ilość książek w kategorii: 5459
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Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?
ISBN: 9783837622553 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authors explore how social relations, intimacy and trust are built in the online environment and then extended into the offline contexts of actual tourism and travel. Being active couchsurfers themselves, the authors scrutinise the candid claim by much of the online hospitality community that couchsurfing creates a better world. The book is...
The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and trave...
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148,54 |
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Principles of Horticulture: Level 3
ISBN: 9780415859097 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This colourful guide will explain the fundamentals of growing plants, whether you are taking a Level 3 RHS, City and Guilds or Edexcel course, are a grower or gardener in the industry, or are just a keen amateur. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book covers the principles that underpin plant production, the use of growing media and crop protection, but with reference also to the same practices in the garden or allotment. With highlighted definitions, key points, and illustrated in full colour, this book will be a useful companion as you progress in the study and practice of... This colourful guide will explain the fundamentals of growing plants, whether you are taking a Level 3 RHS, City and Guilds or Edexcel course, are ... |
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243,34 |
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Food Lovers' Guide To(r) Pittsburgh: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings
ISBN: 9781493006441 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food Lover's Guide to Pittsburgh is the ultimate guide to the city's food scene and provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local foodies, this guide is a one-stop resource for residents and visitors alike to find producers and pureyors of tasty local specialities, as well as a rich array of other, indispensible food-related information including: One-of-a-kind restaurants and landmark eateries Speciality food shops The city's best bakeries Local drink scene Food festivals and culinary events Recipes from top...
Food Lover's Guide to Pittsburgh is the ultimate guide to the city's food scene and provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and c...
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91,04 |
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Culture and the City: Creativity, Tourism, Leisure
ISBN: 9781138798373 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined, experienced and shaped by those who reside within them, those who manage or govern them, and those who, as visitor, tourist or traveller, pass through them. Attention will be paid to the influence that these various inhabitants have on city life and living and the dialectic that exists between their sometimes collective and sometimes divergent, perceptions and uses of city space. In conjunction with this, the collection will explore the ways in which local culture and cultural policy are used by public and private...
This edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined, experienced and shaped by those who reside within them, those who manage or ...
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267,68 |
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Ethnic Tourism Planning. Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall
ISBN: 9780754673842 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social benefits it can also significantly impact traditional cultures, ways of life and the sense of identity of ethnic groups. There is growing concern in many places about how to balance the use of ethnicity as a tourist attraction with the protection of minority cultures and the promotion of ethnic pride. Despite the fact that a substantial...
Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preserva...
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778,85 |
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Reproductive Tourism in the United States: Creating Family in the Mother Country
ISBN: 9781138809840 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the United States as a destination for international consumers of assisted fertility services, including egg donation, surrogacy, and sex selection. Based on interviews conducted with fertility industry insiders who market their services to an international clientele in three of the largest American hubs of the global fertility marketplace - New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco - and focusing on the providers rather than the consumers of assisted fertility services, the book shines a light on how professional ethics and norms, in addition to personal moralities,... This book examines the United States as a destination for international consumers of assisted fertility services, including egg donation, surrogacy... |
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778,85 |
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Becoming an Expat: Costa Rica
ISBN: 9781938216053 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Becoming an Expat Costa Rica is much more than a guidebook to move, live, work, and retiring in paradise. It will teach you how to save money on international banking fees, flights, the logistics involved with an international move, and the pros and cons to a live in Pura Vida. You'll even learn how to move with children & pets, about the school systems, and step by step instructions for each process required to reset your life in the Costa Rica's paradise
Becoming an Expat Costa Rica is much more than a guidebook to move, live, work, and retiring in paradise. It will teach you how to save money on inter...
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71,80 |
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Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice
ISBN: 9781138217515 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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705,83 |
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Just One More Hand: Life in the Casino Economy
ISBN: 9781442236677 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just One More Hand tells a story that workers all over can relate to: an industry that promised a solid and stable livelihood is being transformed by competitive pressures, causing employees to lose their economic footing. What seemed like a good job one day becomes a bad job the next. Incorporating the real experiences of casino employees, the book demonstrates the difficulties for local communities that are building new casinos in the hopes of luring tourists. Local communities placing all their chips on casinos as an economic development strategy face increasingly long odds. Life stories...
Just One More Hand tells a story that workers all over can relate to: an industry that promised a solid and stable livelihood is being transformed by ...
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214,18 |
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New Research Paradigms in Tourism Geography
ISBN: 9781138840508 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of papers from "Tourism Geographies" emphasizes new and emerging research paradigms in the geographic study of tourism. The papers included in this collection follow one of two threads: explicitly supporting specific research frameworks, or implicitly presenting new and emerging theoretical perspectives through empirical research on the geographical topics. These begin with three overview papers from themes that emerged from recent annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, including evolutionary economic geography (EEG), political ecology and community... This collection of papers from "Tourism Geographies" emphasizes new and emerging research paradigms in the geographic study of tourism. The papers ... |
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705,83 |
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Start Your Own Event Planning Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
ISBN: 9781599185620 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. START YOUR OWN EVENT PLANNING BUSINESS AND CELEBRATE ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK Weddings, graduations, birthday parties, anniversaries, and conferences--what do these all have in common? Everyone would rather hire someone else to plan and run them That someone can be you. Take your passion for event planning to the next level with in-the-trenches advice and tools you need to start, run, and grow a successful business. From writing a solid contract to finding reliable vendors, our experts help you identify your niche, teach you how to scout potential clients, evaluate the competition,...
