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  • Philosophies of Hospitality and Tourism
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    Philosophies of hospitality and tourism

    This book introduces readers to philosophies of hospitality and tourism. It provides insights into classic philosophical concepts and explains how these can inform the actions of tourism stakeholders, practitioners, hosts and tourists. The discussion of philanthropy is a strength of the book and ...

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  • Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in China
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    Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in china

    This book examines the relationship between intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and tourism, taking as a focus the ICH at the World Cultural Heritage site in Lijiang, China. It explores the tensions between authenticity and commodification and provides theoretical guidelines for developing a susta...

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  • Tourism and Earthquakes
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    Tourism and earthquakes

    This book examines the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the measures for managing tourism after earthquakes and examines the means to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes. It provides insights into the ethical, commercial and socioeconomic...

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  • Tourism and Cricket
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    Tourism and cricket

    This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

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  • Gay Tourism
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    Gay tourism

    This book examines the emerging and shifting issues in the field of gay tourism, how these relate to significant societal and technological changes and the implications of these changes for theory, policy and practice. It will be a useful resource for students, lecturers and researchers in touris...

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  • Railway Heritage and Tourism
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    Railway heritage and tourism

    This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It explores the challenges faced by developers and operators of railway heritage destinations including financial, legal and managerial sustainability in t...

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  • Tourism in the Arab World
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    Tourism in the arab world

    This book is the first to explore Arabic tourism from a business viewpoint and focuses on business planning, management and marketing destinations in the Arab World. It examines similarities and differences in the emergence and development of the tourism industry in countries across the Arab worl...

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  • Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes and Flooding
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    Tourism, cyclones, hurricanes and flooding

    This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available to manage tourism after major storms and floods, examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of these disasters on tourism, and provides insights into the ethical issu...

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  • The Local Turn in Tourism
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    The local turn in tourism

    This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies way...

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  • Nordic Tourism
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    Nordic tourism

    Tourism is an increasingly important industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) that is integral to economic, social and sustainable development. This book is includes case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resource...

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  • Poverty and Development
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    Poverty and development

    This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to broaden understandings of poverty. It contains empirical and conceptual chapters on a range of topics highlighting the relationship between poverty and sustainability. It will be a helpful resource for students and researchers of sustain...

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  • Future Tourism in a Robonomic World
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    Future tourism in a robonomic world

    This book envisions the future of tourism in an economy that is largely automated. An economic system that relies on robots, AI and automation technologies for the production of goods and delivery of services instead of human labour is known as ‘robonomics’. The volume explores the challenges of ...

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  • Tea and Tourism
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    Tea and tourism

    Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Traditions and Transformations outlines the social, political and developmental contexts of using tea cultures for tourism. Case studies of tea tourism destinations and products from around the world are included, for example from the UK; Sri Lanka; India; China; Taiwan...

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  • Official Tourism Websites
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    Official tourism websites

    This text explores tourism websites as mediums of identity construction and promotion. As interactive modes of communication, tourism websites for nations, cities, and attractions function critically in the new capitalism as calls for social action in contributing to economic and social rebirth, ...

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  • Human Resources and Tourism
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    Human resources and tourism

    This book combines theoretical and practical aspects of applied human resources management using a critical lens. It is both a descriptive and analytical journey through the tourism sector which, due to its nature, may be described as a relatively deregulated and eclectic industry.

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  • Cultural Heritage and Tourism
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    Cultural heritage and tourism

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism, as well as applied knowledge. The 2nd edition expands on timely and emerging topics and includes up-to-date data, statistics, re...

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  • Travel, Tourism and the Moving Image
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    Travel, tourism and the moving image

    This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place and can affect our deci...

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  • Codes of Ethics in Tourism
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    Codes of ethics in tourism

    This volume provides a timely and intensive look at the theory and practice of codes of ethics in tourism. It includes a broad overview of what has been done to date in tourism studies in the area of code development and implementation and incorporates theoretical work from outside the tourism fi...

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  • Re-Investing Authenticity
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    Re-investing authenticity

    This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling. Drawing on a range of perspectives and cases, it explores how the feeling of authenticity withi...

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  • The Impact of Tourism in East Africa
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    The impact of tourism in east africa

    This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. T...

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  • Health and Wellness Tourism
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    Health and wellness tourism

    The use of natural geothermal springs in the treatment of illness and the promotion of wellness forms the foundation for a discussion of the development and growth of health and wellness tourism in this book. A range of perspectives are explored, including usage, heritage, management, technology,...

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