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by Edward Rosheim
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
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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...
Animals and Tourism
Understanding Diverse Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect, whether as tourist attractions, wildlife conservation tools, as travel companions or as meat to be eaten. It aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between...
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,’...
Changing Trends in Japan's Employment and Leisure Activities
Implications for Tourism Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This book reviews employment and leisure trends in Japan from the post-war era to the present. In addition, it also examines how these trends will affect tourism destinations and businesses that rely heavily on Japanese overseas tourism. Topics that are of particular interest to readers include the...
A Multi-Industrial Linkages Approach to Cluster Building in East Asia
Targeting the Agriculture, Food, and Tourism Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This book proposes measures to promote regional industrial development in East Asia from the perspective of three industries: agriculture, food, and tourism. The authors argue that for regional agriculture to develop, collaboration with the food industry is essential. Further, by linking tourism,...
Domestic Tourism in Asia
Diversity and Divergence
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Many countries have a rich tradition of domestic travel and holidaying which not only predates but exceeds mass international travel. This is particularly the case in Asia where recent economic prosperity and trends in globalization have not merely spurred, but continue to shape traditions in domestic...
Tourist Shopping Villages
Forms and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Shopping is perhaps the most universal of tourist activities. Tourists form a separate retailing segment from the general population and place importance on different products and product attributes, contributing billions of dollars each year for both the private and public sector by which retail...
Tourism in Africa
Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Tourism energizes economies and fuels the economic transformation of countries from Cape Verde to South Africa. Its benefits are clear: it can trigger infrastructure improvements, create good jobs, increase domestic consumption, and diversify exports. It also empowers women, young people, and marginalized...
The Native Tourist
Mass Tourism Within Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Domestic tourism in developing countries is rapidly outstripping international tourism and could soon involve ten times the numbers. This is an examination of the numbers involved, their profile, behaviour, impacts and the relevant policy responses. The volume looks at the impacts of local mass tourism...
Blood on the Beach
Managing the Impact of Political Crises on Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Political acts of violence in tourist destinations, such as the attacks in Paris, Ankara and Sousse, have a disastrous and long-lasting effect on local people and businesses, to say nothing of the tourists themselves. In these days of instant communication, the effect is all the more dramatic and farreaching,...
Egypt - Impacts & Concerns, Sustainability & Ecotourism, Industry responsibilities, Tourism Planning
Egypt - Impacts & Concerns, Sustainability & Ecotourism, Industry responsibilities, Tourism Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Tourism, grade: 2, New College Durham, language: English, abstract: The aim of this assignment is to evaluate the different types of tourism impact and to analyse any potential damage caused by tourism activity. Furthermore the aim is...
by Yvonne Koppen
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Diploma Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,5, Euro-Business-College Bonn, language: English, abstract: 1New York - more than a city that never sleeps 1.1Problem situation In spite of the financial crisis, the United States of America is one of the most popular countries to...
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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...