Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Special Interest - Business

The challenges of living in a foreign country don't begin and end with culture shock. If you're planning a move abroad, you need to prepare yourself for the unique pressures, anxieties and personal and family problems common to all expatriates, which are often difficult to anticipate and a challenge to overcome, including:

• Culture shock: what is it really?
• Long-distance relationships with friends and family
• Affairs and other marriage-stressors
• Raising third culture kids
• Being single overseas
• Business travel...

If you read this book cover to cover before your next business trip, you will be set up for success before you even step onto the plane. The Business Travel Handbook is packed with more than twenty-five years of practical experience from an international business expert who's worked in sixteen countries and surpassed his millionth mile traveling.

Written for novices and experienced business travelers alike, the guide is organized in a straightforward manner so that veteran travelers can easily find the areas that can help them quickly. Meanwhile, for novice travelers, the...

Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts. Cultural Heritage Tourism has positive economic and social impacts but can also have negative impacts on communities and regions. This book draws together and links ideas of tourism from sustainable marketing perspectives and embeds it within a heritage management setting. Through a discussion and analysis of existing literature and practices this book aims to propose a marketing strategy framework grounded in sustainable principles that can be...

Working abroad offers adventure, friendship with people of other cultures, intimate familiarity with exciting places, and opportunities to make real differences in communities. It also presents countless challenges, ranging from packing and staying safe and healthy to balancing project objectives with on-the-ground realities, working with local officials, and forging respectful and productive relationships. These challenges and many more are tackled in How to Work in Someone Else's Country. Drawing on thirty years of experience as an international consultant in Africa, Asia, Latin...