In recent years tourism has expanded rapidly into a global phenomenon. It is now a major service industry of great economic importance having a significant impact on a wide range of issues such as the environment, leisure and transportation. This text is a reference source comprising over 1000 entries and written by an international team of more than 300 contributors. It provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of basic definitions, concepts, perspectives and institutions embraced by tourism and consolidates research carried out in the field to the end of the 1990s. The entries...
In recent years tourism has expanded rapidly into a global phenomenon. It is now a major service industry of great economic importance having a signif...
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 challenging multisectoral industry and multi disciplinary field of study.
Comprising over one thousand entries, this volume has been written by an international team of contributors to provide a comprehensive guide to both the manifest and hidden dimensions of tourism. It...
In fewer than three hundred years tourism has become a global service industry of great economic, cultural and political importance. Published to c...
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 emergent opportunities introduced by technology will lose considerable market share and suffer strategic disadvantages. Business processes re-engineering is essential therefore throughout the tourism industry. Encouragingly tourism organisations respond to the challenges and a large number of principals...
Information and Telecommunication Technologies increasingly propel the tourism industry and have become one of the most important determinants of the ...
There have been a number of sporadic and disconnected initiatives to improve knowledge transfer between the tourism academia, government and industry. This volume presents and analyses 17 examples of knowledge transfer from countries around the world to identify future directions for business and government managers and academic researchers. Many of the chapters were presented at the first t-Forum global conference. The chapters emphasise the value from academic leadership in developing cohesion and links amongst small business and government, and the importance of a shared innovative vision...
There have been a number of sporadic and disconnected initiatives to improve knowledge transfer between the tourism academia, government and industry....
