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Gastronomy, Tourism and the Media
This book examines and analyses the connections between gastronomy, tourism and the media. It argues that in the modern world, gastronomy is increasingly a major component and driver of tourism and that destinations are using their cuisines and food cultures in marketing to increase their competitiv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Exhibitions, Trade Fairs and Industrial Events (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series)
This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of the breadth and scope of exhibitions, trade fairs and other industrial events as a marketing tool or channel. Industrial Events are planned events that are staged with the primary aim of marketing businesses, industries and products. This may... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Royal Events: Rituals, Innovations, Meanings (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series)
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... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series)
Many events have evolved over centuries, drawing on local customs and conditions. However, as the world becomes increasingly globalised, traditional events and the identities they support are increasingly being challenged and rituals may be lost. Reacting against this trend towards homogeneity, comm... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Commemorative Events: Memory, Identities, Conflict (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series)
Commemorative Events emphasise remembering. They are held on the anniversaries of significant past events, either annually or after significant time periods. Commemorative events provide fascinating insight into how societies see themselves, their heritage and their identity. These events however ca... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture – whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video games. The West combines myth and history, rugged natural scenery and wide open spaces, popular culture and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Books and Travel
The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multidisciplinary work provides a critical analysis of the inspirational and transformational role that books play in travel imaginings. Does reading a book e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism
This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Everything Personal Finance in Your 40s and 50s Book
by Jennifer Lane • Bill LaneEvery day, more than 10,000 people turn forty in the United States, moving toward retirement without traditional pension plans backing them up. Lacking the safety net that protected their parents and grandparents, they're forced to take the initiative for their own financial security. They need a so... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
The Everything Personal Finance in Your 40s and 50s Book
by Jennifer Lane • Bill LaneEvery day, more than 10,000 people turn forty in the United States, moving toward retirement without traditional pension plans backing them up. Lacking the safety net that protected their parents and grandparents, they’re forced to take the initiative for their own financial security. They need a so... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Health Inequities in Conflict-affected Areas: Armed Violence, Survival and Post-Conflict Recovery in the Indo-Bhutan Borderlands
This book provides an insight into the issue of health inequity brought about by the violent conflict in Northeast India. While examining the deep vulnerabilities and loss of well-being suffered by families displaced by conflict in the Indo-Bhutan borderland region, the authors raise fundamental que... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
On Best Behavior
Planning a wedding is never easy-especially when the Russian Mafia wants you dead. On Best Behavior-the third and final book in The Conduct Series-finds our favorite couple moving forward, despite the odds. Following a pardon by the Governor of Illinois, ex-cons Sophie Taylor and Grant Madsen are fi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The CONduct Series Box Set
The three book box set of The CONduct Series by Jennifer Lane includes With Good Behavior, Bad Behavior, and On Best Behavior. With Good Behavior: The romantic leads in With Good Behavior are two law-abiding citizens who unwittingly got mixed up with a Mafia capo, Logan Barberi, which led them both ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
With Good Behavior
In a world gripped by organized crime, family dysfunction, and dim hopes of redemption, can true love persevere? For Sophie Taylor, a beautiful psychologist who lost everything when she violated an ethical boundary, and Grant Madsen, a handsome naval officer who sacrificed everything to protect a lo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Lost Season of Love and Snow: A Novel
"A captivating tale in which Natalya Pushkin is vividly imagined. [A] sensitive and skillfully written novel... sure to enchant." - Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came HomeThe unforgettable story of Alexander Pushkin’s beautiful wife, Natalya, a woman much admired at... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Streamline
Seems like Leo Scott has it all: looks, brains, and athletic talent. He's captain of his high school swim team with a bright future in college and beyond. But Leo has secrets. His mother's crippling car accident has devastated his family and left Leo to deal with his father's abuse, battered and alo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Swim Recruit
Not long after Abby Donahue's family falls apart, she escapes on an airplane to Chicago for a recruiting trip. A talented high-school swimmer, Abby hopes to score both a college scholarship and some distance from her parents' recent divorce. But is this university for her? Her first encounter with ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Bad Behavior
Grant Madsen's got issues. He's still battling his Mafia family and doing everything possible to keep his loved ones safe. With the cruising season coming to an end, he has to find another job soon or he'll rejoin his father in prison. And he's trying to convince his rebellious teenage nephew to sta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Positive Tourism (Routledge Advances in Tourism)
Tourism affects millions of individuals, numerous societies and environments in multiple, nuanced and overlapping ways. While it can be viewed as a frivolous leisure pursuit or simply a large industry, with potentially destructive impacts, it might also be understood in terms of its effects on human... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Fashion, Design and Events (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series)
The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand destina... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Soaring in Style: How Amelia Earhart Became a Fashion Icon
Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the stars. But the dresses women had to wear at the time made those dreams seem almost impossible. Amelia didn't let that stop her. As a young aviator breaking records and expectations, she learned to fly her plane wit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Asia's Entrepreneurs: Dilemmas, Risks and Opportunities
This book is a collection of technology startup cases in Asia, told in a narrative form, to give readers an insider view to how innovators and technopreneurs view entrepreneurial opportunities from use of technology, how the technopreneurs raise funding to support their vision, and the subsequent re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Literary Tourism: Theories, Practice and Case Studies
by Bernadette Quinn • Lénia Marques • Nadzeya Charapan • Anniken Greve • Humberto Fois-Braga • Warwick Frost • Jennifer Laing • Hanna Mikulich • Madelene Blaer • Kelley A. McClinchey • Klaus Pfatschbacher • Giulia Rossetti • Alana N. Seaman • Anukrati Sharma • Tom M.J. SintobinLiterary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and stories. Providing a wide-ranging cornucopia of literary tourism topics, this book fully explores the interconnections between the written word and travel. It includes tourism... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
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 -
Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy
This book provides new insights on the unique role of graduate students within Christian higher education. Weaving together a variety of voices-doctoral students, new faculty, and seasoned scholars-with findings from empirical qualitative research, the book examines how faith and stewardship guide ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018