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This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world, from labour conditions to development by stealth; to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. It...

If you're lucky enough to have lived near a mountain, you know its magnetic energy and how its profile becomes a familiar part of your daily back drop - one that transmits peace as you go about your busy day. There are peaks of disarming beauty in this...

The rapid increase in the demand for international tourism has led a growing number of people to seek holidays and travel experiences in both developed and developing countries. Yet little interest has been shown in the interface between tourism and...

Many former mining areas have now lost their industrial function and are now turning to tourism for regional revitalization and community economic development. The transformation process of these industrial, and in some cases derelict, mining sites and...

Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, sexual difference and subjectivity. Using a series of individual life stories, it develops a...

The "Community Tourism Guide" will lead you to a new type of holiday. Tribal people and rural villagers in Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America and the Pacific islands are setting up their own tours: tours from which they, and not...

Who among us has not looked out over a beautiful body of water and wondered what treasures are buried in the shore? Or found an unusual artifact floating and wondered where it originated? Whether you are a potential or a practicing beachcomber,...

For those of you who suffer road rage, lost luggage, gridlock, clamped cars, parking fines, agoraphobia, vertigo, frustration at being kept waiting at ports, airports, taxi ranks, Tube stations, bus stops, and so on, here is a chance to both relieve your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926855219Author Michale LangFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaPublisher Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 710g

A new series of pocket-sized travel guides aimed at first-time travellers featuring an extended introduction to the natural history of the destination. In three parts, the first section describes the major highlights. The second section looks at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894898461Author Mary GazetasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Rivers figure prominently in a nation's historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558381537Author Eric AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint American TravelerPublisher American TravelerWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398496941Author Jim NichollsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486164Author Tyrel Cameron EskelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Discover Geneva with the essential travel guide that is designed for you to create your own personalised trip and to introduce you to people who reflect the dynamic spirit of the city. Whether it be people in museums, restaurants, hotels, events or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736666418Author Mandy LittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Mandy LittonPublisher Mandy LittonWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Organised chronologically, starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved Cleveland institutions that have been consigned to history. Lost Cleveland is the latest in the series from Pavilion Books...

In his short life, Parker was one of the most influential musicians in jazz, and together with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, he was the main architect of the modern jazz revolution of the 1940s known as bebop. Addicted to drugs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580801393Author Claude Clayton SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Burford Books,U.S.Publisher Burford Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 448g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988055107Author Experience Everything Publishing (Tm)Format PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Experience Everything PublishingPublisher Experience Everything...

Develops a specific benchmarking methodology relevant to international tourism destinations. This book evaluates different approaches to benchmarking, and their application within tourism destinations. The book considers organization benchmarking -...

There is currently immense interest in measuring the sustainability of tourism in general, and of ecotourism in particular. Hitherto, it has been difficult for consumers to know whether claims of tourism destinations and products being "ecologically...

Recreation programming is a tool that allows for the enjoyment of rewarding leisure experiences. It describes the relationship between tour operators and tourists and how service providers can effectively plan and implement their ideas through...

Als Nachfolger zweier in ihrer Gestalt nicht uberlieferter Vorgangerbauten ist der zwischen ca. 1270 und 1440 entstandene und in seinen mittelalterlichen Teilen trotz der langen Bauzeit wie aus einem Guss wirkende Backsteinbau des Schweriner Doms ein...

Travel Journal Chisinau - Keep a diary of your holiday / vacation to Chisinau, Moldova. Includes diary, budget planner, activity planner, packing checklist and other useful aids to help you record and remember every aspect of your trip.Book...

Die romanische Basilika St. Eucharius-St. Matthias wurde 1160 vollendet, einen Sakralbau hatte es an ihrer Stelle in der alten Roemerstadt Rom aber wohl schon seit dem 3. Jahrhundert n.Chr. gegeben, denn in der Nahe der Kirche wurden spatantike Krypten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398413672Author John BrookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780899979144Author Matt HeidFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Wilderness PressPublisher Wilderness Press

Das 1787-1791 erbaute Marmorpalais, zunachst als Sommerschloss und Refugium von Friedrich Wilhelm II. nach seinem Regierungsantritt in Auftrag gegeben, diente mit seinen prachtigen Innenraumen in der Folge einigen furstlichen Familienmitgliedern als...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780484116466Author Washington IrvingFormat HardbackPage Count 670Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Die von einer vollstandig erhaltenen Umfassungsmauer aus dem 12. Jahrhundert umringte Klosteranlage Eberbach geht auf die Ansiedelung von Zisterziensermoenchen im Rheingau zuruck. Durch sie erlangte das Kloster seine Blute, das im Sinne der...

The concept of welfare is a somewhat neglected area within tourism studies, despite the continued growth of interest in key issues such as ethics, tourist safety, employee's well-being, human rights, ethnocentrism, cultural sensitivity and behaviour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781313985499Author Samuel ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

The catalogue to the permanent exhibition "The Imperial Palace in Munich" in the late Gothic vaulted hall in the Alter Hof in Munich is a vivid presentation of the history of the Alter Hof, the life of Ludwig the Bavarian and the history of...

This journal is the perfect traveling companion for anyone visiting Athens. Plan and record all details of your trip, includes lined and blank pages for writing your daily diary and holiday planning, with handy information tailored for travelers. Lists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528908528Author Fil BufaloFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800163911Author Norman HandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Within the tourism industry there is a growing consensus on the need for research to investigate the economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism. However, existing research methods texts are based solely on either the business approach or the...

The Midwest's place at the crossroads of the nation makes it a rich travel destination for anyone interested in the history and heritage of the United States. Cynthia Clampitt's guide to heartland historical sites invites readers to live the past,...