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  • Everyday Practices of Tourism Mobilities Everyday Practices of Tourism Mobilities
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    Everyday Practices of Tourism Mobilities

    The practice of packing a bag is a situation where subtle, daily processes can attune us to the relationships and experiences formed in mobile situations. There has been great attention to mundane and material practices in tourism, yet the process of...
    $149.00

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  • Events and Festivals Events and Festivals
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    Events and Festivals

    Events and Festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles. We recognise them as part of our lives. For some, of they are a very significant part of our lives. The network of festivals and events that either adorn the world now, or...
    $118.00

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  • Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal
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    Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal

    Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essentially historical and artistic point of view. Studies on the practicalities of managing the dead and their spaces are even more recent,...
    $137.00

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  • California Walnut Industry (1896) California Walnut Industry (1896)
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    California Walnut Industry (1896)

    The California Walnut Industry, published in 1896, is a historical account of the walnut industry in California during the late 19th century. The book is authored by B.M. Lelong, who was a prominent figure in the California walnut industry at the time...
    $63.00

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  • Prosperity And How It Must Come Prosperity And How It Must Come
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    Prosperity And How It Must Come

    Prosperity And How It Must Come: Economic Facts For Workers And Preachers is a book written by Roger Ward Babson in 1914. The book deals with the subject of prosperity and how it can be achieved through economic facts. The author argues that prosperity...
    $69.00

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  • Sustainability and the Fashion Industry Sustainability and the Fashion Industry
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    Sustainability and the Fashion Industry

    There is widespread rhetorical agreement that the fashion industry must get itself onto a more ethical and sustainable footing. What does this mean in practice, and how can this be achieved in different regions around the world?
    $347.00

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  • Econometric Modelling and Forecasting of Tourism Demand Econometric Modelling and Forecasting of Tourism Demand
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    Econometric Modelling and Forecasting of Tourism Demand

    This insightful and timely volume provides a succinct, expert-led introduction to the latest developments in advanced econometric methodologies in the context of tourism demand modelling and forecasting.Written by a plethora of worldwide experts on this...
    $100.00

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  • Arts and Cultural Leadership Arts and Cultural Leadership
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    Arts and Cultural Leadership

    This textbook provides an expert overview of the challenge of arts and cultural leadership in the contemporary world. Grounded in theories of sustainability and with a renewed global focus for this second edition, the author's insights from contemporary...
    $128.00

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    NEVER DROP THE BALL AGAIN

    If your growth depends on attracting and retaining the right kind of people, this little book is for you. The Ideal Client Experience will literally save your business. It will create stable customer growth. It will increase retention of clients and team...
    $40.00

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  • Dictionary for Air Travel and Tourism Activities Dictionary for Air Travel and Tourism Activities
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    Dictionary for Air Travel and Tourism Activities

    Travel and Tourism are wide and multifaceted systems whose complexity is reflected in the terminology employed to describe them or to operate them. Their communication language appears at times secretive; but there is no secrecy, in fact. Travel...
    $62.00

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  • Knowledge Networks and Tourism Knowledge Networks and Tourism
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    Knowledge Networks and Tourism

    The receipt of knowledge is a key ingredient by which the tourism sector can adjust and adapt to its dynamic environment. However although its importance has long been recognised  the fragmentation within the sector, largely as a result of it being...
    $385.00

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  • Routledge Handbook of Ecotourism Routledge Handbook of Ecotourism
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    Routledge Handbook of Ecotourism

    This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging, and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism. The chapters will both advance the existing central themes of ecotourism and provide challenging and divergent observations that will thrust...
    $552.00

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  • Slow Tourism, Food and Cities Slow Tourism, Food and Cities
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    Slow Tourism, Food and Cities

    Slow Food began in the late 1980s as a response to the spread of fast food establishments and as a larger statement against globalization and the perceived deterioration of modern life. Since then, slow practices have permeated into other areas,...
    $121.00

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  • Sustainable Textile Chemical Processing Sustainable Textile Chemical Processing
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    Sustainable Textile Chemical Processing

    This book covers different aspects of efforts being put in making the textile chemical processing sustainable. Sustainability in this context makes us think proactively and introspect our business-as-usual practices for higher productivity, lower costs...
    $436.00

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  • Service Management and Marketing Principles Service Management and Marketing Principles
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    Service Management and Marketing Principles

    This book explores the service economy and challenges that all organizations face as goods and services make way for a world where customers (B2C) and businesses (B2B) seek seamless, thoughtful and exceptional experiences.
    $373.00

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  • A Sustainable Tourism Workforce A Sustainable Tourism Workforce
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    A Sustainable Tourism Workforce

    This book brings together issues of social justice and the neglect of a sustainable orientation to the tourism workforce. This has resulted in an impoverished, unsustainable, and transient workforce that does not meet the aims of UN sustainable goals...
    $373.00

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism
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    The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism

    This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. It examines current debates, questions and controversies of tourism in the wake of popular culture phenomena and explores the...
    $121.00

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  • Resort Spatiality Resort Spatiality
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    Resort Spatiality

    This book theorises resorts as distinct kinds of urban milieux, capturing the complexity of destinations famous for 'sun, sand and sex' mass tourism. Drawing on qualitative field research (participant observation, interviews and photography), the book...
    $111.00

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  • Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Tourism Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Tourism
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    Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Tourism

    Tourism has become increasingly shaped by neoliberal policies, yet the consequences of this neoliberalisation are relatively under-explored. This book provides a wide-ranging inquiry into the particular manifestations of different variants of...
    $111.00

