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Advances in Tourism Economics
(2015-11-03)With the advent of rising mobility and leisure time together with a structural ten- dency for declining airfares, tourism has become a sector of major significance in modern economies. There is a wealth of literature on the ... -
Adventure Tourism
(2015-11-03)Adventure tour operations change continually, and certainly faster than any one author can keep checking them. Information in the case studies and elsewhere in this volume has been compiled from a variety of written and ... -
Advertising in Tourism and Leisure
(2015-11-03)Advertising bombards us every day – from commercials on television and radio, to advertising on buses and billboards, in magazines and on the Internet – and there is an increasing amount of advertising masquerading as ... -
Architecture and Tourism Perception, Performance and Place
(2015-11-04)The humanistic and social scientific study of tourism has an intriguing history. The largest peacetime movement of human beings in human history and a leisure time activity of the vast majority of academics, tourism, ... -
Atlas of Travel and Tourism Development
(2015-11-05)The geography of travel and tourism as it is taught today is destination-focused, with students able to avail themselves of excellent textbooks which examine the geography of demand and present a balanced view of des-tination ... -
Aviation and Tourism Implications for Leisure Travel
(2015-11-05)It may not be immediately obvious why three academics from different parts of the world (namely United Kingdom, Greece and Australia) would want to join forces in editing this book. The answer is very simple. We have ... -
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
(Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2018)
