Hospitality category: 1805 books
Handbook of Research on Modern Optimization Algorithms and Applications in Engineering and Economics
Handbook of Research on Modern Optimization Algorithms and Applications in Engineering and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Modern optimization approaches have attracted many research scientists, decision makers and practicing researchers in recent years as powerful intelligent computational techniques for solving several complex real-world problems. The Handbook of Research on Modern Optimization Algorithms and Applications...
Alternative Food Networks
Knowledge, Practice, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds"...
by Sven Buyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Tourism, University of Antwerp (Faculty of Applied Economics), course: Summer School Emerging Market Economies, language: English, abstract: This paper gives an evaluation of the Armenian tourism sector based on Nell Leiper's 'Framework of Tourism', with strong...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Visitor attractions represent a complex sector of the tourism industry and are the catalytic focus for the development of tourism infrastructure and services. As this area grows, there are still many questions to be answered and issues to be understood – such as what visitor attractions actually...
Peace through Tourism
Promoting Human Security Through International Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Peace through tourism refers to a body of analysis which suggests tourism may contribute to cross-cultural understanding, tolerance and even peace between communities and nations. What has been largely missing to date is a sustained critique of the potential and capacities of tourism to foster global...
Tourism Art and Souvenirs
The Material Culture of Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and cultural anthropology, and demonstrates...
Counter-Tourism: The Handbook
A handbook for those who want more from heritage sites than a tea shoppe and an old thing in a glass case
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it’s more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism ‘tactics’ plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, sociology, and tourism studies. Ideas and concepts of violence have long been explored in the social sciences literature but in relation...
by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature...
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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...
by Rachel Dodds, Sonya Graci
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Many of the world's islands are dependent on tourism as their main source of income. It is therefore imperative that these destinations are managed for long-term viability. The natural appeal of a destination is typically one of its main tourism related assets, yet the natural environment is also...
Ask the Experts: How Do You Make More Tips?
Interviews with Industry Pro’S
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Put more cash in your pocket! Increase your chances of getting bigger tips and being tipped more often. None of us is as smart as all of us (Eric Schmidt). Who better to learn from than longtime industry pros that each have countless real-life experiences and stories on exactly this topic? Why limit...
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...
by Franziska Bauer, Magdalena Holowinska
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Tourism, grade: A-, University of Birmingham, course: Tourism Destination Histories, language: English, abstract: The seminar dealt with the issue of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The discussion was mainly based on four articles followed by five questions...