The first edition received very positive reviews for its innovative approach, and this second edition develops yet further a number of the themes of tourism as being simultaneously a pre-, post- and modern phenomenon.

Receational Tourism – a social science perspective.

Chris Ryan

Publishers  -  Routledge, London and New York.

Published in 1991, this book covers the nature of tourism, the economic, social and psychological determinants of demand, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of demand.  It additionally includes a chapter on marketing and research applications.

A new edition of this book is due for publication in 2003 by the publishers of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Channel View Publications.

An Introduction to Hotel and Catering Economics

Chris Ryan

Publisher – Stanley Thornes

This book applies economic theory to the UK hotel industry and includes an analysis of concentration ratios, price determination, patterns of demand, and demand and supply theory.  Specific products like the weekend break market was also covered.  The book was published in 1980.

Researching Tourist Satisfaction

Chris Ryan

Publishers – Routledge, London and New York

This book examines the nature of tourist satisfaction and experiences from the perspective of how to model attitude measurement and the problems of doing this.  It covers both quantitative and qualitative research approaches and the latter part of the book takes readers through appropriate  statistical techniques using popular software packages like SPSS, NCSS and Minitab.

Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism

Eds – John Crotts and Chris Ryan

Publishers Howarth and Howarth New York

This book is a collection of papers originally published in a special edition of the Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing.  It consists of a series of articles relating to specific countries and includes articles by researchers such as Geoff Wall and Edward Kim.

Tourism Management – towards the new millennium

Chris Ryan and Stephen J. Page

Publishers – Pergamon Press

Based upon articles published in the period 1990 to 2000 in Tourism Management, the book is divided into themes.  Each section is introduced  by a commentary by the editors that examines current and future trends in research within the theme.  Themes include forecasting, services marketing, indigenous tourism, gender issues, urban tourism, and environmental impacts.

Sex Tourism – liminalities and marginal peoples.

Chris Ryan and C. Michael Hall

Publishers – Routledge, London and New York, 2001

Based on seven years research with co-researchers including interviews with sex workers and clients, the book provides a conceptual underpinning of sex tourism drawing on social theorists and social psychologists like Marx, Foucault, Turner, Brierley, Turner, and Stoller, and those writing from a feminist perspective, this well received book covers a range of topics including gay tourism, heterosexual sex tourism and trafficking of women and the exploitation of children.

The Tourist Experience – a new approach

Chris Ryan (ed)

Publishers – Cassell, London

This book, published to excellent reviews, consists of chapters written by Chris Ryan, Keith Hollinshead, Stephen Page, Don Getz, Tom Baum. Locating tourism within an evolutionary process of a developing gaze, it examines tourism within specific locations and includes an examination of tourism time and liminalities. Published in 1997, a new, enlarged second edition is being prepared for 2002

The Incidence of Sexual Exploitation of Children in Tourism

Dr Christine Beddoe

Professor Mike Hall

Professor Chris Ryan

Published by the World Tourism Organisation in 2001, The Incidence of Sexual Exploitation of Children in Tourism was written by Dr Christine Beddoe, Professor Mike Hall and Professor Chris Ryan. It is based on field work over a decade by the authors, and locates its subject within a wider context of the low regard with which children and women are treated in many parts of the world. Yet its analysis also extends to New Zealand and Australia. The work is informed by interviews with sex workers, police, NTOs, various governmental ministries from different countries, and concludes by arguing for the decriminalisation of sex work in order to both ensure that sex workers have full access to human rights, and as a means of obtaining better access to the conditions within which children are exploited.

Recreational Tourism: Demand and Impacts

Chris Ryan

Publisher - Channel View, Clevedon

This is a very good book. The careful reader will be greatly awarded. Just as importantly, the not-so-careful reader might learn the importance of careful reading… Hidden away in the text are some very deep thoughts… Ryan gives the reader much to think about and a deep understanding of core issues…
Jim Walmsley, University of New England. Review of Recreational Tourism. Published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 12(6):553-555, 2004.

For advanced students, this book is a great challenge in a good way. For academics who wish to learn in an area in which they want to quickly catch up in an intelligent and efficient fashion, this book is a must. For practioners … this book is a must too.

In closing, Recreational Tourism: Demand and Impacts: is a unique book that allows the reader to come to conclusions based on compelling arguments made in an unblinking no apologies style. This book is only for those willing to make an intellectual investment equivalent to the author's… Those who come prepared to truly think will find their efforts well rewarded.

Edward Udd, Rutgers University, Review of Recreational Tourism. Published in Journal of Travel Research 43(3):321-322.

Indigenous Tourism: The Commodification and Management of Culture

Chris Ryan and
Michelle Aicken (ed)

Publisher - Elsevier

The editors of Indigenous Tourism… have accomplised the extraodinary task of defining, describing and analysing the complex web of tasks surrounding their subject matter, and have performed admirably. … this volume offers a clear minded approach…. The editors deserve credit for producing a most valuable contribution to the literature. They have provided us with a chronometer and a compass; the volume is at once a candid depiction of indigenous tourism during the early years of the twenty-first century, and guide for yet remains to be accomplished.

Mark J. Okrant, Plymouth State University. Review in Tourism Management 27(5):1091-1092.

Ryan and Aicken's book is a major contribution to our understanding of the issues arising from tourism contact. … The book functions as a treasure house of current thinking about research techniques, the value of which extends beyond the specific challenges of enquiring into indigenous tourism… a book of intellectual calibre…Although less than two pages long, the Conclusion is a dynamite fuse, fizzing up new research ideas, questions and concerns. Let us hope that the result is an explosion of high quality research and a further book on indigeous tourism!

Eric Laws. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 11(3):299-300.