What Is Your Destination

What is Your Destination?

What's Your Destination Today?

Ever wonder what road you're on or whether you will get to your desired destination? I know I have. You may be like the kid on the front cover - lost, lonely, stranded - waiting for a ride, any ride, to come along. You can't tell from the picture where he's headed, but I would suggest that just any old ride is not the best one. You need to know where you're being taken, how you're going to get there, who the driver is, and if there are any conditions associated with the trip. In What's Your Destination Today?, I explore all those issues in ten words that will change your destiny and perhaps your direction, too. Pack your bags; the road is calling.

Tourist Destinations

Destinations are a central feature of tourism and the focus of much tourism research. Destinations have been studied from diverse perspectives using multiple concepts and a range of approaches. As a result, destination research today has become increasingly fragmented as studies have become more specialized. There is a need for a more integrated approach, one which systematically draws together these different research threads to provide a comprehensive and coherent picture and a fuller understanding of destinations, their structure and how they function. This book provides such a synthesis by critically reviewing a wide range of international research and incorporating in one volume many different facets of destinations from studies which have appeared in related but often divergent literatures. Conceptual and methodological issues are illustrated with empirical examples from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania.