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50 Things to Know about Being a Tourism Scholar

Author : 50 Things To Know

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Page : 106 pages

File Size : 47,25 MB

Release : 2021-01-20

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Have you considered a university major in tourism? Do you want a career where you can combine travel and passion and be an advocate for a better world? Are you looking at what you will gain from a tourism degree and what skills you will acquire to help you get that dream job? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you...50 Things to Know About Being a Tourism Scholar by Joanne Warren offers an insight into the courses from someone who has completed the degree and spent over a decade working around the industry, in a variety of sectors, in different countries.Most books on becoming a tourism scholar are a general guide to the available jobs in the tourism industry and most outline the generic job titles. Although there is nothing wrong with that, this book will explain the unexpected career opportunities and a few hot global issues, and how working in tourism can help you to advocate for a better world. This book will explain how to gain the necessary experience and skills to find the career you love and give you some inside knowledge to working in the field.In these pages you will discover what tourism majors learn, the skills acquired from the degree, and how to take advantage of these to gain the necessary experience to get you ahead in your career. You will get insights into working with a global team and first hand, real-life experiences with being a part of an industry that makes a difference. This book will help you identify what to expect from a major in tourism and how to combine this with a passion for travel to lead to a fulfilling career.By the time you finish this book, you will be realistic in meeting your future career expectations. You will better understand the pros and cons of completing a degree in tourism. You will have an insider view into the industry, how you can gain experience and how to get involved on a practical level. You will understand the future of tourism, with sustainability being at the forefront of every travel experience, and how you can be an advocate for a better world moving forward. Grab your copy today...you'll be glad you did.



Philosophical Issues in Tourism

Author : John Tribe

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 11,65 MB

Release : 2009-03-19

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1845412494

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Despite the geometric expansion of tourism knowledge, some areas have remained stubbornly underdeveloped and a full or comprehensive consideration of the philosophical issues of tourism represents one such significant knowledge gap. A key aim of this book therefore is to provide an initial mapping of, and fresh insights into this territory. In doing so it discusses key philosophical questions in the field such as What is tourism? Who is a tourist? What is wisdom? What is it to know something? What is the nature of reality? Why are some destinations considered beautiful? Why is tourism desirable? What is good and bad tourism? What are desirable ends? These and similar topics are addressed this book under the headings of truth, beauty and virtue.





Family Tourism

Author : Heike Schanzel

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 10,87 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 184541327X

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This cutting-edge international book brings together leading experts? latest research in the field of family tourism by adding to its underdeveloped knowledge base. Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives underlines the infancy of academic family tourism research that belies its market importance and directs towards future implications and theoretical debates about the place of families within tourism.



The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies

Author : Irena Ateljevic

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 429 pages

File Size : 21,14 MB

Release : 2007-03-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1136358609

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New approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable ‘critical turn’ – a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. The chapters in this volume reflect this emerging critical school of tourism studies and represent a coordinated effort of tourism scholars whose work engages innovative research methodologies. Since such work has been dispersed across a variety of tourism-related and other research fields, this book responds to a pressing need to consolidate recent advances in a single text. Adopting a broad definition of ‘criticality’, the contributors seek to find ‘fresh’ ways of theorising tourism by locating the phenomenon in its wider political, economic, cultural and social contexts. The collection addresses the power relations underpinning the production of academic knowledge; presents a range of qualitative data collection methods which confront the field’s dominant (post)positivist approaches; foregrounds the emotional dynamics of research relations and explores the personal, the political and the situated nature of research journeys. The book has been divided into two parts, with the essays in the first part establishing a context-specific framework for engaging philosophical and theoretical debates in contemporary tourism enquiry. The second set of essays then present, discuss and critique specific methodologies, research techniques, methods of interpretation and writing strategies, all of which are in some sense illustrative of ‘critical’ tourism research. Contributors range from postgraduate students to established academics and are drawn from both the geopolitical margins and the ‘powerbases’ of the tourism academy. Their various relationships with the English-speaking academy thus range from relative ‘outsider’ to well-positioned ‘insider’ and as a result, their essays are reflective of a range of locations within the complexly spun web of academic power relations and social divisions.