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  • Pharmaceutical Public Policy Pharmaceutical Public Policy
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    Pharmaceutical Public Policy

    As the most common health-care intervention, prescription drug use shares the most important characteristics of the health-care system in the United States. When everything works well, it makes possible breathtakingly successful applications of science...
    $87.00

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  • Festival Encounters Festival Encounters
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    Festival Encounters

    Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional significance, and they are also important parts of community building.This book focuses on these...
    $111.00

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  • Being and Dwelling through Tourism Being and Dwelling through Tourism
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    Being and Dwelling through Tourism

    Much of the existing literature seeks to make sense of tourism based on singular approaches such as visuality, identity, mobility, performance and globalised consumption. What is missing, however, is an overarching framework within which these valuable...
    $111.00

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  • The Morphology of Tourism The Morphology of Tourism
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    The Morphology of Tourism

    Morphological research studies the physical form of landscapes, including how landscape structures function and operate, the adaptability of forms, and how functions and forms change over time. Applying the methods and models of morphology to tourism,...
    $111.00

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  • Tourism Events in Asia Tourism Events in Asia
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    Tourism Events in Asia

    The roles and impacts of planned events within tourism are of increasing importance for destination competitiveness. Tourism Events in Asia is a unique contribution to the understanding of the impacts of events in the development planning, promotion and...
    $111.00

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  • Wheelchair Skills Assessment and Training Wheelchair Skills Assessment and Training
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    Wheelchair Skills Assessment and Training

    This book provides a wide spectrum of readers with comprehensive but easily understandable protocols for the assessment and training of wheelchair skills. The Wheelchair Research Team at Dalhousie University and the Capital District Health Authority in...
    $128.00

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  • Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance
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    Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance

    Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance situates our travel imaginaries, those dream destinations on our travel bucket lists, as co-constructed by the tourist industry, state development policies, and community negotiations, and as framed by...
    $111.00

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  • Leading Primary Care Leading Primary Care
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    Leading Primary Care

    This new book of leadership narratives fleshes out the reality of working to achieve change in primary care and will be relevant to a wide primary care audience, empowering both clinicians and non-clinicians to recognize and use their leadership...
    $282.00

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  • Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience
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    Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience

    Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience: The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism aims to identify, analyse and underline the importance of having a conceptual framework designed to develop and improve the risk management and resilience for...
    $137.00

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  • Optimizing Your Capacity to Care Optimizing Your Capacity to Care
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    Optimizing Your Capacity to Care

    Our nation's capacity to care is becoming increasingly stressed as an aging and increasingly unhealthy population collides with a relative reduction in the numbers of clinicians and ever-tightening financial resources. If even the mildest of future-state...
    $87.00

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  • A Healthcare Solution A Healthcare Solution
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    A Healthcare Solution

    The evidence is undeniable. By any measure, the US spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, yet its health outcomes as measure by longevity are in the bottom half among developed countries, and its health-related quality of life has...
    $87.00

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  • Healthcare IT Transformation Healthcare IT Transformation
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    Healthcare IT Transformation

    This book gives examples from healthcare institutions that are using IT automation and innovation to drive change and provides guidance on the strategic direction of HIT over the next five years. Improving the delivery of healthcare through HIT is vital...
    $87.00

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  • Mastering Physician Engagement Mastering Physician Engagement
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    Mastering Physician Engagement

    Twenty-first century healthcare will be defined by better care, smarter spending, and healthier people. All eyes are on technology as the means to drive down costs and improve efficiency, enabling physicians to deliver care in a way that realizes the...
    $87.00

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  • Creating Heritage Creating Heritage
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    Creating Heritage

    This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or...
    $111.00

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  • Anthropocene Ecologies Anthropocene Ecologies
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    Anthropocene Ecologies

    Anthropocene Ecologies brings political ecology and tourism studies to bear on the Anthropocene. Through a collective examination of political ecologies of the Anthropocene by leading scholars in anthropology, geography and tourism studies, the book...
    $111.00

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  • Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred
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    Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred

    Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred: Understanding the Geographies of Religion and Spirituality in Sacred Travel examines the many ways in which pilgrimage engages with sacredness, delving beyond the officially recognized, and often...
    $111.00

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  • Mountain Resort Marketing and Management Mountain Resort Marketing and Management
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    Mountain Resort Marketing and Management

    Mountain resort tourism is a competitive environment, experiencing increasing growth in new markets such as China, that require the knowledge and skills developed by mature markets. This book provides these insights by offering a critical and up-to-date...
    $111.00

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  • Gender and Finance Gender and Finance
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    Gender and Finance

    This book examines the world of finance and the role of gender within it. It looks at the financial services industry, arguably the most powerful and remunerative sector that exists, and shows how it was created by men for men.The author explains how...
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  • Events and Well-being Events and Well-being
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    Events and Well-being

    This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of events and well-being. It uses empirical case studies to help us better understand how events foster positive well-being or counter negative well-being for event organisers, participants,...
    $111.00

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  • Catering Like a Pro Catering Like a Pro
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    Catering Like a Pro

    Essential information and how-to advice from the best in the businessCatering Like a Pro is a must-have resource for anyone thinking about starting a catering business. Packed with recipes and exciting new ideas for creating theme events and dramatic...
    $34.00

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  • Trust, Tourism Development and Planning Trust, Tourism Development and Planning
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    Trust, Tourism Development and Planning

    The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society, social relations, and development processes. However, numerous studies suggest that societal trust and citizen's trust in government and its institutions are on the decline,...
    $410.00

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