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“karl agius”

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  • Islandscapes and Tourism

    An Anthology

    by Dr Solene Prince, Karl Agius, Hokulani K. Aikau, Susie Khamis, Alexander Araya López, Adam Burke, Kaytee Canfield, Colin Filer0, Simon Foale1, Jennifer Gabriel2, Vernadette Gonzalez3, Donald V.L. Macleod4, Rosario Navalón-García5, Stephen Royle6, Michael Wood7, Keir J. Reeves8 ...
    The links between islands and tourism, as sights of pleasure is embodied in the touristification of sun, sand and sea. Islandscapes are central to the tourist imaginaries that shape islands as touristified places - curated, designed and commodified for both mass tourism and more niche inclined versions. Yet while islands are parlayed for touristic pleasure seekers, islands are also home to ... Read more

    $124.79 USD

  • Managing Visitor Experiences in Nature-based Tourism

    by Mick Abbott, Karl Agius, Mary E. Allen, George Ariya, Rocío Blanco-Gregory, Cameron Boyle, Robert C. Burns, Kadir Çakar, Eugenio Conti, Fernando Enseñat-Soberanis, Sonia Ferrari, Peter Fredman, Azizul Hassan, Stuart Hayes, Nicolaia Iaffaldano, Woody Lee, Tiago Lopes, Brent Lovelock, Andrés Ried Luci, Lusine Margaryan, Johnathan Mondragón-Mejía, Ana Goytia Prat, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Francisco Silva, Jeffrey C. Skibins, Ismail Uzut ...
    This book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents. Presented as three topics, the contents discuss tourism and nature-based experiences by looking at the role and relevance of nature and the uniqueness of such experiences. The book ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Little Book of Javascript

    by Karl Agius ...
    A very short book about JavaScript, explaining some basic concepts like closures, objects, and other things which someone who is new to the language is likely to miss. It will not teach you scripting from the ground up, but it can be used as a handy guide to what the hell is going on. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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    Understanding Diverse Relationships

    Edited by Kevin Markwell ...
    Series Book 67 - Aspects of Tourism
    This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect, whether as tourist attractions, wildlife conservation tools, as travel companions or as meat to be eaten. It aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between animals, tourists and the tourism industry. The chapters are organised into three themes: ethics ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Transdisciplinary Marine Research

    Bridging Science and Society

    Edited by Sílvia Gómez, Vera Köpsel ...
    Series series Earthscan Oceans
    Drawing on the expertise of marine researchers from both the natural and social sciences, this book examines how we, as both scientists and societies, can return to a sustainable co-existence with the ocean and use the tools of transdisciplinarity to bring together the diverse forms of knowledge needed to achieve this important task.The marine sciences play a vital role in producing and providing ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Taking Tourism to the Limits

    Edited by Michelle Aicken, Stephen J. Page, Chris Ryan ...
    The concept of margins and limits is often referred to within the tourism academic literature and includes subjects as diverse as carrying capacities, peripheral economies, technological advancement, adventure tourism, dark tourism and socially marginalized communities. After identifying a number of ways in which ‘limits’ might be defined Taking Tourism to the Limits explores concepts and ... Read more

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  • Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning

    Edited by Dianne Dredge, John Jenkins ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Analyses of contemporary tourism planning and policymaking practice at local to global scales is lacking and there is an urgent need for research that informs theory and practice. Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically-informed, international case studies constructed through storytelling, this volume expands readers' knowledge about how tourism planning and policymaking takes place. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Consumer Tribes in Tourism

    Contemporary Perspectives on Special-Interest Tourism

    Edited by Christof Pforr, Ross Dowling, Michael Volgger ...
    This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on ‘special interest tourism’ and ‘niche tourism’ as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo‐tribes. It promotes a shift in perspective away from special interest tourism understood as a sum of similarly motivated ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Understanding Tropical Coastal and Island Tourism Development

    Edited by Klaus Meyer-Arendt, Alan A. Lew ...
    This volume contains a collection of articles that include both case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenges of tropical coastal and island destinations throughout the world. Topics include the shortcoming of (eco)tourism in Madagascar, collaboration theory and successful multi-stakeholder partnerships on Indonesian resort islands, resilience theory and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Island Tourism Sustainability and Resiliency

    Edited by Michelle McLeod, Rachel Dodds, Richard Butler ...
    This book provides comprehensive insight into the challenges faced by island tourism destinations and theoretical and practical paths for built in sustainability and resiliency. It explores Island Tourism Resilience within the context of ‘Lifecycles, System Decline and Resilience’.Tourism is a key activity for many islands, and some depend on the tourism sector as a main economic activity. An ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

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  • Tourist Behaviour

    Themes and Conceptual Schemes

    by Prof. Philip L. Pearce ...
    Series Book 27 - Aspects of Tourism
    Tourism is an inherently social phenomenon. Tourists travel with others and experience places and cultures through interacting with both familiar and unfamiliar others. This volume presents a thorough tour of the social psychological processes which underpin contemporary travel. The fascinating phenomenon of tourist behaviour deals with topics such as motivation, destination choice, travellers' on ... Read more

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