Tourism Travel category: 1805 books
Hospitality Security
Managing Security in Today’s Hotel, Lodging, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
A security director must have knowledge of criminal and civil law, risk and personnel management, budgeting and finance, and a host of other areas in order to be effective. Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today’s Hotel, Lodging, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment provides experience-based,...
The Business of Champagne
A Delicate Balance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The world of champagne offers a fascinating insight into the complexity of modern business management and marketing. Champagne is at the same time a wine, a luxury product and a regional brand – it is tied to the place from which it comes, and can be made nowhere else. It therefore highlights a...
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, Second Edition
Who Owns Paradise?
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development is the mcomprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Martha Honey revisits six nations she profiled in the first edition—the Galapagos Islands,...
by Bernadette Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
"I found this text to be exactly what we were looking for to give our students a good understanding of the contemporary issues that affect the Events industry. I have recommended this as essential reading. It is well written and the format makes it an easy read raising key issues and challenging...
by P. Abbott, S. Lewry
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Designed for all students of hospitality and tourism management, the second edition of this best selling text gives a modern approach to front office operations and management using realistic scenarios set in the hotel environment
Key features of this essential text:
· user-friendly style...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these...
Tourists, Signs and the City
The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves...
Sustainability in Hospitality
How Innovative Hotels are Transforming the Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This ground-breaking research represents the most complete collection yet on how the hospitality industry is addressing sustainability and ethical issues. Covering supply chain management, innovative sustainability initiatives, CSR programmes, biologically-respectful tourism and Value Creation, Sustainability...
by Alexandra Riepe
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Tourism, grade: 70% (First), University of Lincoln, language: English, abstract: 'The real world of postmodern culture ... has entertainment as its ideology, the spectacle as the emblematic sign of the commodity form [and] lifestyle advertising as its popular...
Sports Management as an Emerging Economic Activity
Trends and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book examines the sports industry as a broad business and economic sector with an enormous influence on regional economic development. Covering topics such as sports economics, financing sports organizations, sustainability management in sports, sports tourism and doping among athletes, this...
Marine Ecotourism
Issues and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
Marine ecotourism is a major growth area within ecotourism, itself a rapidly expanding area within tourism as a whole. The activity has been attracting increasing attention, both from the popular media and from professionals and academics with an interest in tourism’s potential to contribute to...
Femininities in the Field
Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The aim of this book is to analyse and reflect on the effect of femininities in the field and the encountered biases specific to women researchers in tourism studies. The purpose of the book is to define potential areas of gender bias using international case studies from five continents to improve...
by Steve Charters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Wine is becoming increasingly popular in the Anglophone world and there are many books available which describe how and where it is made. However, none address the fundamental questions of different structures of production and how the consumer relates to the product – this book is the first to...
Visitor Attractions and Events
Locations and linkages
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Both visitor attractions and events play pivotal roles in the appeal of tourism destination regions to visitors by virtue of being the main motivator of tourist trips and determining consumers’ choices. However, more recently visitor attractions have become more multifaceted, have proliferated and...