Tourism category: 1805 books
by S. Medlik
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This new edition combines within two covers:
* A dictionary of 2500 terms
* Descriptions of 300 organizations
* A biographical dictionary of 100 personalities
* Explanations of 1200 acronyms and abbreviations
* Key data for well over 200 countries
* A concise bibliography listing more than...
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, Second Edition
Who Owns Paradise?
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development is the mcomprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Martha Honey revisits six nations she profiled in the first edition—the Galapagos Islands,...
by Bernadette Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
"I found this text to be exactly what we were looking for to give our students a good understanding of the contemporary issues that affect the Events industry. I have recommended this as essential reading. It is well written and the format makes it an easy read raising key issues and challenging...
by P. Abbott, S. Lewry
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Designed for all students of hospitality and tourism management, the second edition of this best selling text gives a modern approach to front office operations and management using realistic scenarios set in the hotel environment
Key features of this essential text:
· user-friendly style...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these...
by Multicultural Marketing and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
China has already taken the place of Japan and become the No.1 outbound tourism market. According to World Travel Organization, there will be 100 million Chinese traveling abroad in 2020.
As a tourism and hospitality industry executive, do you want to gain more knowledge on how to welcome your...
The Escape Industry
How Iconic and Innovative Brands Built the Travel Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Travel as a concept is universally attractive and the opportunities for fun, engaging branding and marketing in this sector are arguably limitless. Glamour and appeal aside, travel is a hugely competitive, multi-million pound industry and marketers of all sectors can learn important lessons from it....
Tropical Whites
The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort—white sand, blue waters, and towering palms—become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the...
Fuerteventura Island
Travel and Tourism, Family travel, Vacation, Honeymoon Holiday
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Fuerteventura Island. Travel and Tourism, Family travel, Vacation, Honeymoon Holiday. The seven sub-tropical Canary Islands bask in sunny splendour off the Atlantic coast of north-west Africa. Millions of sun-starved north Europeans flock there for beach holidays, but increasingly visitors are discovering...
Tourists, Signs and the City
The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves...
Sustainability in Hospitality
How Innovative Hotels are Transforming the Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This ground-breaking research represents the most complete collection yet on how the hospitality industry is addressing sustainability and ethical issues. Covering supply chain management, innovative sustainability initiatives, CSR programmes, biologically-respectful tourism and Value Creation, Sustainability...
Conferences and Conventions 3rd edition
A Global Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Conferences and Conventions: A Global Industry 3rd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the key elements of the global conference, convention and meetings industry. It examines the industry’s origins, structure, economic, social and environmental impacts, education, training and career...
by Alexandra Riepe
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Tourism, grade: 70% (First), University of Lincoln, language: English, abstract: 'The real world of postmodern culture ... has entertainment as its ideology, the spectacle as the emblematic sign of the commodity form [and] lifestyle advertising as its popular...
Zoos and Tourism
Conservation, Education, Entertainment?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Zoos are important and popular tourist attractions. Spread around the world, they are typically located in major cities, with visitation levels comparable to other major attractions. Nature-based attractions constructed in artificial settings, they face the challenge of trying to balance potentially...