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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robertico croes”
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  • A Journey to Happiness

    Discovering Well-Being through Tourism

    by Robertico Croes Ph.D. ...
    What if tourism wasn’t just about travel—but a pathway to collective well-being?A Journey to Happiness: Discovering Well-Being through Tourism explores the powerful connection between tourism and the quality of life for both visitors and residents. What begins with a local initiative in Guayaquil, Ecuador unfolds into a global inquiry into how tourism affects happiness—economically, culturally, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Small Island and Small Destination Tourism

    Overcoming the Smallness Barrier for Economic Growth and Tourism Competitiveness

    by Robertico Croes ...
    Series series Advances in Hospitality and Tourism
    This unique and thoughtful book considers the tourism specialization, economic growth, and tourism competitiveness of a very specific type of tourism: small islands practicing warm water island tourism.This new book thoroughly examines the phenomenon of why some small island destinations have been more successful than others. The main premise applied is that success and survival of small island ... Read more

    $149.99 USD

  • Tourism Management in Warm-water Island Destinations

    by Michelle McLeod, Robertico Croes, David Airey, Dr Sheree-Ann Adams, Donna Chambers, Anne P. Crick, Frederic Dimanche, Rachel Dodds, Brigitte Joubert0, Jorge Ridderstaat1, Manuel Rivera2, Michael Sadowski3, Neelu Seetaram4, Kelly J. Semrad5, Professor Noel Scott6 ...
    Series series CABI Series in Tourism Management Research
    Warm-water islands are a cohesive group of islands distinguished by their geography and remoteness, history as former colonial territories, and dependence on external stakeholders for their economic and social development. Warm-water island destinations also have a year-round tourism industry. These island tourism destinations are facing unprecedented adjustment challenges in the wake of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sustainable Island Tourism

    Competitiveness and Quality of Life

    by Louise Twining-Ward, Robertico Croes, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Jack Carlsen, Professor Kelly Bricker, Allan S Allan S, Elisa Elisa, Maria Maria, Gyumin Gyumin, Deborah Kerstetter, Dr Anna Farmaki, Professor Levent Altinay, Dr Muhammet Yasarata, Meghan Beardsley, Dr Marketa Kubickova, Mariyam Zulfa ...
    Series series CABI Series in Tourism Management Research
    Tourism continues to grow, and as the industry develops, it is important for researchers and practitioners to fully understand and examine issues such as sustainability, competiveness, and stakeholder quality of life in tourism centres around the world. Focusing on the unique perspective of island tourism destinations, this book outlines impacts on, and potential strategies for protecting, the ... Read more

    $123.09 USD

  • Poverty Alleviation through Tourism Development

    A Comprehensive and Integrated Approach

    by Robertico Croes, Manuel Rivera ...
    Series series Advances in Hospitality and Tourism
    The book offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to the topic of tourism development and its contribution to the fight against poverty. Tourism development is credited to be a powerful source of regional development and improvement in developing countries, and the focus of the book is on the world's poorest areas and how tourism connects to ... Read more

    $155.00 USD

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    Disasters, Development and People

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  • Tourism and Poverty Reduction

    Pathways to Prosperity

    by Caroline Ashley, Jonathan Mitchell ...
    Series series Tourism, Environment and Development Series
    Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on partial and superficial analysis. Researchers from different disciplines and practitioners with different objectives generally work in splendid isolation from each other and from the mainstream of development ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Flourishing

    A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

    by John R. Ehrenfeld, Andrew J. Hoffman ...
    Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other books about sustainability, this one goes beyond the typical stories that we tell ourselves about repairing the environmental damages of ... Read more

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  • The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

    by Robert H. Frank ...
    Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's ... Read more

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  • The Welfare State Revisited

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    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
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    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce C. Greenwald ...
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    "A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D."—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American DemocracySince its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It ... Read more

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