Stop at the Red Apple (Excelsior Editions)
by Elaine Freed Lindenblatt
The British Columbia Bed & Breakfast Guide (British Columbia & Alberta Bed & Breakfast Guide)
by Sarah Bell
Animal Production and Rural Tourism in Mediterranean Regions (European Association for Animal Production, #74)
Animal production is an essential factor for the development of the rural environment as it contributes to the diversification of the rural landscape by promoting rural tourism and population settlement in rural areas. This is a compilation of the papers presented at the International Symposium on Animal Production and Rural Tourism in Mediterranean Regions organized by EAAP, FAO, CIHAEM and SNFEZ-EZN. The aim of this symposium was to stress the importance of animal production in the development...
Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality is the first textbook to offer students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on service providers as well as on customers, affecting both the supply and the demand sides of the industry – organisational behaviour, and human resource management, and marketing and consumer behaviour. Given the need for delivering superior customer value, understanding different cultures from both demand and s...
Great food for the great outdoors. Everyone enjoys a picnic, and this book proves how diverse meals alfresco can be. From delightfully messy children's parties to beach barbies, romantic riverbank lunches and the ultimate sandwich, this book is the definitive guide to the outdoor eating experience. Liberally scattered with advice and cheeky suggestions from literary greats Shakespeare, Hardy, Moley and Ratty.
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Planning and Control for Food and Beverage Operations
by Jack D Ninemeier
Dictionary of Geotourism
Geotourism is a new, emerging scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves the principles and methodologies of art, landscape architecture, environmental science and tourism in dealing with earth science issues of tourism activities and provides guidance to the establishment, management and protection of geoparks, forest parks and scenic areas. The Dictionary of Geotourism contains over 3,000 definitions, hundr...
Tourism is the world's biggest industry, encompassing many other industries from transport to hotel management, from resort development to destination marketing. This text offers a detailed introduction to the sector, looking at the structure and growth of the industry, both nationally and internationally. Designed for introductory students, the work outlines the key factors in the planning and development of tourism, and in economic, environmental and cultural contexts. Also included is an anal...
The Complete Guide to Greener Meetings and Events (The Wiley Event Management, #61)
by Samuel deBlanc Goldblatt
While there are many reasons to incorporate sustainable practices into meetings and events, including saving costs and resources, protecting the environment, improving social issues, doing business more efficiently and effectively and attracting new audiences, the number one reason to go green is to do business better. The book is divided into three parts, which reflect defining principles of greener meetings and events: Innovation, Conservation, and Education. This book broadly explores sustain...
Increasingly tourists are seeking learning and educational holidays. This interest has led to the provision of tourism product with some form of learning or education as an integral component, including cultural heritage tourism and ecotourism. The growth of offshore education and lifelong learning has stimulated cross-border movement for language learning, school excursions and university student travel. Reflecting this growth in educational tourism types, the author outlines the main forms of...
Managing Events, Festivals and the Visitor Economy
This edited text, intended to support a research-informed approach to learning and teaching, presents an array of concepts, collaborations and in-depth cases related to managing events, festivals and the visitor economy. Authors offer an array of philosophical, political, cultural, and ethical perspectives on how to achieve this across a range of contexts, from Cambodia, China, Egypt to the British cathedral city of Lincoln. Though recognising individual difference, each chapter unites in their...
This book explains the various concepts related to hospitality and tourism management. It provides a comprehensive picture of the industry and a way to manage it. The book starts with an introduction to the field of hospitality and tourism management. Its various dimensions are discussed subsequently. Key events that have made a significant impact on the industry are also discussed. The rapid of growth of this industry has created various lucrative profiles for future students and the chapter d...
"Transport for Tourism" assesses the effects of tourist travel and the challenges it poses for transport planners, providers and policy-makers in the 1990s. This book concerns the relationship between transport and tourism at an introductory level: the role of government policy; demand and supply relationships; quality control systems; health and sustainable transport systems; and environmental impact. These issues are illustrated through case studies on: transport in Bermuda; Singapore Airways;...
Marketing Tourism (Longman/ILAM Leisure Management S.)
by Alan Jefferson and Leonard Lickorish
The explanation of the principles of tourism and its marketing characteristics offered in this book should provide the framework for marketing planning and operation by all tourist interests in the public and private sectors. Full understanding of the role of the public sector tourist organizations representing the destination is fundamental, as they are responsible for the essence of the "product" and act as the key focal point. This is the reason for concentrating on their proper function whic...