My Books

• Global Tourism and COVID-19: Implications for Theory and Practice (2022)

• Heritage Tourism Beyond Borders and Civilizations: Proceedings of the Tourism Outlook Conference 2018 (July 2020)

• Travel and Tourism: Sustainability, Economics, and Management Issues (February 2020)

• Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change (released August 2017; publication date 2018)

• Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change (released August 2017; publication dated 2018)

• Balancing Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations (2017)

• Sustainable Tourism in the Global South  (April 2016) 

• World Regional Geography: Human Mobilities, Tourism Destinations, Sustainable Environments, 2nd ed.  (January 2015)

• Tourism Geography: Critical Understandings of Place, Space and Experience, 3rd edition  (September 2014)

• The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism  (June 2014)

• Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: An Integrated Approach (July 2009 UK; Sept 2009 US)

• Geography of the USA (in both English and Chinese)  (2011 China)

• Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes ( 2005)

• A Companion to Tourism  (2004)

• Tourism in China  (2003) 

• Tourism and Gaming on American Indian Lands  (1999)

• Sustainable Tourism: A Geographical Perspective  (1998)
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Tourism Geographies Book Series (based on special issues of the journal, published by Routledge)

• Managing and Adapting to Global Change in Tourism Places  (April 2015)

• New Research Paradigms in Tourism Geography  (March 2015)

• Understanding Tropical Coastal and Island Tourism Development  (August 2014)

My Book Chapters

(as of November 2018)

1. Lew, Alan A. (2019). Landscapes, peoplescapes, and mindscapes in island tourism. In J. Randall, ed., Annual Report on Global Islands 2019, pp. 109-128. Charlottetown, PIE: Island Studies Press. (pdf direct download)

2. Bakti, L. Arifin and Lew, A.A. 2018. A Resilience Approach to Understanding Collaboration for Tropical Reef Conservation on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. In A.A. Lew & Joseph Cheer, eds., Understanding Tourism Resilience: Adapting to Environmental Change, pp. (forthcoming). London: Routledge.

3. Chen, Xiaoqing and Lew, A.A. 2018. Resilience and Tourism Development in the Context of Rural China. In Joseph Cheer and A.A. Lew, eds., Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change, pp. (forthcoming). London: Routledge.

4. Cheer, J.M. and Lew, A.A. 2018. Understanding tourism resilience: Adapting to social, political, and economic
   change. In J. Cheer and A.A. Lew, editors. 2017. Tourism, Resilience, and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change, pages 3-17. London: Routledge. 

5. Lew, A.A. 2018. Planning for Slow Resilience in a Tourism Community Context. In Joseph Cheer and A.A. Lew, eds., Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change, pp. (forthcoming). London: Routledge.

6. Lew, A.A. and Cheer, J. 2018. Lessons Learned: Globalization, Change, and Resilience in Tourism Communities. In J. Cheer and A.A. Lew, editors. 2017. Tourism, Resilience, and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change, pages (forthcoming). London: Routledge.

7. Lew, A.A.; Ni, Chin-Cheng; Wu, Tsung-Chiung; and Ng, Pin T. 2018. The Sustainable and Resilient Community: A new paradigm for community development. In A.A. Lew & Joseph Cheer, eds., Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change, pp. (forthcoming). London: Routledge.

8. Lew, A.A., and Wu, Tsung-Chiung. 2018. Cultural Ecosystem Services, Tourism, and Community Resilience in Coastal Wetland Conservation in Taiwan. In A.A. Lew & Joseph Cheer, eds., Understanding Tourism Resilience: Adapting to Environmental Change, pp. (forthcoming). London: Routledge.

9. Lew, A.A.; Wu, Tsung-Chiung; Ni, Chin-Cheng; and Ng, Pin T. 2018. Community Tourism Resilience: Some applications of the Scale, Change and Resilience (SCR) Model. In Richard Butler, ed., Tourism and Resilience, pp. (forthcoming). Oxfordshire: CABI.

10. Lew, A.A.; Wu, Tsung-Chiung; Ni, Chin-Cheng; and Ng, Pin T. 2017. Community Tourism Resilience: Some applications of the Scale, Change and Resilience (SCR) Model. In Richard Butler, ed., Tourism and Resilience, pp. 23-37. Oxfordshire: CABI.

