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  • Place Reinvention

    Northern Perspectives

    by Arvid Viken ...
    Through an interdisciplinary range of case studies from across the Northern rim of Europe, this volume shows how place reinvention as a concept affects not only global cities but also marginal regions. Linking place reinvention to the economic, the symbolic and the political production of space, the volume puts forward insights into how 'marginal areas' understand their role in the global ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Tourism Destination Development

    Turns and Tactics

    Edited by Arvid Viken, Brynhild Granås ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Although blurred and heavily contested, the concept of ’tourist destination’ still deserves careful attention. Despite its unstable characteristics, ’destination’ is a central and meaningful term in play among all parties in the field of tourism, including tourists, tourism operators, and politicians, as well as students and tourism scholars. This anthology draws on different approaches and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic

    Edited by Dr. Arvid Viken, Dr. Dieter K. Müller ...
    Series Book 51 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This is the first book to exclusively address tourism and indigenous peoples in the circumpolar North. It examines how tourism in indigenous communities is influenced by academic and political discourses, and how these communities are influenced by tourism. The volume focuses on the ambivalence relating to tourism as a modern force within ethnic groups who are concerned with maintaining indigenous ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    The multiple award-winning Restaurant Manager’s Handbook is the best-selling book on running a successful food service operation. Now in the 4th completely revised edition, nine new chapters detail restaurant layout, new equipment, and principles for creating a successful business. ... Read more

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  • Megaprojects and Risk

    An Anatomy of Ambition

    by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter ...
    Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an unhealthy cocktail of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Tourist Attractions

    From Object to Narrative

    by Johan R. Edelheim ...
    Series Book 46 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Tourist attractions constitute the metaphorical 'heart' of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, how we perceive them and how we can enhance our understanding of what attracts us as tourists. The volume reaches beyond current ideas about the ways tourist attractions are created, shaped and packaged. It focuses on the importance and subjective ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Smart City

    How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

    Edited by Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Hospitality Branding

    by Chekitan S. Dev ...
    Series series Cornell Hospitality Management: Best Practices
    In recent years the brand has moved squarely into the spotlight as the key to success in the hospitality industry. Business strategy once began with marketing and incorporated branding as one of its elements; today the brand drives marketing within the larger hospitality enterprise. Not only has it become the chief means of attracting customers, it has, more broadly, become the chief organizing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Handbook of LGBT Tourism and Hospitality

    A Guide for Business Practice

    by Jeff Guaracino, Ed Salvato ...
    To research this book, the authors traveled to six continents, interviewed nearly a hundred industry experts, and analyzed multiple emerging trends among LGBT travelers. The Handbook of LGBT Tourism and Hospitality is an easy-to-read, practical, and relevant guidebook with a simple goal: to help marketing professionals, business owners, and allied professionals compete in the increasingly ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Growing Green

    The Economic Benefits of Climate Action

    by Uwe Deichmann, Fan Zhang ...
    Series series Europe and Central Asia Reports
    Pollution from fossil fuels and degraded natural lands are raising the earth’s temperature. The evidence of the causes of global warming is clear, as are its consequences. The economic impacts of climate change are already apparent and they threaten development gains. Extreme weather events have brought severe droughts to Central Asia, heat waves and forest fires to Russia, and floods to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rural Tourism Development

    Localism and Cultural Change

    by Prof. E. Wanda George, Heather Mair, Prof. Donald G. Reid ...
    Series Book 17 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with ... Read more

    $23.99 USD