Tourism category: 1805 books

Cover of Developments in Tourism Research
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007

This book aims to be a showcase for cutting edge research offering a high-edited selection of the best paper submitted to the 2006 tourism conference at the University of Surrey, which itself is a celebration of 40 years of tourism education at the University. The emphasis of the book is on contributions...
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Tourism Employment

Analysis and Planning

by Prof. Michael Riley, Dr. Adele Ladkin, Dr. Edith Szivas
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2002

This book is an attempt to understand tourism employment in a holistic way. Using ideas from labour economics, work psychology and industrial sociology the authors look at tourism employment in both its workplace context and its wider economic and social environment and attempt to tell a coherent...
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Human Resources and Tourism

Skills, Culture and Industry

by Dr. Darren Lee-Ross, Dr. Josephine Pryce
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010

The tourism industry provides employment for literally millions of individuals. Despite global recessions, terrorist attacks and other catastrophes this is likely to remain unchanged in the long-term. Resilience of this nature helps tourism remain a major global employer in both developed and emerging...
Cover of Service Quality Management in Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure
by Connie Mok, Beverley Sparks, Jay Kadampully
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

Does your staff deliver the highest quality service possible? Customers today expect a very high overall level of service in hospitality, tourism, and leisure. Competition in these fields will thus be driven by strategies focusing on quality of service to add value, as opposed to product or...
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Network Analysis and Tourism

From Theory to Practice

by Noel Scott, Rodolfo Baggio, Prof. Chris Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008

This book aims to provide a comprehensive review of the contribution of network analysis to the understanding of tourism destinations and organizations. Theoretical and methodological aspects are discussed along with a series of applications. While this is a relatively new approach in the tourism...
Cover of Collaboration in Tourism Businesses and Destinations
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015

Tourism, travel and leisure (TTL) are highly diverse and fragmented industries. Alliances and partnerships can be used as a framework providing small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (which do not possess adequate resources or organizational capabilities) with opportunities to operate in a competitive...
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The Holiday Makers

Magazines, Advertising, and Mass Tourism in Postwar America

by Richard K. Popp
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012

In mid-twentieth-century America, mass tourism became emblematic of the expanding horizons associated with an affluent, industrial society. Nowhere was the image of leisurely travel more visible than in the parade of glossy articles and advertisements that beckoned readers from the pages of popular...
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Tourism and Retail

The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012

Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of the...
Cover of Micro-Clusters and Networks
by Ewen Michael
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006

This book introduces a new approach to the analysis and management of growth in small tourism markets for regional and rural locations. It recognizes from the outset that the vast bulk of the tourism industry’s product is delivered by small business enterprises and that many of these are located...
Cover of Contemporary Hospitality and Tourism Management Issues in China and India
by Stephen Ball, Susan Horner, Kevin Nield
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009

This book represents a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date analysis of key sectors in the hospitality and tourism industries in China and India, and will address the market's growing need for information on Tourism in China and India. The text will be written in an accessible style drawing...
Cover of Opportunities and Challenges for Tourism and Hospitality in the BRIC Nations
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

The stability and wealth of a nation’s economy is dependent upon the success of various industrial sectors. The tourism industry has experienced massive growth in recent years, creating more jobs and becoming a source of foreign exchange. Opportunities and Challenges for Tourism and Hospitality in...
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Design Science in Tourism

Foundations of Destination Management

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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

This book explores the impact of design science and design thinking on tourism planning, gathering contributions from leading authorities in the field of tourism research and providing a comprehensive and interconnected panorama of cutting-edge results that influence the current and future design...
Cover of Older Tourist Behavior and Marketing Tools
by Vania Vigolo
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the older-tourist market, and of the challenges and opportunities created by population ageing from a tourism marketing perspective, by combining a demand-side and a supply-side approach to older tourists. The book is divided into three parts, the first of...
Cover of Natural Area Tourism
by David NEWSOME, Susan MOORE and Ross K. DOWLING
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001

The book covers all facets of tourism in natural areas. The book is underpinned by a strong foundation of environmental understanding. It then describes the range of impacts, which occur when tourism takes place in the natural environment and illustrates how managers can plan, develop and appropriately...
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