11. Lew, A.A. and Li, Zhifei. 2017. China: An Engine for Global Tourism. In C.M. Hall and S. Page, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Asia, pp. 08-323. London: Routldege.

12. Lew, A.A. and Han, Guosheng. 2015. World Geography of Mountaineering Tourism. In G. Musa, A. Thompson-Carr and J Higham, eds., Mountaineering Tourism, pp. 19-39. Oxford: Routledge.

13. Hall-Lew, Lauren, Fairs, Amy and Lew, A.A. 2015. Tourists’ Attitudes towards Linguistic Variation in Scotland. In P.Auer, F.L. Hinskens & P. Kerswill, eds., Studies in Language Variation, vol. 16, pp: 99-110. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (volume title: Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Trondheim, Norway, 26-28 June 2013.) (peer reviewed)

14.  Lew, A.A., Hall-Lew, Lauren, and Fairs, Amy. 2014. Language and Tourism in Sabah, Malaysia and Edinburgh, Scotland. In B. O’Rourke, N. Bermingham and S. Brennan, eds., Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics, pp. 253-9. (Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 5-7 September 2013, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) (peer reviewed)

15. Hall, C. Michael; Williams, Allan M.; and Lew, A.A. 2014. Tourism: Conceptualisations, Disciplinarity, Institutions and Issues. In Lew, A.A.; Hall, C. Michael. and Williams, Allan. M., eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Tourism, pp. 3-24. London: Blackwell (Blackwell Companions series).

16. Hall-Lew, Lauren A. and Lew, A.A. 2014. Speaking Heritage: Language, Identity and Tourism. In A.A. Lew, C.M. Hall and A.M. Williams, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Tourism, pp. 336-348. Oxford: Blackwell.

17. Lew, Alan A. 2014. Social Theories of Tourist Practice, Experience, and Landscapes Encounters. In Lew, A.A., Hall, C.M. and Williams, A.M. eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Tourism, pp. 191-196. Oxford: Blackwell.

18. Williams, Allan M.; Hall, C. Michael; and Lew, A.A. 2014. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Tourism. In Lew, A.A.; Hall, C. Michael. and Williams, Allan. M., eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Tourism, pp. 625-634. London: Blackwell (Blackwell Companions series).

19. Lew, A.A. 2013. A World Geography of Recreational SCUBA Diving. In G.Musa and K. Dimmock, eds., Scuba Diving Tourism, pp. 29-51. Oxford: Routledge.

20. Lew, A.A. and Hamzah, A. 2013. Mabul Island, the Underside of Sipadan. In G.Musa and K. Dimmock, eds., Scuba Diving Tourism, pp. 190-193. Oxford: Routledge.

21. Hughes, Amy and Lew, A.A. 2013. Real Food in the US: Local Food Initiatives, Government and Tourism. In C.M. Hall and S. Gössling, eds., Sustainable Culinary Systems - Local Foods, Innovation, and Tourism and Hospitality, pp. 64-84. Oxford: Routledge.

22. Lew, A.A. 2012. Geography and the Marketing of Tourism Destinations. In Julie Wilson, ed, The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, pp. 181-186. New York: Routledge.

23. Othman, Nor'ain and Lew, A.A. 2012. Collaboration and Alliances in Tourism Development and Marketing. In S. Janschitz, G.K. Lieb, and U. Strasser, eds., Grazer Schriften der Geographie und Raumforschung (Graz Essays in Geography and Space), vol. 44, pp. 205-220. Graz, Austria: Geography and Regional Sciences, University of Graz.

24. Lew, A.A. 2010.  Defining and Redefining Conceptual Frameworks for Social Science Field Research. In C.M. Hall, ed., Fieldwork in Tourism: Methods, Issues and Reflections, pp. 19-34. London: Routledge.

25. Lew, A.A. 2009. Domestic Tourism (1000 words, pp. 582-5) and Foreign Tourism (1500 word, pp. 585-8). In David Pong, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China (4 volumes). Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons.

