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Wimdu City Guides: No. 2 Barcelona

Author : Joey Davey
Publisher : Wimdu GmbH
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wimdu City Guides: No. 2 Barcelona written by Joey Davey and published by Wimdu GmbH. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wimdu City Guides: No.2 Barcelona offers detailed advice and insights into Spain’s most popular tourist destination. This free travel guide comprises 11,500 words over 70 pages, covering everything that you need to know when visiting the city - from public transport to Top 10 lists. Plan your next trip to Barcelona with this concise and easy to use eBook, suitable for iPad, tablet, smartphone or desktop viewing. Inside Wimdu City Guides: No.2 Barcelona: 10 focused chapters, offering a structured summary of some of the best historical attractions, cultural sights, restaurants and much more. 60 sights, attractions and points of interest, categorised under relevant headings. Useful tips and essential info - including entrance fees, directions, websites and emergency contacts. 46 full-colour images and maps. Where to stay chapter, featuring the five most popular districts in Barcelona with information about what to expect. Author: Joseph Davey Editors: Claire Williams and Joy Corkery Design and Maps by Joanna Zamojta Art Direction by Cassie Zhen About Wimdu: As Europe’s leading online platform for city apartments, Wimdu offers places to stay for all tastes and budgets. By connecting guests and hosts worldwide, Wimdu offers an enjoyable, authentic travel experience for those looking for a smart alternative to hotels. From penthouse apartments in New York to cosy studios in Paris, Wimdu’s range of over 300,000 properties in more than 150 countries ensures that everybody can find attractive, affordable accommodation for their next trip. www.wimdu.co.uk

Peer to Peer Accommodation Networks

Author : Sara Dolnicar
Publisher : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1911396536
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Peer to Peer Accommodation Networks written by Sara Dolnicar and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to present a new conceptual framework which offers an initial explanation for the continuing and rapid success of such 'disruptive innovators’ and their effects on the international hospitality industry. It discusses all the hot topics in this area, with a specific focus on Airbnb, in the international context.

Collaborative Economy and Tourism

Author : Dianne Dredge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319517996
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Collaborative Economy and Tourism written by Dianne Dredge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism. House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism, couchsurfing, dinner hosting, social enterprise and similar phenomena are among these collective innovations in tourism that are shaking the very bedrock of an industrial system that has been traditionally sustained along commercial value chains. To date there has been very little investigation of these trends, which have been inspired by, amongst other things, de-industrialization processes and post-capitalist forms of production and consumption, postmaterialism, the rise of the third sector and collaborative governance. Addressing that gap, this book explores the character, depth and breadth of these disruptions, the creative opportunities for tourism that are emerging from them, and how governments are responding to these new challenges. In doing so, the book provides both theoretical and practical insights into the future of tourism in a world that is, paradoxically, becoming both increasingly collaborative and individualized.

Law and the "Sharing Economy"

Author : Derek McKee
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776627538
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Law and the "Sharing Economy" written by Derek McKee and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversy shrouds sharing economy platforms. It stems partially from the platforms’ economic impact, which is felt most acutely in certain sectors: Uber drivers compete with taxi drivers; Airbnb hosts compete with hotels. Other consequences lie elsewhere: Uber is associated with a trend toward low-paying, precarious work, whereas Airbnb is accused of exacerbating real estate speculation and raising the cost of long-term rental housing. While governments in some jurisdictions have attempted to rein in the platforms, technology has enabled such companies to bypass conventional regulatory categories, generating accusations of “unfair competition” as well as debates about the merits of existing regulatory regimes. Indeed, the platforms blur a number of familiar distinctions, including personal versus commercial activity; infrastructure versus content; contractual autonomy versus hierarchical control. These ambiguities can stymie legal regimes that rely on these distinctions as organizing principles, including those relating to labour, competition, tax, insurance, information, the prohibition of discrimination, as well as specialized sectoral regulation. This book is organized around five themes: technologies of regulation; regulating technology; the sites of regulation (local to global); regulating markets; and regulating labour. Together, the chapters offer a rich variety of insights on the regulation of the sharing economy, both in terms of the traditional areas of law they bring to bear, and the theoretical perspectives that inform their analysis. Published in English.

The Power of New Urban Tourism

Author : Claudia Ba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000417581
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Power of New Urban Tourism written by Claudia Ba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames, the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world. Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors, with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum, the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania. This focus allows a cross-cultural evaluation of New Urban Tourism and its dynamic, and changing conception transforming and subverting cities and tourism alike. The Power of New Urban Tourism will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, economics, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, ethnology and anthropology.

The Routledge Handbook of Destination Marketing

Author : Dogan Gursoy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351588273
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Destination Marketing written by Dogan Gursoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key contemporary marketing concepts, issues and challenges that affect destinations within a multidisciplinary global perspective. Uniquely combining both the theoretical and practical approaches, this handbook discusses cutting edge marketing questions such as innovation in destinations, sustainability, social media, peer-to-peer applications and web 3.0. Drawing from the knowledge and expertise of 70 prominent scholars from over 20 countries around the world, The Routledge Handbook of Destination Marketing aims to create an international platform for balanced academic research with practical applications, in order to foster synergetic interaction between academia and industry. For these reasons, it will be a valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners in the field of destination marketing.

Overtourism

Author : Hugues Séraphin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030424588
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Overtourism written by Hugues Séraphin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term ‘overtourism’ has come into prominence since 2017 and refers to the fact that, due to various factors such as more sophisticated marketing strategies, a large number of tourists visit the same place at the same time. The consequences are felt by the locals, the tourists themselves as well as the environment. As a result, tourismphobia and anti-tourism movements have emerged as ways for locals to reclaim their lifestyle by refusing to interact with visitors and sometimes discouraging them to visit. This book presents new research on this emerging phenomenon and discusses the main causes and implications before putting forward possible solutions. The authors take an interpretivist approach in order to unveil aspects of overtourism that have not yet been discussed. It provides case studies and explores topics such as tourism education, overtourism of cultural and heritage sites, and the need for sustainable tourism development.

Sustainable Urban Tourism

Author : Romila Chawla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Urban Tourism written by Romila Chawla and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imposing Regulation on Advanced Algorithms

Author : Fotios Fitsilis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030279790
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Imposing Regulation on Advanced Algorithms written by Fotios Fitsilis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the necessity and perhaps urgency for the regulation of algorithms on which new technologies rely; technologies that have the potential to re-shape human societies. From commerce and farming to medical care and education, it is difficult to find any aspect of our lives that will not be affected by these emerging technologies. At the same time, artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, cognitive computing, blockchain, virtual reality and augmented reality, belong to the fields most likely to affect law and, in particular, administrative law. The book examines universally applicable patterns in administrative decisions and judicial rulings. First, similarities and divergence in behavior among the different cases are identified by analyzing parameters ranging from geographical location and administrative decisions to judicial reasoning and legal basis. As it turns out, in several of the cases presented, sources of general law, such as competition or labor law, are invoked as a legal basis, due to the lack of current specialized legislation. This book also investigates the role and significance of national and indeed supranational regulatory bodies for advanced algorithms and considers ENISA, an EU agency that focuses on network and information security, as an interesting candidate for a European regulator of advanced algorithms. Lastly, it discusses the involvement of representative institutions in algorithmic regulation.

Overtourism

Author : Harald Pechlaner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429582609
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Overtourism written by Harald Pechlaner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overtourism explores a growing phenomenon in tourism that is currently creating tensions in both urban and rural tourist destinations worldwide. This volume proposes a framework for a series of possible solutions and management strategies for dealing with overtourism and the various negative impacts that large quantities of tourists can impose. Questioning the causes of this phenomenon – such as increased prosperity and mobility, technological development, issues of security and stigma for certain parts of the world, and so on – this book supposes that better visitor management strategies and distribution of tourists can offset the negative impacts of overtourism. Individual chapters focus on a range of destinations including Venice, Barcelona and Dubrovnik, as well as UNESCO cultural and natural heritage sites, where local political actors and public authorities are not always able to deal with the situation effectively. Integrating research and practice, this book will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers and academics in tourism, development studies, cultural studies and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management.

Overtourism

Author : Rachel Dodds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110605708
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Overtourism written by Rachel Dodds and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overtourism has become a major concern for an increasing number of destinations as tourism numbers continue to grow, stimulated by general economic and technological growth and the expansion of the global middle class. This, coupled with relentless promotion of tourism by many organisations and destinations, has increased tourism, despite growing opposition to excessive development. This book is the first academic volume to deal with this topic and contains chapters by experienced researchers in the tourism field, taking a multidisciplinary approach to review and explain the subject. The introductory section begins with an overview of the current situation and the forces enabling the appearance of overtourism. This is followed by a number of case studies from a range of destinations around the world, both urban and rural, which share the same problems. The concluding section includes a discussion of potential mitigation methods and approaches and a final assessment of future developments. The focus and relevance of this book are not just for academics, as it offers insights into destinations, enablers and solutions for how to address the issue of overtourism on a wide variety of scales. This book offers globally relevant perspectives on destinations as varied as Venice and Barcelona, that have gained global media attention, as well as less publicised rural areas and developing destinations.

Life as a Bilingual

Author : François Grosjean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108838642
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Life as a Bilingual written by François Grosjean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on those who know and use two or more languages: Who are they? How do they do it?

