Planning for Tourism

“This book fulfils a need for an accessible text….The use of a wide range of case studies is interesting and the contributions from tourism planners and developers is very worthwhile. There is also good coverage of a range of tourism planning approaches. This book is recommended for undergraduate and postgraduate students on tourism planning and development courses.”

Dr Phil Long - , Bournemouth University

“Offering well-argued and innovative approaches to planning and tourism pedagogy, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature. With a wealth of international examples and contributions, the volume offers a truly global perspective.”

Professor Ian D. Rotherham, Department of the Natural and Built Environment - , Sheffield Hallam University, UK

“[A] fantastic and very useful book. I am sure that I will use it intensively for my work, especially for teaching.”

Professor Stefan Küblböck - , Ostfalia Univesity of Applied Sciences, Germany

Part One: Processes and Approaches to Planning and Tourism
1. Classical Approaches to planning and tourism—Dr Hongliang Yan and Dr Nigel D Morpeth
2. Sustainability: From theory to practice—Dr Nigel D Morpeth and Dr Hongliang Yan

Part Two: Practitioner approaches to Planning
3. The DNA of a planner and planning—Ian Brown

4. Planning for tourists and residents in an historic destination: York, UK—Ian Tempest
5. Universal Design and Planning for All—Craig Grimes
6. Spatial Planning-Managing Tourism and Recreation in lived ‘protected area’—Kathryn Beardmore

Part Three: Global Approaches in Planning and Tourism
7. Planning and development in the destination of Dubai—Filerati Kotsi and Dr Ian Michael
8. Planning sustainable rural destinations for communities and tourism—Sofia Texceiro Eurico
9. Planning a tourist destination in transition The Lebanon the challenge of planning and planning for tourism—Nour Farrar-Haddad
10. Planning for Regional Tourism and City Based Tourism—Stefan Kublbock
11. National Planning for Tourism: Latvia—Dzintra Atstaja

Nigel D. Morpeth

Nigel D. Morpeth (BA, MSc, PhD, PGCHE) is currently is a senior lecturer in Tourism Management, School of Events Tourism and Hospitality, at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He started his academic career in 1989, after working for three UK local authorities within the field of community-based leisure provision, and has also taught at the University of Lincolnshire and was Visiting Scholar at Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely in books and journals and has jointly edited two tourism books with CABI. His current research projects and interests are in community and sustainability initiatives and the visual arts and tourism planning and development as well as in pilgrimage and tourism.

Hongliang Yan

Hongliang Yan (BA, MSc, MA, PhD, PGCHE) is a senior lecturer in Tourism Management in the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He started his academic career in tourism and hospitality management in 2004. His research interests are in tourism, modernity and sustainable development which relates to the themes of tourism planning and policy making, governance, destination management, tourism and identity building. He has published widely on heritage tourism, tourism modernity and identity building, and tourism planning.