Tourism Travel category: 1805 books
by Jessica Dörr
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2004
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel (Tourism Management), course: English, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Bali is primarily associated with a paradise consisting of white beaches,...
Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development
International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of tourism considered more environmentally friendly: green, eco-tourism, and sustainable tourism. Much of the literature that has...
Tourism, Recreation and Regional Development
Perspectives from France and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development? How can we characterise stakeholder rationales and organisation modes to enhance tourism resources and foster tourism and recreation services? To what extent do tourism and recreation contribute to regional development? What changes are...
Tourism Research in China
Themes and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This book provides critical in-depth reviews on key themes and issues in tourism research in China. These themes include: Chinese scholars’ epistemological views of tourism, rural tourism development, community participation in tourism, tourist market and behaviour, tourist attraction management...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as...
Is the Sacred for Sale
Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
'Definitely a book that sheds light on perspectives and perceptions about today's global economy. A must read for tourists and corporations alike - also heads of state, the media and environment groups - all of whom need to be informed on this key subject.' Chief Garry John, Chair and Spokesperson,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Political ecology explicitly addresses the relations between the social and the natural, arguing that social and environmental conditions are deeply and inextricably linked. Its emphasis on the material state of nature as the outcome of political processes, as well as the construction and understanding...
Managing Sustainable Tourism
A legacy for the future
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Managing Sustainable Tourism tackles the tough issues of tourism such as negative environmental impact and cultural degradation, and provides answers that don’t sacrifice positive economic growth. It offers practical plans for fostering harmonious relationships among local communities, the private...
Tourism and National Parks
International Perspectives on Development, Histories and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In 1872 Yellowstone was established as a National Park. The name caught the public’s imagination and by the close of the century, other National Parks had been declared, not only in the USA, but also in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Yet as it has spread, the concept has evolved and diversified....
Tourism in Iran
Challenges, Development and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Iran has long been regarded as an international pariah state in some parts of the international community. However, its negative image in many countries disguises its history of tourism and rich cultural and natural heritage. Following the July 2015 nuclear deal and the reduction in sanctions, Iran...
The Role of the Entrepreneurs in Rural Development - New Zealand -Tourism
New Zealand -Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Tourism, grade: A, University of Otago (Department of Tourism), course: Entrepreneurship in Tourism, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Many rural areas around the world face economic challenges, partly due to their peripheral locations...
Constructing Cultural Tourism
John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In May 1993 the British Mountaineering Council met to discuss the future of high altitude tourism. Of concern to attendees were reports of queues on Everest and reference was made to mountaineer Peter Boardman calling Everest an ‘amphitheater of the ego’. Issues raised included environmental and...
by Joan C Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
In a world of increasing uncertainty it is vital that managers within the tourism industry are equipped with superior decision making skills and expertise necessary to deal with crisis conditions.
Tourism Crises provides an effective synthesis of crisis management and tourism research with...