Hospitality category: 1805 books
The Geography of Tourism and Recreation
Environment, Place and Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives. It still remains the only book to systematically compare and contrast...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Analyses of contemporary tourism planning and policymaking practice at local to global scales is lacking and there is an urgent need for research that informs theory and practice. Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically-informed, international case studies constructed through storytelling,...
by Richard Sharpley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Tourism, Tourists and Society provides a broad introduction to the inter-relationship between tourism and society, making complex sociological concepts and themes accessible to readers from a non-sociological academic background. It provides a thorough exploration of how society influences or shapes...
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...
by Alexandra Kossowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Tourism, grade: C (55%), Helia Business University of Business and Applied Sciences (-), course: Global Air Transport Management, 3 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Nowadays globalisation is affecting every sector of the modern...
Strategic Management for Tourism Communities
Bridging the Gaps
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
Tourism, with its wide-ranging impact, needs to be managed effectively – but how? This book advocates taking a business approach to tourism that encourages greater collaboration between stakeholders in the practical assessment of tourism options. The approach places key business management functions...
A Trip Too Far
Ecotourism, Politics and Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Environmentally-sustainable tourism or ecotourism has become a major area of interest for governments, the private sector and international lending institutions. It is regarded as a way of allowing economic development whilst protecting against environmental degradation, especially in those countries...
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Arte-Polis
Imagining Experience: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference. The theme of the conference was “Imagining Experiences: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place”, and the book brings together studies based on lessons-learned, research and critical reviews related to creative...
Tourism and Memories of Home
Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book investigates ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and...
Green Growth and Travelism
Concept, Policy and Practice for Sustainable Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The green growth paradigm emerged from evolving global strategies that coherently promote a more socially inclusive, low-carbon, resource-efficient, stable economy, with decreasing poverty. Opportunities and challenges associated with the paradigm shift are expected to transform the travel and tourism...
Faiths on Display
Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Over the past several decades, China has experienced a rapid expansion of religious spaces and activities. More...
by Clare Weeden
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
What is important to ethical consumers when thinking about going on holiday and how do they incorporate their lifestyle choices into these holidays? What values inform their lifestyles and how do they satisfy these values on holiday? Do ethical consumers automatically become ethical tourists or is...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of mass tourism, the dilemma of authenticity, whether small tourism is beautiful, whether volunteer tourism is benign, whether tourism contributes to climate...
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...