The Farewell Tourist
The Farewell Tourist

Author: Alison Glenny

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781988531298

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The magnetic process -- Drift -- Footnotes to The heroic age -- Footnotes to A history of the atmosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the cryosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the honeymoon -- Footnotes to A history of climate -- Appendix 1. Magnetic traces -- Appendix 2. Correspondence.

The Naked Tourist
The Naked Tourist

Author: Lawrence Osborne

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2007-06-12

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1429934980

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From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway—a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he ended up in the harrowing forests of Papua, searching for a people who have never seen a tourist. What, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and "back to nature" trips? What does tourism, the world's single largest business, have to sell? A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, The Naked Tourist is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of The Accidental Connoisseur, praised by The New York Times Book Review as "smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible."

The Apprentice Tourist
The Apprentice Tourist

Author: Mário de Andrade

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-04-04

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0593511301

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A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the Amazon A Penguin Classic “My life’s done a somersault,” wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, and almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South America in In Patagonia, Andrade, the queer mixed-race “pope” of Brazilian modernism and author of the epic novel Macunaíma, finally embarks on a three-month steamboat voyage up the great river and into one of the most dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful corners of the world. Rife with shrewd observations and sparkling wit, and featuring more than a dozen photographs, The Apprentice Tourist not only offers an awed and awe-inspiring fish-out-of-water account of the Indigenous peoples and now-endangered landscapes of Brazil that he encounters (and, comically, sometimes fails to reach), but also traces his internal metamorphosis: The trip prompts him to rethink his ingrained Eurocentrism, challenges his received narratives about the Amazon, and alters the way he understands his motherland and the vast diversity of cultures found within it.

Bancroft's Tourist's Guide
Bancroft's Tourist's Guide

Author: A. L. Bancroft

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-03-16

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 3382134950

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Marketing and Management Sciences
Marketing and Management Sciences

Author: Damianos P. Sakas

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 1848165099

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This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference of Marketing and Management Sciences held from 23 to 25 May 2008 in Athens, Greece. The papers focus on how globalization has had significant impact on companies, societies and individuals alike. They discuss the need for new strategies and practices that can help cope with changes that arise due to globalization. Written in a simple manner, this book will be of interest to academics studying and teaching marketing and management courses and to managers dealing with strategies to cope with changes due to globalization.