Tourism category: 1805 books
by Victoria Peel, Anders Sørensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
As the tourist industry becomes increasingly important to communities around the world, the need to develop tourism in a sustainable manner has also become a primary concern. This impressive collection of international case studies addresses this crucial issue by asking what local communities can...
by Michael Rimmington, Clare Williams, Alison Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwide this is particularly true. This new text is designed to develop a greater understanding of the process and context for entrepreneurship as well as...
Emotion in Motion
Tourism, Affect and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment? What are the inner contours of tourist...
Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development
Volume I: The Importance of Networks and ICTs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development revolves around the implementation of ICT applications in the tourism sector: technology is engendering a major shift both in the performance of individuals and companies involved in the tourism sector and having an impact on the way individuals consume services and enjoy experiences in space and time.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Arte-Polis
Imagining Experience: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference. The theme of the conference was “Imagining Experiences: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place”, and the book brings together studies based on lessons-learned, research and critical reviews related to creative...
Tourism and Memories of Home
Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book investigates ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and...
Faiths on Display
Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Over the past several decades, China has experienced a rapid expansion of religious spaces and activities. More...
Tourism and Hospitality Marketing
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
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With over 70 global case studies and vignettes, this textbook covers all the key marketing principles applied to tourism and hospitality, showing how these concepts work in practice and demonstrating...
Cultural Tourism
Global and Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
A unique chance to explore different aspects of place, heritage, and tourism
For many nations around the world, cultural tourism is not only a major industry but also a support for national identity and a means for preserving heritage. Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives brings together in one volume interdisciplinary explora
Dictionary for Air Travel and Tourism Activities
Over 7,100 Terms on Airlines, Tourism, Hospitality, Cruises, Car Rentals, Gds, Geography, Climate, Ecology, Business, Customs, and Organizations Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Travel and Tourism are wide and multifaceted systems whose complexity is reflected in the terminology employed to describe them or to operate them. Their communication language appears at times secretive; but there is no secrecy, in fact. Travel activities are bound to a vehicle distinguished by its...
Cultural Tourism in a Changing World
Politics, Participation and (Re)presentation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
At the interface between culture and tourism lies a series of deep and challenging issues relating to how we deal with issues of political engagement, social justice, economic change, belonging, identity and meaning. This book introduces researchers, students and practitioners to a range of interesting...
by Stefanie Grothe
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Tourism, grade: 2,0, , language: English, abstract: This study is about sustainable tourism and CSR focussing on the Whale Watching industry and the increasing number of Whale Watching tour operators. Primary research was used to get...
by Steven Pike
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Travellers are now spoilt by choice of available holiday destinations. In today's crowded tourism market place, destination competitiveness demands an effective marketing organisation. Two themes underpin Destination Marketing Organisations. The first is the challenges associated with promoting multi-attributed...