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Cover of Global Trends, Practices, and Challenges in Contemporary Tourism and Hospitality Management
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019

As one of the largest service industries serving millions of international and domestic individuals yearly, it is important to understand the current trends, practices, and challenges surrounding tourism. Emphasized by the effects on people, management processes, and technological advancements, this...
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Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia

Emerging Research and Opportunities

by Bintang Handayani, Hugues Seraphin, Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019

As the tourism industry grows worldwide, researchers continue to seek solutions and practices that support increased tourism to specific regions. Special interest tourism is a method that looks at how psychological and sociological factors help a visitor choose which destination to visit. By applying...
Cover of Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and modern practices in travelling and tourism. Unprecedented levels of mobility and international exchange over the last 100 years have raised questions about the stability of national and personal identities and new and...
Cover of Tourism, Poverty and Development
by Andrew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Poverty alleviation is high on the global policy agenda, its importance being emphasised by its place as the first of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. As a potentially significant source of economic growth in developing countries, tourism may also play a major role in poverty reduction...
Cover of The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Asia is regarded as the fastest growing area for international and domestic tourism in the world today and over the next 20 years. Given the economic, social and environmental importance of tourism in the region, there is a need for a comprehensive and readable overview of the critical debates and...
Cover of Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks
by Victoria Peel, Anders Sørensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively...
Cover of Heritage Tourism
by Hyung Yu Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013

Heritage tourism has become an increasingly significant component of the global tourism industry, particularly in countries striving to diversify away from sea, sand and sun. This growth has had profound influences on the presentation and representation of both tangible and intangible heritage within...
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Emotion in Motion

Tourism, Affect and Transformation

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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016

What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment? What are the inner contours of tourist...
Cover of British Tourism
by Leonard J Lickorish, Victor T.C. Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010

Tourism at any point in time is in many ways a mirror of economic and social change. The changes in British society in the decades from the 1950s to the 21st century are reflected in the forms of tourism that the British have been able to aspire to and afford. 'British Tourism: A Remarkable Story...
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Peace through Tourism

Promoting Human Security Through International Citizenship

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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...
Cover of Tourism in South America
by Gui Santana
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Develop the untapped possibilities of this potential tourist El Dorado! Given its size, location, cultural attractions, and natural beauty, South America gets far less of the international tourist dollar than it deserves. This valuable book identifies and explores the major issues that influence...
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Tourism Governance

Critical Perspectives on Governance and Sustainability

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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development. Governance encompasses the many ways in which societies and industries are governed, given permission or assistance, or steered by...
Cover of GIS Applications in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018

Geographic information systems (GIS) provide information that can be useful across many disciplines. One of these disciplines is the travel and hospitality industry. GIS Applications in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry is a vital scholarly publication that explores the applications of GIS to the...
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Contemporary Christian Travel

Pilgrimage, Practice and Place

by Amos S. Ron, Dr. Dallen J. Timothy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

This book is the first to examine the depth, complexity and uniqueness of global Christian pilgrimage, travel and tourism, and how they manifest in terms of both supply and demand. It explores the places and spaces of production and consumption of this increasingly important tourism phenomenon. The...
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