Heritage Tourism
Heritage Tourism

Author: Yujie Zhu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1108912796

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As one of the world's fastest growing industries, heritage tourism is surrounded by political and ethical issues. This research explores the social and political effects and implications of heritage tourism through several pertinent topics. It examines the hegemonic power of heritage tourism and its consequences, the spectre of nationalism and colonialism in heritage-making, particularly for minorities and indigenous peoples, and the paradox of heritage tourism's role in combating these issues. Drawing from global cases, the study addresses a range of approaches and challenges of empowerment within the context of heritage tourism, including cultural landscapes, intangible heritage and eco-museums. The research argues that heritage tourism has the potential to develop as a form of co-production. It can be used to create a mechanism for community-centred governance that integrates recognition and interpretation and promotes dialogue, equity and diversity.

New Tourism in the 21st Century
New Tourism in the 21st Century

Author: Rubén C. Lois-González

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 144386188X

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This book analyses the cultural elements of 21st-century tourism. The structure of the book is based on four main issues, which will help further the reader’s understanding of present-day experiential tourism: namely urban and cultural tourism on a global scale; specific studies of new products linked to reappraising the landscape; heritage; and nature. It also examines the influence of branding and of the images projected in order to promote this new type of tourism, using both theoretical and general approaches. Finally, the Camino de Santiago is analysed as a paradigm of the new pilgrimage routes all over the world, with their implications and polysemic nature. Culture, nature, spirituality and urbanism are brought together in a series of studies of contemporary tourist activities. Tourism is, in short, an activity that marks the return of slow movement, of calm and relaxation, of the landscape and of self-rediscovery as a reappraised counterpoint to the frenetic pace of life in modern-day societies.

Travel Quest
Travel Quest

Author: Fraser Cartwright

Publisher:

Published: 2008-12-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195429473

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The second edition of Travel Quest brings students a brand new design and updated text to enhance students' discovery of fascinating world regions and the tourism industries that thrive there. An open design, full-colour photographs, and new maps shed light on places that students might liketo visit, while equipping them with the skills necessary to explore. This new edition is catered to the revised curriculum (2005), including new material on current events. Topics such as the influence of climate change and disease epidemics on the travel and tourism industry are paid particular attention. Activities built around geonumeracy as well as literacy tipswill enhance students' learning across all subjects. A new careers feature highlights employment opportunities within the travel and tourism industry. Written in socially-conscious, non-partisan terms, students are encouraged to form opinions and engage in lively debates. The accessibility of thetext will allow students at all levels to participate.

Nurturing Mobilities
Nurturing Mobilities

Author: Claire Maxwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1000463095

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Nurturing Mobilities employs new empirical material and an innovative theoretical framing to bring new clarity to why families travel today – and what happens when they do. The authors argue that an imperative to ‘think with mobility’ and to ‘aspire to be mobile’ shapes identities, futures, and family practices. Drawing on data that examines family travel practices – typically short-term trips – across the working-, middle-, and globally mobile middle-classes, Nurturing Mobilities describes how families travel, why they travel, and the role young family members play in curating family travel. Vitally, it examines the two biggest contemporary issues in global mobility: COVID-19 and climate change. How has COVID-19 changed travel motivations in a world beset by lockdowns and diminished finances? How are concerns around climate change, and engagements with global citizenship education, changing family travel practices? Nurturing Mobilities illuminates new ways in which social class divergence is forged through movements across borders. The authors’ theoretically inter-disciplinary approach delivers a full analysis of the apparently divergent processes that differentiate family travel along social class lines, yet also allow travel to play a core role in social mobility. This book is a vital resource for scholars and students studying mobility, globalisation, social class, and climate change engagement.

The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road

Author: World Tourism Organization

Publisher:

Published: 2019-02-27

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9789284418732

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The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is a key component of China's Belt and Road Initiative and, as such, can play a crucial role in the development of maritime infrastructure throughout Asia and the Pacific in the coming years. This report, developed with the kind support of Sunny International, looks into the overall impacts of the Maritime Silk Road on tourism and assesses the tourism potential of Maritime Silk Road thematic routes across Asia and beyond. The report shows that cruise tourism, targeted investments in decayed maritime infrastructure and the reutilization of ancient port cities can reinvigorate available heritage, support local communities and help diversify a country's tourism sector.

Adventure Tourism and Outdoor Activities Management
Adventure Tourism and Outdoor Activities Management

Author: Ian Jenkins

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2019-02-04

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1786390868

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An essential resource for those wishing to understand the key factors behind the operation of an adventure tourism company and how to be able to deliver a profitable as well as a sustainable product. It discusses important factors such as how the use of technologies and the current importance of environmental impacts and climate change are areas that are key to adventure tourism firms. To remain profitable companies need to address these issues along with the important elements of risk and safety. Created from the author's experience in delivering adventure tourism courses over the last 20 years, this long-awaited book is aimed at both university courses on adventure tourism and outdoor recreation as well as those working within the industry.

Events Tourism
Events Tourism

Author: Violet V. Cuffy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1000215865

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This book presents critical insights and contemporary perspectives for exploring current trends, concerns and prospects of events tourism. It examines modern-day global issues facing the events and tourism industry, policymakers, researchers and academics to advance understanding of practice and development of theory. Organised in four parts, this book examines how events tourism is designed, planned and delivered. The first part engages with the core, fundamental concepts of events tourism which establish a basic understanding of the field. The second part addresses contemporary issues related to visitor attractions, music festivals, small and user-generated events, wanderlust and entrepreneurship. The third part focuses on meetings and challenges in the conference industry after disasters, the economic impact and other dilemmas of mega-events, and city and destination concerns. The fourth and final part provides a peek into the future of events tourism vis-à-vis reshaping cities, music festivals and critical dilemmas of the 21st century. With an international appeal because of cross-national contributions, this book will interest events and tourism practitioners, academics, students, researchers, policymakers, and business and investment sector professionals across the globe.

Business of Travel and Tourism in the 21st Century: A Caribbean Approach
Business of Travel and Tourism in the 21st Century: A Caribbean Approach

Author: Angela B. Cleare

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1483450589

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A comprehensive tourism manual, with contributions from top industry experts from The Bahamas and the Caribbean. Designed primarily for high school and college students in the Caribbean region as well as those interested in furthering their tourism career. "I congratulate and thank Angela Cleare and her contributing partners for this outstanding contribution to travel and tourism literature from a Caribbean perspective. It is obvious that a great deal of work has gone into this well-written book which covers all the elements of the travel and tourism industry as they relate to the region. I believe this will be not only an indispensable textbook for teachers and students and a handbook for investors and others directly involved in the industry but also a publication of interest to all of us who are in one way or another affected by the industry. I am particularly pleased to see the attention paid to ecotourism and the relationship between the industry and the environment." -Arthur A. Foulkes

America Day by Day
America Day by Day

Author: Simone de Beauvoir

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-03-30

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780520210677

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A portrait of 1940s America by a French writer, eg. "The constipated girl smiles a loving smile at the lemon juice that relieves her intestines. In the subway, in the streets, on magazine pages, these smiles pursue me like obsessions. I read on a sign in a drugstore, 'Not to grin is a sin.' Everyone obeys the order, the system. 'Cheer up! Take it easy.' Optimism is necessary for the country's social peace and economic prosperity."