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Building Community Capacity for Tourism Development
Tourism has become an important tool for development in rural, remote and peripheral regions in the last 50 years. However, in many places, tourism has failed to produce the promised benefits and often caused negative impacts due to a lack of local entrepreneurial capacity to benefit from tourism b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Education for Sustainability in Tourism
Sustainability is a dominant theme in tourism practice. Increasingly, research and education of tourism stakeholders is also necessary in improving sustainable tourism practice. This book pays systematic attention to education for sustainability in tourism, and is thus a valuable resource for sust... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Tourism and Generation Y
This book looks at Generation Y in a tourism context; in broad conceptual terms such as trends and behavior, and in applied terms, for example looking at particular types of travel that Generation Y takes part in, and tourism marketing aimed specifically at them. This volume aims to define and exami... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Managing Tourism and Hospitality Services: Theory and International Applications
The aim of this book is to enhance theoretical and practical understanding of quality management in tourism and hospitality. It provides a benchmark of current knowledge, and examines the range of research methods being applied to further develop tourism and hospitality service management research. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism: International Case Studies
Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism examines management responses to the major changes taking place in international tourism and considers tourism itself as an agent of change. Including twenty-two detailed case studies from around the world this book explores two key principles. Firstly that ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Tourist Shopping Villages: Forms and Functions (Routledge Advances in Tourism)
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 ar... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Visitor Management in Tourism Destinations (CABI Series in Tourism Management Research)
by Gianna Moscardo • Eric Laws • Paul Taylor • Haywantee Ramkissoon • Marília Durão • Professor Noel Scott • Azizul Hassan • Warwick Frost • Jennifer Laing • Mohammad Alazaizeh • Justyna Bakiewicz • Paul Barron • Jannes Bayer • Abhishek Bhati • Robert Burns • Maria João Carneiro • Astrid Fehringer • Jeffrey Hallo • Najmeh Hassanli • Florian Jurgeit • I-Ling Kuo • Anna Leask • Joohyun Lee • Günther Lehar • Theresa Leitner • Jasmine Moreira • Douglas Pearce • Philip Pearce • Tijana Rakic • Professor Brijesh ThapaVisitor management (VM) can be considered a component of destination management and involves a wide range of stakeholders. Within this unique text, key information is presented via foundation chapters, before moving in to critical concepts and influential factors. It then provides an illustration of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Tourism Transformations in Protected Area Gateway Communities
by Gianna Moscardo • C. Michael Hall • Kynda R. Curtis • Professor Chris Ryan • Dorothee Bohn • Andrea Zita Botelho • Kelly S. Bricker • Robert S. Bristow • Karina H. Casimiro • Rosa Suárez Chaparro • Ana Cristina Costa • Margaret J. Daniels • Edieser Dela Santa • Manuel Ramón Herrera • Russell M. Hicks • Julie Judkins • N. Qwynne Lackey • Natalya Lawrence • Gustavo C. Machado • Jake Powell • Sidnei Raimundo • Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan • Milena Manhães Rodrigues • Renato De Santos • Jessica A. Schottanes • Ole R. Sleipness • Maria Anunciação Ventura • Therez B. WalkerGateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022