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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “takamitsu jimura”
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  • Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Japan

    by Takamitsu Jimura ...
    Series series Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
    This book offers a comprehensive understanding of cultural heritage in Japan and its relationship with both domestic and international tourism.Japan has witnessed an increase in tourism, with rising visitor numbers to both established destinations and lesser known sites. This has generated greater attention towards various aspects of Japanese culture, heritage and society. This book explores these ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sustainability Management in Heritage and Tourism

    The Concept and Practice of Mottainai in Japan

    by Takamitsu Jimura ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Increasingly, the tourism industry is looking towards sustainability, responding to public demand and local environmental policy. This monograph explores the concept of sustainability in the context of heritage and tourism studies, as well as examining the practices adopted to realize or enhance the sustainability of these industries. Beginning with a broad overview, outlining the theory and ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • World Heritage Sites

    Tourism, Local Communities and Conservation Activities

    by Prof Takamitsu Jimura ...
    Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, with World Heritage Site designations increasing year-on-year. This book reviews the important interrelations between the industry, local communities and conservation work, bringing together the various opportunities and challenges for different destinations. World Heritage status is a strong marketing brand, and proper heritage management and ... Read more

    $49.89 USD

  • Tourism Ethnographies

    Ethics, Methods, Application and Reflexivity

    Edited by Hazel Andrews, Takamitsu Jimura, Laura Dixon ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology
    How is ethnography practiced in the context of tourism? As a multi- and interdisciplinary area of academic enquiry, the use of ethnography to study tourism is found in an increasingly diverse number of settings.This book is a collection of essays that discuss the practice of ethnography in tourism settings. Scholars from different countries share their work. Reflecting on their experiences, each ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Urban Regeneration

    Changing Spaces in Historical Places

    Edited by Nicholas Wise, Takamitsu Jimura ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Urban regeneration is often regarded as the process of renewal or redevelopment of spaces and places. There is a need to look at tourism and urban regeneration with a particular focus on cultural heritage. Cultural heritage consists of tangible heritage (such as historic buildings) and intangible heritage (such as events). The wider need and impact for such work is that places plan for change to ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

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  • Community as Urban Practice

    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Tourism, Tourists and Society

    by Richard Sharpley ...
    Tourism, Tourists and Society provides a broad introduction to the inter-relationship between tourism and society, making complex sociological concepts and themes accessible to readers from a non-sociological academic background. It provides a thorough exploration of how society influences or shapes the behaviours, motivations, attitudes and consumption of tourists, as well as the tourism impacts ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Tourism, Power and Space

    by Andrew Church, Tim Coles ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    This is the first volume to explicitly consider how leisure and tourism acts as a major focus by which power may be understood in a geographical context.Key thinking and major approaches to unravelling the complexities of power are outlined in this collection and their relevance to current and future tourism studies is discussed. Tourism, Power and Space blends theoretical perspectives from ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Slum Tourism

    Poverty, Power and Ethics

    Edited by Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Spatializing Culture

    The Ethnography of Space and Place

    by Setha Low ...
    This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Marketing Rural Tourism

    Experience and Enterprise

    by Gunjan Saxena ...
    Rural tourism marketing is a subject that remains significantly under-researched. Gunjan Saxena seeks to encourage a fuller understanding of rural tourism marketing by uncovering the lived experiences and enterprise of different actor groups as they respond to the impact of tourism on their communities and cultural identities.Marketing Rural Tourism presents actor narratives to reveal nuances ... Read more

    $35.99 USD