Tourism category: 1805 books
Last Chance Tourism
Adapting Tourism Opportunities in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Concerns over vanishing destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, and the ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro have prompted some travel operators and tour agencies to recommend these destinations to consumers before they disappear. This travel trend has been reported as: ‘disappearing tourism,’...
Real Tourism
Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in social...
Impacts of Tourism - An assignment about the development of tourism in Majorca
An assignment about the development of tourism in Majorca
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Tourism, grade: 2,3, Stralsund University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: Thinking about tourism what first comes to most people's minds probably has to do with sun, beaches, outdoor activities, shopping trips, exotic food and famous...
Tourism Research Paradigms
Critical and Emergent Knowledges
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The theme of this book is the phenomenon of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. Adopting a broad understanding of the paradigmatic field of tourism as the evolution and relationship between established and emergent schools of thought, this book explores the dynamics between tourism knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society, social relations, and development processes. However, numerous studies suggest that societal trust and citizen’s trust in government and its institutions are on the decline, challenging the legitimacy of government and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The receipt of knowledge is a key ingredient by which the tourism sector can adjust and adapt to its dynamic environment. However although its importance has long been recognised the fragmentation within the sector, largely as a result of it being comprised of small and medium sized businesses, makes...
by Kaye Sung Chon, Chris Ryan, John C Crotts
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism exposes researchers, tourism professionals, and students to the complexities of marketing issues in the most dynamic region in world tourism today. Dispelling commonly held Western assumptions, inviting new research, and stressing the importance of tourism...
by S. Medlik
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Understanding Tourism examines tourism in 1000 questions and answers. It is intended for students and teachers of tourism worldwide, those who earn their living through tourism or who simply like being tourists, expecially if they enjoy quizzes.
Students need to know what progress they are...
by David Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Sustainable Tourism comprehensively examines the theoretical and applied dimensions of contemporary sustainable tourism from a global perspective. Using international case studies and examples, it provides cutting edge coverage of the latest developments in the area, both theoretically and practically....
The Ethics of Tourism
Critical and Applied Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
There are increasingly strident calls from many sectors of society for the tourism industry, the world’s largest industry, to adopt a more ethical approach to the way it does business. In particular there has been an emphasis placed on the need for a more ethical approach to the way the tourism...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Sustainable Tourism is vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities associated with sustainable tourism development, and how government and industry have responded to the challenges the concept poses.
The major areas addressed in this edited volume are:
* perspectives...
Food Tourism and Regional Development
Networks, products and trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Food tourism is a topic of increasing importance for many destinations. Seen as a means to potentially attract tourists and differentiate destinations and attractions by means of the association with particular products and cuisines, food is also regarded as an opportunity to generate added value...
International Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This region, which largely comprises the Arabian Peninsula, possesses some of the fastest...
Analysis of the Chilean tourism market - products and opportunities for the destination Pucón and the IXth region
products and opportunities for the destination Pucón and the IXth region
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,5, Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (University of Applied Sciences), course: Leisure and Tourism Management, 80 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On the economic front, tourism has the capacity to...