Hospitality category: 1805 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book examines key contemporary marketing concepts, issues and challenges that affect destinations within a multidisciplinary global perspective. Uniquely combining both the theoretical and practical approaches, this handbook discusses cutting edge marketing questions such as innovation in destinations,...
Managing Sustainable Tourism
A Legacy for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Intelligently designed tourism strategies for the twenty-first century!
Successful tourism development and marketing are dependent on maintaining a delicate balance between economic growth and the protection of environments. Managing Sustainable Tourism: A Legacy for the Future tackles the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However, despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality although...
Nassau & Paradise Island, The Bahamas
Travel and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Nassau & Paradise Island, The Bahamas. Travel and Tourism. Atlantis Paradise Island Resort is known worldwide for its amazing water adventures, white sand beaches, luxury accommodations and fine dining. Whether this resort on Nassau Paradise Island is on your bucket list or you're planning a return...
Tourism and Souvenirs
Glocal Perspectives from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Souvenirs are part of global and local travel and tourism in all corners of the world. This book portrays souvenirs as expressions of culture and as triggers of cultural change. The volume provides critique and theorisation of souvenirs of places, people and experiences in the context of lives lived...
Heritage Tourism in China
Modernity, Identity and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book offers new approaches and insights into the relationships between heritage tourism and notions of modernity, identity building and sustainable development in China. It demonstrates that the role of the state, politics, institutional arrangements and tradition have a considerable impact on...
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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...
Preserving South Street Seaport
The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Preserving South Street Seaport tells the fascinating story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan. Home to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century...
Social Tourism
Perspectives and Potential
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Social tourism refers to facilitating access to tourism for low income groups and/or the use of tourism as a regeneration and economic stimulation strategy. Although social tourism has its roots in the early 20th Century and is still a major component of the tourism sector in a range of countries,...
Exceso de equipaje
Por qué el turismo es un gran invento hasta que deja de serlo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Una serie de historias cruzadas sobre el turismo y su evolución en los últimos tiempos.
De repente, en el país que presume de ser el mejor destino turístico del mundo ha surgido un movimiento de rechazo a su industria más próspera. Los españoles viajamos cada vez más pero también empezamos...
by Dayanand Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Quality and sustainability in tourism are inherently linked. Thus, UNWTO aims at applying a broader concept of quality: while the conventional application of quality management in tourism establishments and services remains the basis, the quality of the natural and cultural environment of tourist...
by Hilary Du Cros, Lee Jolliffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Cultural heritage and contemporary arts benefit from being showcased in events. Arts-related events are each unique in reflecting local culture; they may be therefore spontaneous (street art and so on) or planned (i.e. studio tours or arts festivals).
The Arts and Events explores the nature...
Cultural Routes management: from theory to practice
Step-by-step guide to the Council of Europe Cultural Routes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
In 1987, the Santiago de Compostela Declaration laid the foundations for the first Council of Europe Cultural Route, highlighting the importance of our rich, colourful and diverse European identities. Today, the Council of Europe Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes oversees 29 routes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The issues surrounding the provision, preparation and development of food products is fundamental to every human being on the planet. Given the scarcity of agricultural land, environmental pollution, climate change and the exponential growth of the world’s population where starvation and obesity...