Tourism Travel category: 1805 books
Advances in Tourism Destination Marketing
Managing Networks
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This volume provides original insight into the operational opportunities, challenges and constraints in managing Tourism Destination Marketing. It explores how the various tourist destination systems including tourist, places (as seen by the tourist), public and private tourism organisations and the...
by Janine Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Tourism, grade: 2,3, Bournemouth University, course: Tourists and Destinations, 43 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The aim of wildlife tourism 'is to visit a destination in order to see and gain an understanding of the local fauna without...
Adventure Tourism
Meanings, experience and learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences.
This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting...
by Kaye Sung Chon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Deliver quality instruction to your students-on-campus or off
The Handbook for Distance Learning in Tourism is a practical, down-to-earth guide to developing and using print-based and Internet-based flexible learning resources for courses where students rarely, if ever, attend on-campus classes....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This volume offers new insight into an important and largely under-examined area of marine leisure and tourism: scuba diving tourism. Knowledge of scuba diving has long been hidden among broad discussions of water-based sports and activities and this focused book aims to shed further understanding...
Changing Trends in Japan's Employment and Leisure Activities
Implications for Tourism Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This book reviews employment and leisure trends in Japan from the post-war era to the present. In addition, it also examines how these trends will affect tourism destinations and businesses that rely heavily on Japanese overseas tourism. Topics that are of particular interest to readers include the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Migration and forcible displacement are growing and impactful dynamics of the current global age. These processes generate mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour driven by personal and collective memories. The chapters in this book highlight the importance of travel and tourism for...
Tourism in Antarctica
A Multidisciplinary View of New Activities Carried Out on the White Continent
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This book discusses the expansion of new activities carried out in Antarctica and the focus among treaty parties on the perceived challenges posed by adventure tourism in the region. Shedding light on the latest trends and the modus operandi of all parties involved, it draws attention to new elements...
Liminal Landscapes
Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...
Future Tourism
Political, Social and Economic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is threatening society, and makes suggestions on what the impact will be and how tourism will be changed to integrate with the new socio-economics...
Tourism and Religion
Issues and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book examines both specific issues and more general problems stemming from the interaction of religion, travel and tourism with hospitality and culture, as well as the implications for site management and interpretation. It explores the oldest form of religious tourism – pilgrimage – from...
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2019
Proceedings of the International Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, January 30–February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book provides an extensive, up-to-date overview of the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to develop tourism and hospitality. The coverage encompasses a wide variety of topics within the field, including virtual reality, sharing economy and peer-to-peer...
by Aadesh Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The concept of medical tourism is not a new one. The first recorded instance of medical tourism dates back thousands of years to when Greek pilgrims traveled from all over the Mediterranean to the small territory in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria. This territory was the sanctuary of the healing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Religious studies and research have gained a lot of interest and attention from researchers, policy makers, and practitioners over the last few years, but the socio-economic impacts have not been explored. Taking into account the profound economic impact the tourism and hospitality industries can...