Tourists and Tourism
Author: Sharon Gmelch
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781577666363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The impact of global tourism research is evident throughout this meticulously edited collection." -- BOOK JACKET.
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Author: Sharon Gmelch
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781577666363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The impact of global tourism research is evident throughout this meticulously edited collection." -- BOOK JACKET.
Author: Marita Sturken
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780822341222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVStudy of how the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism./div
Author: Elizabeth Becker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1439161003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, Elizabeth Becker traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month--then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Becker's sharp depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways"--
Author: Jeff Hobbs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-04-24
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1416539727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet the tourists, former classmates at Yale who, seven years later, must confront the people they've become while forging lives in Manhattan. David, a hedge fund wunderkind who forfeited idealism for wealth, hopes that a more fulfilling life lies ahead in the suburbs. His wife, the beautiful Samona, to whom David returns home nightly with nothing left for her, wonders whether her marriage is stripping away her best years. Ethan, a successful furniture designer with a magnetic sexuality, seeks something darker and more uncertain than the power lunches, needy family, and unsatisfying relationships that comprise his life. Rounding out the group is the story's unnamed narrator, a freelance reporter struggling to stay afloat -- financially, professionally, and emotionally -- who shares complicated histories with each of them. When Ethan and Samona have a chance encounter at a gallery opening, they meet each other's needs. As our narrator traverses the city and gradually reconstructs the events that underlie the present circumstances, his own mysterious role comes into ever sharper focus. Only later, after David commissions Ethan to design some conference rooms at his firm and a secret triangle is formed, does our narrator begin to tie all the pieces together. With The Tourists, Jeff Hobbs delivers a striking and stylish debut about the dark and sometimes destructive aspects of physical attraction and love, marital disillusionment, and the inevitable disappointments life can bring.
Author: Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 147863703X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike earlier editions, the Third Edition of Tourists and Tourism is organized for use in the classroom. While several classic and popular articles from the second edition have been retained, three-quarters are new and cover important areas in tourism studies such as dark tourism, medical tourism, nonvisual sensory experiences of tourism, and tourism as performance. Several address issues that directly relate to the student experience, including study abroad, service learning, social media, and the ethics of travel. Articles vary in length and style; some provide deeper context, while others are designed to spark debate in the classroom. Finally, an introduction to the use of film in teaching about tourism and a link to an important film resource are provided.
Author: Lee Jolliffe
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1845410564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Tea and Tourism' outlines the social, political and developmental contexts of using tea culture for tourism. Case studies of tea tourism destinations and products from around the world are included, from example from the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, India, China, Taiwan, Kenya and Canada.
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 1644
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 954
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-06-02
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1134160410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTourism is an intensely geographic phenomenon. It stimulates large-scale, global movement of people and forges distinctive relationships between people and the places they visit. It shapes processes of physical development and resource exploitation, whilst the presence of visitors exerts a range of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts that often have important implications for local geographies. This second edition of Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of tourism are created and maintained. Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, the discussion – which is in three main parts – connects tourism to key geographical concepts relating to globalization, mobility, new geographies of production and consumption, and post-industrial change. Part one examines how spatial patterns of tourism are formed and evolve through time. Part two offers an extended discussion of how tourism relates to places that are toured, examining physical and economic development, socio-cultural and environmental relations and the role of tourism planning. Part three develops a range of new material for this second edition that considers important contemporary influences upon tourism geographies, including place promotion, new forms of urban tourism, heritage, identity and embodied forms of tourism. Featuring international case studies and supported by up-to-date statistics, the text offers a concise yet comprehensive review of tourism geography and how geographers can interpret this important contemporary process. Written primarily as a student text, each chapter includes guidance for further study and summary bibliographies that form the basis for independent work.
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1924
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