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  • The Challenge of Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment

    Theory and Practice

    by Harry Coccossis, Alexandra Mexa ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Planning and management for tourism growth is becoming essential in the context of sustainable development. Particularly so since many tourist destinations are facing severe pressures from tourist flows and activities. Such pressures are evidenced in terms of dysfunctions (congestion, environmental degradation, etc) which ultimately affect the attraction and competitiveness of tourism destinations ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Food and Drink Tourism

    Principles and Practice

    by Sally Everett ...
    Dedicated to the growing field of food and drink tourism and culinary engagement, Sally Everett offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject, embracing theories and examples from numerous subject disciplines.Through a combination of critical theory reflections, real-life case studies, media excerpts and activities, examples of food and drink tourism around the world as well as a focus on ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Health and Wellness Tourism

    Spas and Hot Springs

    by Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Prof. Malcolm Cooper ...
    Series Book 40 - Aspects of Tourism
    Geothermal springs constitute a major tourism resource, providing spectacular settings, recreation facilities, a recognised value in treatments beneficial for health and wellness, a sense of heritage and adventure, and links with the natural environment. Health and wellness tourism accounts for a significant proportion of the world’s tourism consumption, with components ranging from hot spring ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Thinking Through Tourism

    Edited by Julie Scott, Tom Selwyn ...
    Series series Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
    The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of Anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the Anthropology of Tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes.An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as hospitality, sex and tourism, enchantment, colonial and neo-colonial consumption, the relation between ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Leadership and Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry

    by Chris Sheppardson, Heather Gibson ...
    Many aspire to be leaders and entrepreneurs where they too could set the tone of business. This is particularly true in the hospitality industry where entrepreneurship is a dominant force, yet few people understand what it demands to be a leader in the sector. Much has been written over the years about leadership and entrepreneurship; this insightful and widely researched new book is unique ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    by Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Open Restaurants That Flourish

    A Restauranteurs' Guide to Opening New Sites and Building a Leading Brand

    by Alisa Newey ...
    Growing a business and opening new restaurants is no easy task and often business owners don’t know where to start. The gap between mum and dad business owners that open one successful restaurant and the leading brands that open a new restaurant every couple of weeks seems vast. Having worked alongside food business owners to open new restaurants for the past three years, Alisa Newey has first ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Food and Wine Festivals and Events Around the World

    Edited by C. Michael Hall, Liz Sharples ...
    Food and Wine Festivals and Events Around the World is a pioneering text that recognises the importance of this rapidly growing aspect of the tourism industry. Food and wine festivals and events play a significant role in rural and urban development and regeneration and the impacts of these events can be far ranging at a social, political, economic and environmental level. This innovative book ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Industrial Heritage Tourism

    by Dr. Philip Feifan Xie ...
    Series Book 43 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy, and to better understand how the collective social memory and local identity connected to these sites have been shaped by different social groups over time. The ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Event Policy

    From Theory to Strategy

    by Malcolm Foley, David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson ...
    As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive ‘events’ policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation.Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to embrace this new direction in the field of events management. Its main aim is to locate the phenomena ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Waterways and the Cultural Landscape

    Edited by Francesco Vallerani, Francesco Visentin ...
    Series series Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
    Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new typologies of waterscapes with significant implications for the people who resided within them.This book explores the role of waterways as a form of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Asian Genders in Tourism

    Edited by Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore, Paolo Mura ...
    Series Book 75 - Aspects of Tourism
    While gender research in tourism has become increasingly important within Western academic circles, little has been written from an Asian perspective. This book is the first to address this knowledge gap and to fully explore Asian gendered identities and tourism. The chapters reflect upon the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia. The ... Read more

    $14.29 USD