Air Transport – A Tourism Perspective

Anne Graham · Frederic Dobruszkes

Feb 2019 · Elsevier

About this ebook

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

About the author

Anne Graham is Professor of Air Transport and Tourism Management at the University of Westminster, London. One of her key areas of expertise and knowledge is air transport demand analysis and interrelations with tourism, and she has over 30 years’ experience of lecturing, research and consultancy on these topics. She has published widely with recent books including The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management, Airport Finance and Investment in the Global Economy, Aviation Economics, Managing Airports and Airport Marketing. Between 2013 and 2015 Anne was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Air Transport Management.

Frédéric Dobruszkes is a Researcher and Lecturer on transport geography and policy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Frédéric is the author of book chapters and journal articles on air transport geography, airline network dynamics, and the relationship between air transport and tourist mobility. He is an Editorial Board member of Elsevier’s Journal of Transport Geography.