Description
Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective provides rigorous insights into the current complexities, synergies and conflicts within air transportation and tourism, presenting a balanced, comprehensive, contemporary, and global analysis that thoroughly examines the links between theory and practice. The book offers readers a multi-sector, global perspective on the practical implications of the link between air transport and tourism. By using a novel approach, it systematically explores the successive stages of a tourist's trip—investigating reasons for flying, the airport experience, airline industry structures, competition and regulation, and air transportation and destination interrelationships.In addition, the book explores current and salient debates on such issues as the influence of traveling to visit friends and family, the role of charters versus low cost carriers, public subsidies to support airport development, and much more.- Presents insights from an international team of expert contributors with proven research and publication experience in their specialty area- Includes cutting-edge analyses based on original research that identifies emerging research directions and policy and managerial implications- Utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to fully explore theoretical and policy concepts and their effect on air transportation and tourism development- Provides case studies from around the globe in each chapter
Table of Contents
1. IntroductionPART A. THE RATIONALE FOR FLYING2. The contemporary tourist3. Reasons for flying4. Limits to growthPART B. BEFORE TRAVELLING: CHOOSING TRANSPORT MODES, AIRLINES AND AIRPORTS5. The impact of government policy and regulation6. Intermodal competition and tourism7. Airport choice8. The option of self-connection9. Distribution trends10. The role of the different airline business models11. The end of european charter airlines: Myths and realitiesPART C. ON THE GO: ACCESSING AIRPORTS AND THE AIRLINE AND AIRPORT EXPERIENCE12. The role of airport surface access in the passenger journey13. The airport experience14. The airline - airport relationship: Allocating risks and opportunities in a vertical partnershipPART D. REACHING THE DESTINATION AND ATTRACTIONS15. Partnerships between tourism destination stakeholders and the air transport sector16. The airport as an attraction: The airport city and aerotropolis concept17. The role of niche aviation operations as tourist attractions18. Conclusion: Factors, Beliefs, and Perspectives
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- 電子書籍
- 新巨人の星（８）
