Author : Chelle Koster-Walton
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1581579373
In this updated guide you’ll find the definitive word on this Gulf Coast area, its recreation, restaurants, hotels, and more, from deluxe to offbeat. Enjoy an insider’s vantage point on Charlotte Harbor’s wild shores, the coast’s sandy barrier islands, Naples’s polished allure, and Sarasota-Bradenton’s “sweet” history.
Author : Zheng Xiang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319039733
The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, website development and evaluation, search engine marketing and optimization, IT adoption and diffusion, virtual travel communities, mobile technologies, management information systems in tourism, eLearning, recommender systems for tourism businesses and destinations and electronic distribution for hospitality and travel products. This book covers the most significant topics contributed by prominent scholars from around the world and is suitable for both academics and practitioners who are interested in the latest developments in e-Tourism.
Author : Patrick Law
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0982336977
Commander Shon Ó Conaill left to find habitable planets on Canopus, one of two black-hole lightships to launch in the twenty-sixth century. Finding none, he ordered Gristelda, the ship's computer, "to accelerate us until the Canopus has achieved the maximum she will do." Gristelda complied and he found himself returning to Earth, now called Vitas, 800,000 years in the future. Humankind is now governed by the Society of Life, charged with maintaining the Order, in world inhabited by twenty million humans and the Society. Separated from a primordial world by a Wall, after propounding a Slippery Slope Proposition, Shon is forced to cross over. But he is part of a greater plan set in motion by the Great One. What he does next will profoundly change the future of humankind, the Society, and all the intelligent habitants of the galaxy.
Author : Damianos P. Sakas
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1848165099
This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference of Marketing and Management Sciences held from 23 to 25 May 2008 in Athens, Greece. The papers focus on how globalization has had significant impact on companies, societies and individuals alike. They discuss the need for new strategies and practices that can help cope with changes that arise due to globalization. Written in a simple manner, this book will be of interest to academics studying and teaching marketing and management courses and to managers dealing with strategies to cope with changes due to globalization.
Author : Akhmad Saufi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811017182
This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015. The book presents comprehensive discussions on sustainability in the tourism industry. It includes research on various constituents of the tourism sector and analyses of each of them from a sustainability standpoint. Case studies that are global in nature are presented to show how sustainable applications can be used and how concerns can be addressed. The book is a response to rapid change in contemporary tourism trends brought about by global economic and social forces such as development pressures, population growth, major resource extraction, industrial fishing, global climate change and steadily rising sea levels. Balancing Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations serves as a platform for students and educators, government agency employees, hospitality and tourism industry practitioners, public and private land managers, community development workers, and others interested in identifying practical solutions, charting new directions, and creating opportunities for sustainable tourism development.
Author : Peter Hutchings
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1538102447
Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from subtle and poetic to graphic and gory, but what links them together is their ability to frighten, disturb, shock, provoke, delight, irritate, and amuse audiences. Horror’s capacity to take the form of our evolving fears and anxieties has ensured not only its notoriety but also its long-term survival and international popularity. This second edition has been comprehensively updated to capture all that is important and exciting about the horror genre as it exists today. Its new entries feature the creative personalities who have developed innovative forms of horror, and recent major films and cycles of films that ensure horror’s continuing popularity and significance. In addition, many of the other entries have been expanded to include reference to the contemporary scene, giving a clear picture of how horror cinema is constantly renewing and transforming itself. The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema traces the development of the genre from its beginnings to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries. The entries cover all major movie villains, including Frankenstein and his monsters, the vampire, the werewolf, the mummy, the zombie, the ghost and the serial killer; film directors, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, make-up artists, special-effects technicians, and composers who have helped shape horror history; significant production companies; major films that are milestones in the development of the horror genre; and different national traditions in horror cinema – as well as popular themes, formats, conventions, and cycles.
Author : Alastair M. Morrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000876160
Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations is a comprehensive and integrated introductory textbook covering destination management and marketing in one volume. It focuses on how destination management is planned, implemented, and evaluated as well as the management and operations of destination management organizations (DMOs), how they conduct business, major opportunities, and challenges and issues they face to compete for the global leisure and business travel markets. Much has changed since the publication of the second edition of this book in 2018. The COVID-19 pandemic was unpredictable at the time and has caused havoc for destinations and DMOs. The third edition includes many materials about the COVID-19 impacts and recovery from the pandemic. This third edition has been updated to include: four new chapters (Chapter 2—“Destination Sustainability and Social Responsibility”; Chapter 3—“Quality of Life and Well-Being of Destination Residents”; Chapter 11—“Destination Crisis Management”; and Chapter 20—“Destination Management Performance Measurement and Management”) new and updated international case examples to show the practical realities and approaches to managing different destinations around the world coverage of contemporary topics including, for example, COVID-19, social responsibility, metaverse, mixed reality, virtual meetings, teleworking, digital nomads, viral marketing, blended travel, regenerative tourism, meaningful travel, and several others a significantly improved illustration program keyword lists It is illustrated in full color and packed with features to encourage reflection on main themes, spur critical thinking, and show theory in practice. Written by an author with many years of industry practice, university teaching, and professional training experience, this book is the essential guide to the subject for tourism, hospitality, and events students and industry practitioners alike.
Author : Ed Ross
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470378913
Learn how to identify the bottom of your local real estate market and understand when to buy by using the tools and tips in Forecasting for Real Estate Wealth: Strategies for Outperforming Any Housing Market. Take advantage of the great deals created by falling real estate prices and discover the four questions every real estate investor must ask before buying, selling, or holding any property. With this guide, you can forecast the value of any property in 1 or 5 years, predict which investment property will give you maximum return, and secure low-cost financing.
Author : Andreu Domingo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319123610
This book provides a unique, timely and comprehensive insight into Latin American immigrants in Spain. Each chapter uses a demographic framework to examining important topics related to the experiences of Latin American immigrants in Spain, like their rapid acquisition of nationality, their contrasting patterns of migration and settlement compared to other immigrant groups, their labour market experiences before and during the economic recession, their reproductive behaviour before and after settling in Spain, as well as the push and pull factors of what is regarded as one of the single biggest waves of international migration ever experienced by Spain. Beyond the investigation of such pertinent topics, this book addresses issues relating to the adequacy of demographic theory in explaining the presence of Latin American immigrants in Spain, particularly the trailblazing presence of women among the immigrants. Spain unquestionably constitutes a good example of the fact that the future of demographic growth in post-transitional countries is mainly and irreversibly marked by the evolution of migratory movements, while the latter factor is closely linked with the economic state of affairs. In the short term at least, the causal relations go from economy to demography. In the long term, if economic growth is linked with demographic growth as some economists hypothesise, this would also be fundamental, not only in the sense of growth itself but also with regard to how this might be distributed.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1596918128
A guide to living life to the fullest offers suggestions on seizing the day through adventures and challenges, from flying a plane to swimming with sharks to milking a cow, all of them entertaining to read and exciting to experience. Original. 50,000 first printing.
