This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope.More than700 contributions of 766 internationally renowned experts from 113 countries provi...
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1700
Springer
3319013831
9783319013831
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In fewer than three hundred years tourism has become a global service industry of great economic, cultural and political importance. Published to critical acclaim, the Encyclopedia of Tourism - now available as a Routledge World Reference title - is the definitive one-volume reference source to this...
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Routledge
0415308909
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Hardbound. In western society it is taken for granted that tourism is a necessary element of contemporary lifestyle, but while many people recognize its importance, they are usually more concerned with its contribution to the economy than with its social, cultural, and political significance. As a s...
Ning Wang, Yeakley, Jafar Jafari
Hardcover
268
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
0080434460
9780080434469
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Hardbound. The interrelationship of religion and tourism has barely been touched upon in scholarly research. This book aims to present and analyze this relationship from sociological, economic and anthropological perspectives.The religious tourist and categories of religiously motivated tourism are ...
Boris Vukonic, Vukonic Boris Vukonic, Jafar Jafari
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200
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
0080425615
9780080425610
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Information and Telecommunication Technologies increasingly propel the tourism industry and have become one of the most important determinants of the competitiveness for both the public and the private sectors. It is quite evident that tourism organisations which fail to take advantage of the emerge...
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344
Springer
321183088X
9783211830888
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Sixty years after its birth, contemporary tourism is at crossroads. It has grown to become a key element of economic well-being, but it is threatened and threatening. Its enemies are congestion, destruction of natural and cultural environments, and social unrest. However, it also contributes its fai...
Eduardo Fayos-Sola
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350
Emerald Group Publishing
1780529805
9781780529806
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Hardbound. The book opens with an account of recent developments in the economic, political and cultural sociology of international tourism and goes on to analyse the relationships between international tourism and the broad economic determinants of the world system. The book aims to understand leis...
Jozsef Borocz, Borocz Jozsef Borocz, Jafar Jafari
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230
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
0080425607
9780080425603
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This volume brings together Cohen's principle articles on the sociology of tourism, published over the last three decades. Part one Collects his major theoretical papers, starting with the pioneering articles of the 1970's, which contributed to the opening of the field of tourism for social science ...
Erik Cohen, Jafar Jafari
Hardcover
398
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
0080442447
9781840645101
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Jafar Jafari
3211829636