Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 683 pages) |
Contents |
1 General Issues and Concepts Specific to Tourism: Accommodation, Consumerism, Gambling, Globalization, Policy, Seasonality -- 2 Definition of Key Terms and Acronyms: Ecoresort, Professional Native, Room Nights -- 3 Significant Institutions, Associations and Journals: Caribbean Tourism Organization, Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques, WTO, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Tourism Studies -- 4 Country Specific Tourism Profiles: Greece, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, South Africa -- 5 Trends and Patterns of Tourism Development and Growth: Community Development, Demography, Ecologically Sustainable Tourism, Forecasting, Zoning -- 6 Tourism as an Industry with Many Businesses: Adventure Tourism, Business Travel, Convention Bureaux, Hospitality, Marketing, Public Relations |
Summary |
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 explores |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Wörterbuch. gnd |
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Tourism -- Encyclopedias
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Tourism
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Tourismus
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Wörterbuch
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Toerisme.
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Tourisme -- Encyclopédies.
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Electronic books
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encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedieën (vorm)
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopédies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Jafari, Jafar
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ISBN |
0203195671 |
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9780203195673 |
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0415154057 |
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9780415154055 |
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0415308909 |
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9780415308908 |
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