The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy

Author : Nestor M. Davidson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108266207
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy written by Nestor M. Davidson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook grapples conceptually and practically with what the sharing economy - which includes entities ranging from large for-profit firms like Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Taskrabbit, and Upwork to smaller, non-profit collaborative initiatives - means for law, and how law, in turn, is shaping critical aspects of the sharing economy. Featuring a diverse set of contributors from many academic disciplines and countries, the book compiles the most important, up-to-date research on the regulation of the sharing economy. The first part surveys the nature of the sharing economy, explores the central challenge of balancing innovation and regulatory concerns, and examines the institutions confronting these regulatory challenges, and the second part turns to a series of specific regulatory domains, including labor and employment law, consumer protection, tax, and civil rights. This groundbreaking work should be read by anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between law and the sharing economy.

Competitiveness and Economic Development in Europe

Author : Sławomir I. Bukowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000373282
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Competitiveness and Economic Development in Europe written by Sławomir I. Bukowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of an economy to adapt quickly, flexibly, and effectively to the demands of the changing international economic environment can only be investigated using the achievements of other national economies or regions as a benchmark. This book analyzes the fundamental factors of competitiveness, which will, in turn, facilitate economic development and growth, in the new post-crisis environment. In the economic, social, legal, and technological environment that has emerged in recent years, as well as in the period after the recent financial crisis, it is critical to define, assess, and implement new pathways to competitiveness and economic development. The book covers all aspects of competitiveness and economic growth, from financial intermediaries to tourism and the digital economy, and from regulation and corporate governance to exchange rate dynamics and monetary policy issues. It uses empirical findings from a variety of different countries with divergent economic structures and policies. It examines the new system of production, and the technological, commercial, financial and institutional environment, with the aim of recommending a proportional division of benefits and costs of economic growth. It offers a fresh, holistic, and flexible concept to underscore the new relationship between competitiveness and economic growth. Such an approach is needed, whereby competitiveness is no longer a zero-sum game between countries, but is achievable for all countries. The book recommends future directions and offers policy solutions, and as such, will appeal to students, researchers, and policymakers, as well as those interested in the role of competitiveness in the operation of markets, productivity, and economic development, and how it might foster innovation and growth.

Algorithms

Author : Panos Louridas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262358670
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Algorithms written by Panos Louridas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Real World Algorithms: A Beginner's Guide, Panos Louridas is back to introduce algorithms in an accessible manner, utilizing various examples to explain not just what algorithms are but how they work. Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms and what they do, in this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Panos Louridas offers an introduction to algorithms that is accessible to the nonspecialist reader. Louridas explains not just what algorithms are but also how they work, offering a wide range of examples and keeping mathematics to a minimum.

Real-World Algorithms

Author : Panos Louridas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262338157
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Real-World Algorithms written by Panos Louridas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to algorithms for readers with no background in advanced mathematics or computer science, emphasizing examples and real-world problems. Algorithms are what we do in order not to have to do something. Algorithms consist of instructions to carry out tasks—usually dull, repetitive ones. Starting from simple building blocks, computer algorithms enable machines to recognize and produce speech, translate texts, categorize and summarize documents, describe images, and predict the weather. A task that would take hours can be completed in virtually no time by using a few lines of code in a modern scripting program. This book offers an introduction to algorithms through the real-world problems they solve. The algorithms are presented in pseudocode and can readily be implemented in a computer language. The book presents algorithms simply and accessibly, without overwhelming readers or insulting their intelligence. Readers should be comfortable with mathematical fundamentals and have a basic understanding of how computers work; all other necessary concepts are explained in the text. After presenting background in pseudocode conventions, basic terminology, and data structures, chapters cover compression, cryptography, graphs, searching and sorting, hashing, classification, strings, and chance. Each chapter describes real problems and then presents algorithms to solve them. Examples illustrate the wide range of applications, including shortest paths as a solution to paragraph line breaks, strongest paths in elections systems, hashes for song recognition, voting power Monte Carlo methods, and entropy for machine learning. Real-World Algorithms can be used by students in disciplines from economics to applied sciences. Computer science majors can read it before using a more technical text.

Damodaran on Valuation

Author : Aswath Damodaran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470049375
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Damodaran on Valuation written by Aswath Damodaran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aswath Damodaran is simply the best valuation teacher around. If you are interested in the theory or practice of valuation, you should have Damodaran on Valuation on your bookshelf. You can bet that I do." -- Michael J. Mauboussin, Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management and author of More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places In order to be a successful CEO, corporate strategist, or analyst, understanding the valuation process is a necessity. The second edition of Damodaran on Valuation stands out as the most reliable book for answering many of today?s critical valuation questions. Completely revised and updated, this edition is the ideal book on valuation for CEOs and corporate strategists. You'll gain an understanding of the vitality of today?s valuation models and develop the acumen needed for the most complex and subtle valuation scenarios you will face.