New Frontiers in Marine Tourism is the first book of this kind to address and analyse this burgeoning tourism sector comprehensively. By integrating aspects such as the sustainability, safety, education, experiences and management of diving tourism the text highlights a variety of pressing topics related to the management of diving tourism, including: * different types of diving locations and their particular characteristics and the geographical distribution of dive locations* the growth and economic significance of diving tourism in destinations worldwide * different motivations and...
New Frontiers in Marine Tourism is the first book of this kind to address and analyse this burgeoning tourism sector comprehensively. By integrating a...
Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response. The result is the concept of ???travel medicine??? as a separate discipline. This book describes the evolution of travel medicine, travel vaccines, malaria prophylaxis and infections of adventure and leisure.
This book is unique and different to the standard textbooks on travel medicine. It provides rare insights...
Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffe...
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these stories told? And for what purposes are the stories told? The acts and modes of interpretation are many, ranging from a discourse conducted through silences to the more complex nuanced story telling told through re-enactments of past battles. The book also asks where is the battle-field? - as case...
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites...
This volume addresses issues concerning the potential of festivals and events to produce economic, social, cultural and community benefits. Incorporating a range of perspectives, it provides the reader with a global look at current trends and topics, which have until now, been underrepresented by current literature.
This volume addresses issues concerning the potential of festivals and events to produce economic, social, cultural and community benefits. Incorporat...
