Urban Tourism and Urban Change Cities in a Global Economy [Paperback]

Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economyprovides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines the implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for success and failure in metropolitan change. Uniquely suited for teaching purposes, Costas Spirou integrates numerous case studies of cities to illuminate the significant impact and promise of tourism on urban image and economic development.

1. Changing Cities and the Commodification of Leisure  2. Globalization, Urban Competition, and Tourism  3. Tourism Policies and Urban Growth  4. The Infrastructure and Finance of Urban Tourism  5. Urban Tourism, Amenities and Human Capital  6. Residential Development and the New Face of Downtowns  7. Implications and Debates

'Accessible to a diverse audience including undergraduate students and the general public, this is also an impressive work of original scholarship. No previous book has offered such a sweeping account of the history and recent development of urban tourism, or placed it so thoroughly within large-scale social and economic processes of change.'  Dennis Judd, Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago

'As a practicing urban planner with a Ph.D. in tourism, I will assign this book to help my students understand the profound social, economic, and demographic changes that will determine the future of cities and  by extension  urban tourism in the coming years.' Rich Harrill, Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management, University of South Carolina

'A powerful new framework for interpreting cities. Leisure, consumption, and tourism have been rising for decades, but no previous bookl#