Tourism Travel category: 1805 books
Royal Events
Rituals, Innovations, Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Royal events such as coronations and jubilees encompass a wide spectrum of planned events involving monarchs and their families that are strategically designed to reinforce the role of royalty within social and political structures. Royal events may have a long heritage, but often involve traditions...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Place branding has made it possible for international destinations to be able to compete within the global economy. Through the promotion of different cities, natural beauty, and local culture or heritage, many regions have been able to increase their revenue and international appeal by attracting tourists...
Event Design
Social perspectives and practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Events are becoming more complex as their range of functions grows, as meeting places, creative spaces, economic catalysts, social drivers, community builders, image makers, business forums and network nodes. Effective design can produce more successful business models that can help to sustain cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This handbook analyzes the main issues in the field of hospitality marketing by focusing on past, present and future challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective. The book uniquely combines both theoretical and practical approaches in debating some of the most important marketing...
Event Bidding
Politics, Persuasion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention. Yet, despite the cost, size and scale of these bidding contests, relatively little academic attention has been paid to the strategies and tactics used to develop successful bids. *Event Bidding:...
by Ashraf Abueed
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,3, Munich University of Applied Sciences, course: Hospitality Management, language: English, abstract: The prominence of the web as a distribution channel for hotel rooms as well as its transparency and ease for price comparison create...
The Valley of the Kings
A Site Management Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
During the New Kingdom (c. 1570-1070 BCE), the Valley of the Kings was the burial place of Egypt's pharaohs, including such powerful and famous rulers as Amenhotep III, Rameses II, and Tutankhamen. They were buried here in large and beautifully decorated tombs that have become among the country's...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The tourist experience is multi-faceted and dynamic, as tourists engage with its formation and creation. The tourists then become vital in creating value for themselves together with the service provider. Experience value cannot be pre-produced, but is co-created between host and guest(s) in the servicescape....
Business of Restaurants
London: An analysis of the current restaurant business
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,6, London Metropolitan University, course: Hospitality Management, language: English, abstract: From swanky restaurants to greasy spoons London offers a fantastic range of places to eat owing many of its rich pickings to its many ethnic communities....
Mega-events and Urban Image Construction
Beijing and Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
While societies shape the way their cities look and are represented, urban images, in turn, nurture and structure social relations in multiple ways. Nowhere is this dialectical relationship between social processes and urban representations more visible than in the hosting of global spectacles such...
Festival Encounters
Theoretical Perspectives on Festival Events
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional significance, and they are also important parts of community building.
This book focuses on these small-scale, non-metropolitan events (i.e. rural,...
Stats Means Business
Statistics and Business Analytics for Business, Hospitality and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
'Stats Means Business' is an introductory textbook aimed at Business Studies students who require guidance in the area of statistics. It minimizes technical language, provides clear definition of key terms, and gives emphasis to interpretation rather than technique.
'Stats Means Business' enables...
by Joseph S. Chen
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review journal, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and merging trends essential to theory advancement as well...