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“marguerite shaffer”

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  • See America First

    Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940

    by Marguerite Shaffer ...
    In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birth of modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourism to the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems, print media, a national market, and a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First slogan and idea employed at different times by railroads, guidebook publishers, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Cookery for the Hospitality Industry

    by Graham Dodgshun, Michel Peters, David O'Dea ...
    A must-have book for thirty years, and now in its sixth edition, Cookery for the Hospitality Industry remains Australia's most trusted and reliable reference for commercial cookery students, apprentice chefs and those studying vocational courses in schools. It covers the essential skills, methods and principles of cookery as well as the core competencies listed within the Australian National ... Read more

    $107.49 USD

  • Tourism, Culture and Development

    Hopes, Dreams and Realities in East Indonesia

    by Dr. Stroma Cole ...
    Series Book 12 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Can tourism help a poor remote community to develop? How much does tourism change a village? How can a village have the benefits tourism offers without the problems it can cause? These are the questions that lie at the core of this text. Using an anthropologist’s eye and a high degree of trust, this book uncovers the story of tourism development in two small villages on a remote island of Eastern ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Marine Ecotourism

    Issues and Experiences

    Edited by Dr. Brian Garrod, Dr. Julie Wilson ...
    Series Book 7 - Aspects of Tourism
    Marine ecotourism is a major growth area within ecotourism, itself a rapidly expanding area within tourism as a whole. The activity has been attracting increasing attention, both from the popular media and from professionals and academics with an interest in tourism’s potential to contribute to sustainable development. However, there is a growing consensus that far too often the term has been used ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Slow Tourism

    Experiences and Mobilities

    Edited by Dr. Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Dr. Erica Wilson ...
    Series Book 54 - Aspects of Tourism
    Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Challenges in Tourism Research

    Edited by Tej Vir Singh ...
    Series Book 70 - Aspects of Tourism
    In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the ‘tourist’, the long-term sustainability ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    by Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Events and Urban Regeneration

    The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities

    by Andrew Smith ...
    In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising from new venues, these events are viewed as a way of stimulating investment, gaining civic engagement and publicizing progress to assist the urban regeneration process more ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Emotion in Motion

    Tourism, Affect and Transformation

    Edited by Mike Robinson, David Picard ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment? What are the inner contours of tourist experience and how does it relate to specific emotional cultures? What are the consequences of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Events, Society and Sustainability

    Critical and Contemporary Approaches

    Edited by Tomas Pernecky, Michael Lück ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    The growth of the events industry brings with it concerns of sustainable management, the sharing of available resources, and ensuring that people and places are not over-exploited. While the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability have attracted a reasonable attention in the study of events, the social and cultural aspects of sustainability have been largely neglected. This book ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • New Directions in Rural Tourism

    Edited by Lesley Roberts, Derek Hall, Mitchell Morag ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Although there has been an increasing interest in rural tourism in terms of research, training and teaching in recent years, its conceptualization and the relationships between concept and strategy are still poorly represented and not well understood. The need for such a critical understanding is particularly crucial as rural areas experience rapid change, and as tourism is viewed as a key element ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Wine and Society

    by Steve Charters ...
    Wine is becoming increasingly popular in the Anglophone world and there are many books available which describe how and where it is made. However, none address the fundamental questions of different structures of production and how the consumer relates to the product – this book is the first to do just that. Wine and Society: the cultural and social context of wine production and consumption looks ... Read more

    $200.00 USD