Solnet, University of Queensland, Australia)
Tourism and HR (Tom Baum, University of Strathclyde)
Tourism and Technology (Dimitrios Buhalis, University of Bournemouth)
Tourism and Innovation (Allan Williams, Gareth Shaw and Adrian Bailey, London Metropolitan University)
Destination Branding (Dr John Heeley, city marketing consultant)
Hospitality Management (Paul Barron, Napier University, UK)
Tourism and History (John Walton, Leeds Metropolitan University)
Tourism and Sociology (Viv Cuthill, University of Lancaster)
Tourism and Economics (Larry Dwyer, University of New South Wales, Australia)
Tourism and Transport (David Duval, University of Otago, NZ and Gui Lohmann, University of Hawai'i)
Tourism Futures (Ian Yeoman, University of Victoria, NZ)

About the editor:

Professor Chris Cooper has more than twenty-five years experience in the tourism sector, beginning his career in market planning and research with the UK's largest tour operator, Thomson Travel, and he has since worked as a researcher and teacher in every region of the world.

Professor Cooper gained his undergraduate degree and PhD in Geography from University College London and working closely with the United Nations World Tourism Organization he was partly responsible for establishing tourism as a subject at university level at the universities of Surrey and Bournemouth in the UK.

Today, Professor Cooper works with international agencies in tourism research and education, such as the European Union, the International Labour Organization, the OECD and ASEAN but primarily with the UN World Tourism Organization where he held the Chair of the UNWTO’s Education and Science Council from 2005 - 2007.
Professor Cooper was Co-Founder of Progress in Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation Research and the International Journal of Tourism Research and is currently the co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism. He is a member of the editorial board for leading tourism, hospitality and leisure journals. He has authored a number of leading textbooks in tourism, including Worldwide destinations - the geography of travel and tourism, Tourism principles and practice and Contemporary tourism. He is the co-series editor of Channelview’s influential book series ‘Aspects of Tourism’ and series editor of Contemporary Tourism Reviews for Goodfellow Publishers.

Chris has formed strong relationships with the leading tourism education and research schools in the world. He holds four visiting professorships, three in China and one at the University of Innsbruck.

Before joining the Christel deHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute at the University of Nottingham in the UK, Chris spent 8 years at the University of Queensland, Australia building a highly successful tourism school. He was awarded the prestigious UN World Tourism Organization Ulysses Prize in 2009 for contributions to tourism education and policy.

In September 2009 he will join Oxford Brookes University as the Dean of the Business School. He is looking forward very much to working with colleagues to unlock the School’s potential as a truly international, research-focused School, renowned for its teaching and learning and visionary approach to business.