26. Lew, A.A. 2007. Pedestrian Shopping Streets in the Restructuring of the Chinese City. In Tim Coles and Andrew Church, eds., Tourism, Power and Place, pp. 150-170.  London: Routledge.

27. Lew, A.A. and Wong, Alan. 2005. Existential Tourism and the Homeland Seduction: The Overseas Chinese Experience. In Cartier, Carolyn L. and Lew, A.A., eds. The Seduction of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes, pp. 286-300. London: Routledge.

28. Lew, A.A. 2005. Conclusion: Centering Tourism Geography. In Cartier, Carolyn L. and Lew, A.A., eds. 2004. The Seduction of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes, pp. 301-306. London: Routledge.

29. Lew, A.A. and Wong, A. 2004. Sojourners, Guangxi and Clan Associations: Social Capital and Overseas Chinese Tourism to China. In Timothy, D. and Coles, T., eds., Tourism, Diasporas and Space, pp. 202-214. London: Routledge.

30. McKercher, Bob and Lew, A.A. 2004. Tourist Flows and the Spatial Distribution of Tourists. In Lew, A.A.; Hall, C.Michael. and Williams, Allan. M., eds. 2004. Companion to Tourism. Pp. 36-48. London: Blackwell (Companions to Geography series).

31. Hall, C. Michael; Williams, Allan M.; and Lew, A.A. 2004. Tourism: Conceptualisations, Institutions and Issues. In Lew, A.A.; Hall, C.Michael. and Williams, Allan. M., eds. 2004. Companion to Tourism. Pp. 3-21. London: Blackwell (Companions to Geography series).

32. Williams, Allan M.; Hall, C. Michael; and Lew, A.A. 2004. Contemporary Themes and Challenges in Tourism Research. In Lew, A.A.; Hall, C.Michael. and Williams, Allan. M., eds. 2004. Companion to Tourism. Pp. 611-618. London: Blackwell (Companions to Geography series).

33. Meyer-Arendt, Klaus and Lew, A.A. 2003. The Geography of Recreation, Tourism and Sport. In G.L. Gaile and C.J. Wilmott, eds.,  Geography in America, pp. 524-540. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill Publishing.

34. Hawley, R. Dawn and Lew, A.A. 2002. The Open Range on the Urban Fringe: Land-Use Planning in Arizona (revised). In Smith, Z., ed., Politics and Public Policy in Arizona, second edition, pp. 207-220. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Praeger).

35. Lew, A.A. and Kennedy, C.L. 2002. Tourism and Culture Clash in American Indian Country. In S. Krakover and Y. Gradus, eds., Tourism in Frontier Areas, pp.259-283. Lexington: Lexington Books.

36. Lew, A.A. and Wong, A. 2002. Tourism and the Chinese Diaspora. In C.M. Hall and A.M. Williams, eds., Tourism and Migration: New Relationships Between Production and Consumption, pp. 205-219. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.

37. Sriram, N., Lew, A.A. and Raguraman, K. 2002. Gateways, Hubs and Destinations: Transportation Hierarchies in Southeast Asia. In B.S.A. Yeoh, T.E. Ser, and J. Wang, eds., Tourism Management and Policy: Perspectives from Singapore, pp. 55-90. Singapore: World Scientific.

38. Lew, A.A. 2001. Tourism Development in China: The Dilemma of Bureaucratic Decentralization and Economic Liberalization. In David Harrison, ed., Tourism in the Less Developed World, second edition, pp. 109-136. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.

39. Lew, A.A. 2001. Ecotourism in Asia. In David Weaver, ed., Encyclopedia of Ecotourism, pp. 123-137. London: CAB International.

40. Kennedy, Christina B. and Lew, A.A. 2000. Living on the Edge: Defending American Indian Reservation lands and Culture. In Landscapes of  Defense, John R. Gold and George Revill eds., pp. 146-167. London: Prentice Hall.

41. Lew, A.A. 2000. China: A Growth Engine for Asian Tourism. In C. Michael Hall and Stephen Page, eds., Tourism in South and South East Asia:  Issues and Cases, pp. 268-85. (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann).

