Tourism Travel category: 1805 books
by Connie Mok, Beverley Sparks, Jay Kadampully
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Does your staff deliver the highest quality service possible?
Customers today expect a very high overall level of service in hospitality, tourism, and leisure. Competition in these fields will thus be driven by strategies focusing on quality of service to add value, as opposed to product or...
Network Analysis and Tourism
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
This book aims to provide a comprehensive review of the contribution of network analysis to the understanding of tourism destinations and organizations. Theoretical and methodological aspects are discussed along with a series of applications. While this is a relatively new approach in the tourism...
The Ethical Travel Guide
Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Do you want a holiday that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience? Do you want a holiday that is enriching for you - and for the locals at your destination? If you do, and believe that your trip should give local communities a fair deal (so often denied them) as well...
by Stephen Ball, Susan Horner, Kevin Nield
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
This book represents a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date analysis of key sectors in the hospitality and tourism industries in China and India, and will address the market's growing need for information on Tourism in China and India. The text will be written in an accessible style drawing...
Design Science in Tourism
Foundations of Destination Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book explores the impact of design science and design thinking on tourism planning, gathering contributions from leading authorities in the field of tourism research and providing a comprehensive and interconnected panorama of cutting-edge results that influence the current and future design...
by David NEWSOME, Susan MOORE and Ross K. DOWLING
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
The book covers all facets of tourism in natural areas. The book is underpinned by a strong foundation of environmental understanding. It then describes the range of impacts, which occur when tourism takes place in the natural environment and illustrates how managers can plan, develop and appropriately...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
As the tourist industry becomes increasingly important to communities around the world, the need to develop tourism in a sustainable manner has also become a primary concern. This impressive collection of international case studies addresses this crucial issue by asking what local communities can...
by Michael Rimmington, Clare Williams, Alison Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwide this is particularly true. This new text is designed to develop a greater understanding of the process and context for entrepreneurship as well as...
Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development
Volume I: The Importance of Networks and ICTs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development revolves around the implementation of ICT applications in the tourism sector: technology is engendering a major shift both in the performance of individuals and companies involved in the tourism sector and having an impact on the way individuals consume services and enjoy experiences in space and time.
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...
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...
Tourism and Hospitality Marketing
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
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With over 70 global case studies and vignettes, this textbook covers all the key marketing principles applied to tourism and hospitality, showing how these concepts work in practice and demonstrating...
Cultural Tourism
Global and Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
A unique chance to explore different aspects of place, heritage, and tourism
For many nations around the world, cultural tourism is not only a major industry but also a support for national identity and a means for preserving heritage. Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives brings together in one volume interdisciplinary explora