START YOUR OWN EVENT PLANNING BUSINESS AND CELEBRATE ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK Weddings, graduations, birthday parties, anniversaries, and conferen...
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83,58 |
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Meat Man: An Insider's History of Toronto's Greatest Restaurants
ISBN: 9781771611275 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meat Man: An Insider's History of Toronto's Greatest Restaurants is a one-of-a-kind look at Toronto's legendary restaurants, steakhouses and hotels from one of the city's premier meat suppliers. Chronicling the culinary history of the city's top eateries from 1950 to 2000, Meat Man includes thoughtful and entertaining memories, anecdotes and reminiscences that are both insightful and entirely unique. Including chapters on the city's best delis, steakhouses, high-end pubs and early Chinatown, Meat Man also contains detailed sections on the "Jewels" and "Gems" of over four decades of dining out...
Meat Man: An Insider's History of Toronto's Greatest Restaurants is a one-of-a-kind look at Toronto's legendary restaurants, steakhouses and hotels fr...
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94,92 |
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Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Dynamic Perspective
ISBN: 9789401795289 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an overview of different institutional arrangements for tourism, biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa. These approaches range from conservancies in Namibia, community-based organizations in Botswana, conservation enterprises in Kenya, private game reserves in South Africa, to sport hunting in Uganda and transfrontier conservation areas. The book presents a comparative analysis of these arrangements and highlights that most arrangements emerged in the 1990s through either a decentralized or centralized change trajectory that...
This book presents an overview of different institutional arrangements for tourism, biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in eastern a...
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402,53 |
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Impact Assessment in Tourism Economics
ISBN: 9783319149196 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a series of studies on the socio-economic impacts of tourism, with a special focus on the determinants of tourism competitiveness at the destination level. The authors offer a systematic overview of this important issue, presenting relevant empirical studies from different parts of the world, based on modern theoretical approaches and adequate analysis tools, in the context of their policy or managerial implications.
The first part of the book discusses the analysis and assessment of quantitative tourism impacts on local economies, while the second part focuses on... This book presents a series of studies on the socio-economic impacts of tourism, with a special focus on the determinants of tourism competitiveness a...
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563,56 |
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Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea: Embodied Narratives and Fluid Geographies
ISBN: 9781472424334 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earth's surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected or perceived as marginal in modern consciousness. This edited collection disrupts notions of the sea as 'other', as foreign and featureless, through specific, situated accounts which highlight the centrality of the sea for the individuals concerned. Bringing together academics who combine scholarly expertise with lived experiences on, in and with the sea, it examines humans' relationships with the sea. Through the use of auto-ethnographic...
Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earth's surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected o...
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705,83 |
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Global Tourism and Informal Labour Relations: The Small Scale Syndrome at Work
ISBN: 9781138880641 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The worldwide expansion of the tourism industry creates many encounters between global agents and local forces, yet the host-guest interaction is rarely considered from the point of view of the experience of work. This study documents and discusses such a global-local encounter, based on fieldwork carried out in hotels in Barbados and Malta. Insight is drawn from a review of such issues as recruitment, promotion, redundancy, discipline, security, communication, expertise, total quality management iniatives, trade unionism and industrial action.
The worldwide expansion of the tourism industry creates many encounters between global agents and local forces, yet the host-guest interaction is rare...
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170,32 |
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Hamilton Island. The Innovative Cultural Enterprise
ISBN: 9783656884095 / Angielski / Miękka / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1.1, Central Queensland University, course: Cultural Entrepreneurship, language: English, abstract: Globalisation has meant that the offerings of many destinations are increasingly homogenous. Branding provides a way of creating a unique identity through relationship building and emotional appeal, rather than differentiation on the basis of functional qualities. While destination branding draws on principals from product marketing there are some important differences. This is a more obvious requirement in some...
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1.1, Central Queensland University, course: Cultural Entrepreneurship,...
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139,28 |
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User Innovators in the Silver Market: An Empirical Study Among Camping Tourists
ISBN: 9783658090432 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study among camping tourists of all age groups between 19 and 86 years of age, Konstantin Wellner compares key characteristics regarding innovative behavior of different age groups. The focus of the analysis is on the so-called "Silver Market" segment (consumers of at least 55 years) which gains importance to the demographic shift. Generally, older users are still actively innovating, especially if it relates to age-specific improvements (e.g., comfort and compatibility to other equipment). Analysis by a Structural Equation Model showed that the most important determinant of...
In this study among camping tourists of all age groups between 19 and 86 years of age, Konstantin Wellner compares key characteristics regarding innov...
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201,24 |
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Archipelago Tourism: Policies and Practices
ISBN: 9781472424303 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the conceptual insights provided by the archipelagic 'twist' in the context of tourism principles, policies and practices, this volume draws on an international series of case studies to analyse best practice in branding, marketing and logistics in archipelago tourist destinations. The book asks and seeks to answer such questions as: How to 'sell' a multi-island destination, without risking a message that may be too complex and diffuse for audiences to grab on to? Does one encourage visitors to do 'island hopping'; and, if so, how and with what logistic facilities? How does one...
Exploring the conceptual insights provided by the archipelagic 'twist' in the context of tourism principles, policies and practices, this volume draws...
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705,83 |
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The Principles of Geotourism
ISBN: 9783662466964 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves studying the geo-scientific characteristics of these tourism resources through surveys, evaluation and aesthetic value assessment. It also discusses about the principles behind geopark establishment and management. It is an important publication providing direction for geopark and tourism developments in China. The book is a tool for geological heritage survey, assessment and research. It can also be used to...
The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human...
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201,24 |