42. Lew, A.A. 2000. Tourism Management on American Indian Lands in the USA. In C. Ryan and S. Page, eds., Tourism Management: Towards the New Millennium, Amsterdam: Pergamon, pp. 431-50. (Originally published in 1996; published here in a best of the 1990s compilation from the journal Tourism Management).

43. Lew, A.A.; Wee, Thomas Tan Tsu; and Ahmed, Zafar U. 1999. Tourism 21: Keeping Singapore on Top in the Next Millennium. In Hooi Den Huan, ed., Cases in Singapore Hospitality and Tourism Management, Singapore: Prentice-Hall, pp. 1-38.

44. Lew, A. A. 1999. Managing Tourist Space in Pueblo Villages of the American Southwest. In Singh, Tej Vir, ed., Tourism Development in Critical Environments. Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corporation (Tourism Dynamics Series, series editors: V. Smith and P. Wilkinson), pp. 120-36.

45. Lew, A.A. 1998. American Indian Reservation Tourism: A Survey of Resources and Practices. In Lew, A.A. and Van Otten, G., eds., Tourism and Gaming on American Indian Lands, Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corp., pp. 59-81.

46. Lew, A.A. 1998. American Indians in State Tourism Promotional Literature. In Lew, A.A. and Van Otten, G., eds., Tourism and Gaming on American Indian Lands, Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corporation, pp. 15-31.

47. Lew, A.A. and Van Otten, George. 1998. Prospects for Native American Reservation Tourism in the 21st Century. In Lew, A.A. and Van Otten, G., eds., Tourism and Gaming on American Indian Lands, Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corporation, pp. 215-221.

48. Hall, C. Michael and Lew, A.A. 1998. The Geography of Sustainable Tourism: An Introduction. In Hall, C.M. and Lew, A.A., eds., Sustainable Tourism: A Geographical Perspective. London: Addison Wesley Longman, pp. 1-12.

49. Lew, A.A. 1998. The Asia Pacific Ecotourism Industry: Putting Sustainable Tourism Into Practice. In Hall, C. Michael and Lew, A.A., editors.  Sustainable Tourism: A Geographical Perspective. London: Addison Wesley Longman, pp.92-106.

50. Lew, A.A. and Hall, C. Michael. 1998. The Geography of Sustainable Tourism: Lessons and Prospects. In Hall, C.M. and Lew, A.A., eds., Sustainable Tourism: A Geographical Perspective. London: Addison Wesley Longman, 199-203.

51. Lew, A.A. and Hawley, R.Dawn. 1996. The Open Range on the Urban Fringe: Land-Use Planning in Arizona (revised). In Smith, Z., ed., Politics and Public Policy in Arizona, second edition (Westport, CT: Praeger), pp. 207-222.

52. Lew, A.A. 1995. Overseas Chinese and Compatriots in China’s Tourism Development. In Lew, A.A. and L. Yu, eds., Tourism in China: Geographical, Political, and Economic Perspectives, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), pp.155-75.

53. Zhang, Guangrui; Yu, Lawrence; and Lew, A.A.. 1995. China’s Tourism: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies. In Lew, A.A. and L. Yu, eds., Tourism in China: Geographical, Political, and Economic Perspectives, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), pp. 237-44.

54. Lew, A.A. 1995. American Indian Reservation Tourism in Arizona. In Merrill, Hemp, ed., American Indian Relationships in a Modern Arizona Economy, Phoenix: Arizona Town Hall Association, pp. 112-126. (Chapter prepared for the annual Arizona Town Hall meeting, 31 Oct. - 3 Nov. 1994, Grand Canyon, Arizona.)

55. Lew, A.A. 1994. A Framework of Tourist Attraction Research. In Ritchie, Brent J.R. and Charles R. Goeldner, eds., Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality Research: A Handbook for Managers and Researchers, (New York: John Wiley & Sons), pp. 291-304. (republished and newly edited version of an article originally published in 1987)

56. Lew, A.A. 1993. The Open Range on the Urban Fringe: Land Use Planning in Arizona. In Smith, Z., ed., Politics and Public Policy in Arizona, (Westport, CT: Praeger), pp.183-196.​