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Tomorrow's tourist :

0080453392

9780080453392

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Tomorrow's tourist :

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scenarios & trends /

by Ian Yeoman, Futurologist with the Future Foundation.

First edition.

Oxford, UK :

Elsevier,

2008.

©2008

x, 357 pages :

illustrations ;

25 cm

Advances in tourism research

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-349) and index.

Introduction: world tourism and the tourist in 2030 -- History of world tourism -- What will the world look like in 2030? -- What will the tourist be doing in 2030? -- World tourism in 2030 -- The health tourist -- searching for the fountain of youth in incredible India -- The US grand-traveller : the changing roles of families and travel -- My life in Pogradeci -- the phenomena of second-home living -- The sex tourist -- what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas -- Ostentatiously expensive Dubai : the phenomenon of the retail tourist in the Middle East -- Bridget Jones goes on holiday -- The authentic tourist : a journey through Africa in 2030 -- From Birmingham to Mecca -- the ritual of pilgrimage and the desire for a spiritual existence -- Scotland's food tourist in 2015 -- The sports tourist : the urban rat race -- The space tourist : a metaphor for understanding the changing meaning of luxury and the desire for new experiences -- The gambler in Macao : Las Vegas of the Orient -- The new cultural 'capitalist' -- the Rio carnival -- Life on Mars -- how different generations perceive the future of holidays in Scotland -- The Asian tigress : the feminisation of the business and travel in China -- What if, the world no longer wanted to holiday in the US by 2030? -- What if global warming and climate change were to change our holiday plans -- What if government banned tourism in 20320 because it was deemed immoral, dangerous and bad for the environment? -- How to? Futureproofing the future.

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By 2030, China will be the world's largest tourism destination, holidays in Outer Space will the ultimate luxury experience, extreme Swedish ironing will be an Olympic Sport, embedded technologies will the norm in future tourists and skiing in the Alps will be no more. These are some of the changes that will occur between now and 2030 that will change world tourism. Tomorrows Tourist : Scenarios & Trends enables readers to imagine what a future tourist might be, where they will go and what they will do. --publisher's description.

Tourism-- Forecasting.

Tourism-- Planning.

Reiseverhalten

Tourism-- Forecasting.

Tourism-- Planning.

Tourismus

Turism-- planering.

Turism-- prognoser.

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