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Title Encyclopedia of tourism / chief editor, Jafar Jafari
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

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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
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Wörterbuch. gnd
Subject Tourism -- Encyclopedias
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
Tourism
Tourismus
Wörterbuch
Toerisme.
Tourisme -- Encyclopédies.
Genre/Form Electronic books
encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedieën (vorm)
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Jafari, Jafar
ISBN 0203195671
9780203195673
0415154057
9780415154055
0415308909
9780415308908