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Backpacker Tourism Concepts and Profiles
(2015-11-05)This is the second volume of the ongoing research programme on backpacking developed by the Backpacker Research Group (BRG) of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS). The BRG aims to act as a platform ... -
THE BASICS OF ECONOMICS
(2015-11-05)Since the dawn of civilization, people have groped for answers to the basic economic questions of what, how, and for whom to produce. How people chose to answer these universal questions shaped the course of history, ... -
Beach Management Principles & Practice
(2015-11-05)T his book on beach management was wri�en in order to provide a counterbalance to the many excellent books associated with beach management that emphasize coastal engineering and the variety of techniques associated ... -
Bleisure typologies
(2022-07)The origin of tourism dates back to the end of the 18th century when the western tradition organized travels to support infrastructure and sight-seeing in the cities of ancient Greece and Rome. In the 21st century modern ... -
British Tourism: The remarkable story of growth
(2015-11-05)Demand for domestic and international travel has been increasing rapidly among the British population over the last half-century. From the summer season attractions ofseaside resorts in the 1950s to modern gap year ... -
BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING
(2015-11-05)Firms are major economic institutions in market economies. They come in all shapes and sizes, but have the following common characteristics: g Owners. g Managers. g Objectives. g Apoolofresources(labour,physicalcapi ... -
Business Travel and Tourism
(2015-11-05)The book has been structured in, what we hope the reader will agree, is a logical manner. In Part One, the authors define business travel and tourism and talk a little about its historical development. They identify the ... -
Career Development and Employee Value Proposition People Management Future
(2022-09-09)Career development has gained a lot of interest over time as organizations and employees attempt to match individual goals with organizational goals to maximize performance. Value proposition, in human resource management ... -
Children with Disabilities in Kenyan Media: Lessons from the Abled Differently Programme
(University of Michigan Press, 2022)The chapter explores how the national broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Television (KBC TV), through its premier programme, Abled Differently, represents children with disabilities. Using media representation ... -
Climate Change and Immovable Cultural Heritage in Kenya: Impact and Response Strategies
(Springer, Cham., 2021)Immovable cultural heritages represent past human life that links the past, present, and future landscapes. Protection and preservation of authenticity and integrity of these built heritages is a major challenge in the ... -
Climate variability, land use and livelihoods in the Rangelands
(2014)This book explores the interrelationships between climate variability, land-use and livelihoods in the rangelands, taking Makueni and Kajiado Counties of southern Kenya as a case. Makueni County is predominantly inhabited ... -
A Companion to Tourism
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Compensation
(2022-07)Relating to human resource function, compensation (often referred to as pay, wage, salary) is the monetary and non-monetary reward offered to an employee in exchange of their contribution to labour. The contributions can ... -
Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures
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Dryland Husbandry for Sustainable Development in the Southern Rangelands of Kenya
(2004)The Dryland Husbandry Project (DHP) came into being under an arrangement conceived by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD), which changed later to Inter-Governmental Authority on Development ... -
E-Business Adoption Framework in the Hospitality Industry: The Case of Kenyan Coast
(2015)While the hospitality industry in the Kenyan Coast has adopted Information and Communication Technology (ICT), application of the same is limited to internal operations and control. The industry’s e-business adoption lags ... -
Ecological, Socio-economic and Livelihood Differentiation of Kenya's Lembus Forest Proximate Communities: The Case of the Tugen and Lembus
(2010)The Tugen and Lembus are indigenous communities found adjacent to the Lembus igenous forests. Other than these two communities, there are several others inhabiting this area the surrounding districts. The Lembus igenous ... -
The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Tanzania
(2002)The main objective of this study was to quantify the economic contribution of copyright-based industries in Tanzania by estimating their value-added contribution to GDP, share of national employment, and revenue generated ... -
Electronic Procurement Practices on Supply Chain Performance: Sugar Processing Firms, Focus Study
(White Falcon Publishing, 2020-08-27)In Kenya, manual systems have been a source of major inefficiencies in the regulation and operations of the procurement function. Therefore there is need to adopt ICT in order to ensure proper functioning of the procurement ... -
Enhancing Vocabulary Learning in Kenya's ESL Classrooms
(Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2013-01)This book explores theories and pedagogies in the L2 classroom that have led to an understanding of how non-native languages are taught and learned. Featuring a diverse set of perspectives from researchers and language ...