Folklore, People, and Places

Author : Jack Hunter

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 43,23 MB

Release : 2023-03-16

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1000847675

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Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts. The book showcases a range of international case studies from different cultural and ecological contexts showing how folklore can and does mediate human relationships with people and place. Folklore has traditionally been connected to place, telling tales of the land and the real and imaginary beings that inhabit storied places. These storytelling traditions and practices have endured in a contemporary world, yet the role and value of folklore to people and places has changed. The book explores a broad range of international perspectives and considers how the relationship between folklore, people, and place has evolved for tourists and indigenous communities. It will showcase a range of international case studies from different cultural and ecological contexts showing how folklore can and does mediate human relationships with people and place. By exploring folklore in the context of tourism, this book engages in a critical discussion of the opportunities and challenges of using storied places in destination development. The case studies in the book provide an international perspective on the contemporary value of folklore to people and places engendering reflection on the role of folklore in sustainable tourism strategies. This book will be of interest to students, academics, researchers in fields such as anthropology, folklore, tourism, religious studies, human geography and related disciplines. It will also be of interest to scholars and practitioners of traditional ecological knowledge.



Teaching Tourism

Author : Edelheim, Johan

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 21,10 MB

Release : 2022-02-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1800374569

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Tourism as an activity is increasingly being criticised for its exploitative and extractive industrial approaches to business. Yet, it has the power to transform and to regenerate societies, cultures and the environment. The desire to explore the world around us is deeply embedded in many people’s psyche, but it comes at a cost to the environment and often to the residents of the visited communities. Much of tourism education has been closely linked to preparing students for future professional practice, but the challenges and opportunities linked to its consumption require that its future leaders must exhibit very different values and understandings to tackle ever more complex and wicked problems from which tourism cannot dissociate itself. This compilation of values-based learning experiences can be adapted to suit the needs and disposition of individual instructors and aims not only to engage students in the subject matter but also deepen their understanding of its complexity and interconnectivity and help them become global citizens that lead lives of consequence.



A Research Agenda for the Social Impacts of Tourism

Author : Robin Nunkoo

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 40,77 MB

Release : 2024-04-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1789908302

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This timely Research Agenda explores the crucial need to understand the social impact of tourism in order to manage industry growth sustainably. Highlighting the multifaceted nature of tourism, chapters uncover the intricate relationships between tourists and host communities and investigate this complex social fabric.



Early Framers of Tourism Knowledge, Volume III

Author : Metin Kozak

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 18,83 MB

Release : 2023-06-27

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1000904504

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This book emphasises the work, the remarkable contributions, and the lifetime achievements of internationally respected scholars who have made lifelong contribution to advancing tourism studies and the dissemination of tourism–based knowledge and education across the world. Strengthening a field and its ability to form the own traditions is undoubtedly possible with a bridge to be established between the past, present and future. The capacity of research carried out today and in the future is built on the outputs of education and research completed in the past, adding new links to the chain. The history of tourism studies and education dates to the early years of the 20th century and began recording a momentum in its second half. There is, therefore, a lot more to do in terms of the institutionalization of such a young and dynamic field and this book aims to introduce tourism scholars with their widest geographical representation, dating from the first years of tourism research back in the early 1900s. Volume III of IV includes tributes to 20 scholars who have defined tourism as an object of academic study, established its foundations and organisations, and widened its scope to encompass thousands of empirical studies. Each of these volumes contains different profiles thereby bringing 80 of the pioneers in tourism more vividly to life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism & Hospitality Research.



William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century

Author : Joan Hawkins

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 457 pages

File Size : 48,46 MB

Release : 2019-05-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0253041368

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William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan. William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. Ultimately, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours.