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Download or read book Bad Tourist written by Suzanne Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.
Book Synopsis I Am The Dark Tourist by : H.E. Sawyer
Download or read book I Am The Dark Tourist written by H.E. Sawyer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Tourism is the practice of visiting sites associated with death. While participation increases, dark tourism remains a mystery, regarded as the tourist industry’s dirty little secret. This book challenges the misconceptions of a ghoulish practice through the eyes of a self-confessed dark tourist, who has spent forty years visiting the world’s dark sites. From the cobbled streets of Whitechapel on a Jack The Ripper walking tour to the snowy suicide forest of Aokigahara, Japan, H. E. Sawyer ticks off the darkest sites on earth. He visits locations that have promoted themselves to become major tourist attractions, contrasting with those dark places that seek to remain hidden from view. In the course of his travels he wrestles with the ultimate question regarding dark tourism; why would anyone want to visit sites touched by death in the first place?
Download or read book Johor written by Francis E Hutchinson and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, the Malaysian state of Johor—along with Singapore and the Indonesian island of Batam—launched the Growth Triangle to attract foreign direct investment. For Johor, this drive was very successful, transforming its economy and driving up income levels. Today, Johor is one of Malaysia’s “developed” states, housing large clusters of electrical and electronics, food processing, and furniture producing firms. While welcome, this structural transformation has also entailed important challenges and strategic choices. After three decades, Johor’s manufacture-for-export model is under question, as it faces increasing competition and flat-lining technological capabilities. In response, the state has sought to diversify its economy through strategic investments in new, mostly service-based activities. Yet, Johor retains pockets of excellence in traditional sectors that also require support and policy attention. The state’s economic transformation has also been accompanied by far-reaching political, social, and environmental change. Not least, Johor’s growing population has generated demand for affordable housing and put pressure on public services. The strain has been exacerbated by workers from other states and overseas. These demographic factors and large-scale projects have, in turn, put stress on the environment. These economic and social changes have also had political ramifications. While Johor is a bastion of two of the country’s oldest and most established political parties, the state’s large, urban and connected electorate has made it hospitable terrain for new political organisations. Beyond electoral politics, Johor is also the home of a powerful and influential royal family, with very specific ideas about its role in the state’s political life. Building on earlier work by the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on the Singapore-Johor-Riau Islands Cross-border Region, this book focuses on this important Malaysian state, as it deals with important domestic challenges on one hand and strives to engage with international markets on the other. “I have always felt that there are many more complementarities possible between Singapore and Johor. This would be to the benefit of both economies, but the political division between the two was just too great. The two economies lived adjacent but separate lives—Singapore looking out to the world and Johor looking north—until initiatives such as the Iskandar Malaysia development corridor began to change things significantly. The concern now is that the pendulum may have swung too much the other way, driven by the huge income and price differentials as well as Singapore’s global city status. Francis and Serina’s compilation is a welcomed attempt at understanding Johor in a much more comprehensive manner; not just its changing economy but how its politics and society have been impacted by these changes – which is a more endogenized view of economic integration.” — Dr Nungsari Ahmad Radhi, former MP Balik Palau and Executive Director, Khazanah Nasional “Drawing on the expertise of internationally known specialists, this insightful collection explores the multiple ways in which Johor’s economic development has influenced the contemporary political scene, and the effects on local society and the environment. Skillfully edited and meticulously researched, Johor: Abode of Development? is not merely required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Malaysia, but will be of immense value to historians of the future.”—Barbara Watson Andaya, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i
Book Synopsis The Tourist Attraction by : Sarah Morgenthaler
Download or read book The Tourist Attraction written by Sarah Morgenthaler and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curl up with a quirky small-town Alaskan rom-com that'll leave you laughing over: A grumpy local and the sunny tourist who turns his world upside down A rogue moose who threatens to steal every scene A vacation you'll never forget And a sweet romance that doesn't need to scald the pages to burn its way into your heart He had a strict "no tourists" policy...until she broke all of his rules.When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he's stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless parade of resort visitors who couldn't interest him less. Not even the sweet, enthusiastic tourist in the corner who blushes every time he looks her way... Two weeks in Alaska isn't just the top item on Zoey Caldwell's bucket list. It's the whole bucket. One look at the mountain town of Moose Springs and she's smitten. But when an act of kindness brings Zoey into Graham's world, she may just find there's more to the grumpy local than meets the eye...and more to love in Moose Springs than just the Alaskan wilderness. This story of Alaska marries together all the things you didn't realize you needed: a whirlwind vacation, a friendly moose, a grumpy diner owner, a quirky tourist, plenty of restaurant humor, and a happy ending that'll take you away from it all.
Book Synopsis I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now by : Stephen A. King
Download or read book I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now written by Stephen A. King and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In I’m Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional materials portray the Delta’s blues culture and its musicians. Those involved in selling the blues in Mississippi work to promote the music while often conveniently forgetting the state’s historical record of racial and economic injustice. King’s research includes numerous interviews with blues musicians and promoters, chambers of commerce, local and regional tourism entities, and members of the Mississippi Blues Commission. This book is the first critical account of Mississippi’s blues tourism industry. From the late 1970s until 2000, Mississippi’s blues tourism industry was fragmented, decentralized, and localized, as each community competed for tourist dollars. By 2003–2004, with the creation of the Mississippi Blues Commission, the promotion of the blues became more centralized as state government played an increasing role in promoting Mississippi’s blues heritage. Blues tourism has the potential to generate new revenue in one of the poorest states in the country, repair the state’s public image, and serve as a vehicle for racial reconciliation.
Book Synopsis Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene by : Tzanelli, Rodanthi
Download or read book Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene written by Tzanelli, Rodanthi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book considers COVID-19 as one pandemic amongst many, forming an episodic era of ebbing and flowing crises: the Virocene. Investigating COVID-19 in the context of the phenomenology of the crisis, it offers critical exploration of key theses in the study of mobility and futures, travel and citizenship. Through thought-provoking and insightful analysis Rodanthi Tzanelli suggests that COVID-19, and any highly infectious virus that follows, evolves into the new self-governing principle of various forms of movement, acting as an ontological magnet: as mobilities become reshaped by remote technologies, the very order of reality changes.
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Music and Tourism written by Chris Gibson and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Tourism is the first book to comprehensively examine the links between travel and music. It combines contemporary and historical analysis of the economic and social impact of music tourism, with discussions of the cultural politics of authenticity and identity. Music tourism evokes nostalgia and meaning, and celebrates both heritage and hedonism. It is a product of commercialisation that can create community, but that also often demands artistic compromise. Diverse case studies, from the USA and UK to Australia, Jamaica and Vanuatu, illustrate the global extent of music tourism, its contradictions and pleasures.
Book Synopsis The Media and the Tourist Imagination by : David Crouch
Download or read book The Media and the Tourist Imagination written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes, and they both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. A number of common themes and concerns arise, and the contributions included are divided between those: written from media studies awareness perspective, concerned with the way the media imagines travel and tourism written from the point of view of the study of tourism, considering how tourism practices are affected or altered by the media that attempt a direct comparison between the practices of tourism and the media. Incorporating case study material from the UK, the Caribbean, Australia, the US, France and Switzerland, this significant text - ideal for students of culture, media and tourism studies - discusses tourism and the media as separate processes through which identity is constructed in relation to space and place.
Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Marilyn R Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to Between Worlds: Essays on Culture and Belonging, Marilyn Gardner¿s first exploration of the Third Culture Kid (TCK) experience, probes more deeply into the journey that forms a TCK¿s identity. Memories of joy and pain, close friendships and loneliness interweave in this compelling portrait of an international childhood. In Growing Up Between Worlds, Marilyn Gardner traces a journey of growing faith and emerging identity in a small missionary community. From the close quarters of boarding school, to the strangeness of furloughs in her parents¿ native Massachusetts, this honest portrayal of a young girl¿s struggles with faith, friendship, and belonging will resonate deeply with anyone who has lived between worlds.
Book Synopsis Understanding and Governing Sustainable Tourism Mobility by : Scott A. Cohen
Download or read book Understanding and Governing Sustainable Tourism Mobility written by Scott A. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a growing contribution to climate change, tourist and traveller behaviour is currently not acknowledged as an important sector within the development of climate policy. Whilst tourists may be increasingly aware of potential impacts on climate change there is evidence that most are unwilling to modify their actual behaviours. Influencing individual behaviour in tourism and informing effective governance is therefore an essential part of climate change mitigation. This significant volume is the first to explore the psychological and social factors that may contribute to and inhibit sustainable change in the context of tourist and traveller behaviour. It draws on a range of disciplines to offer a critical review of the psychological understandings and behavioural aspects of climate change and tourism mobilities, in addition to governance and policies based upon psychological, behavioural and social mechanisms. It therefore provides a more informed understanding of how technology, infrastructure and cost distribution can be developed in order to reach stronger mitigation goals whilst ensuring that resistance from consumers for socio-psychological reasons are minimized. Written by leading academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and regions this ground breaking volume is essential reading for all those interested in the effective governance of tourism’s contribution to climate change now and in the future.
Book Synopsis Administration's Balance-of-payments Proposals by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Download or read book Administration's Balance-of-payments Proposals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers import restrictions and foreign travel tax to reduce balance of payments deficit. Includes "Maintaining the Strength of the U.S. Dollar in a Strong Free World Economy," by U.S. Treasury Dept, Jan. 1968 (43-224 p.), pt.1; Considers international ticket tax, travel expenditure tax, and fewer duty free exemptions to reduce balance-of-payments deficit. Includes "Report to the President of the U.S." by Industry-Government Special Task Force on Travel, Feb., 1968 (427-477 p.), pt.2.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Tourism by : Jafar Jafari
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Tourism written by Jafar Jafari and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to great acclaim, this is the definitive one-volume reference source to the tourism industry. Comprising over one thousand entries written by an international team of contributors, it explores definitions, concepts and perspectives.
Book Synopsis Global Climate Change and Coastal Tourism by : Andrew L Jones
Download or read book Global Climate Change and Coastal Tourism written by Andrew L Jones and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon the book Disappearing Destinations (Jones and Phillips 2010) and its conclusion that promoted the need to recognize problems, meet expectations and manage solutions Global Climate Change and Coastal Tourism explores current threats to, and consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal destinations. Part 1 of the book provides a theoretical platform and addresses topics such as sustainability, tourism impacts, governance trade and innovation and how the media addresses climate change and tourism. It also assesses management and policy options for the future sustainability of threatened tourism coastal destinations. Part 2 presents case studies from all regions of the world (Europe, The Americas, Asia, Africa and Australasia) which synthesise findings to make recommendations that can be used to promote strategies that ameliorate projected impacts of climate change on coastal tourism infrastructure and in turn promote the future sustainability of coastal tourism destinations. This is a timely and informative text with appeal to researchers, undergraduate and post graduate students of tourism management, tourism planning, sustainable tourism development and leisure management, coastal tourism/management, environmental management/planning, geography, coastal zone management or climate change studies.
Book Synopsis Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse by : Bielenia-Grajewska, Magdalena
Download or read book Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse written by Bielenia-Grajewska, Magdalena and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of linguistic optimization methods in the tourism, travel, and hospitality industry has improved customer service and business strategies within the field. It provides an opportunity for tourists to explore another culture, building tolerance and overall exposure to different ways of life. Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the role of language and linguistics in the travel industry. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as intercultural communication, adventure travel, and tourism marketing, this publication is an ideal resource for linguists, managers, researchers, economists, and professionals interested in emerging developments in tourism and travel.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :490 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Office of International Travel and Tourism by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Download or read book Office of International Travel and Tourism written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Administration's Balance-of-payments Proposals: February 5 and 6, 1968 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Download or read book Administration's Balance-of-payments Proposals: February 5 and 6, 1968 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers import restrictions and foreign travel tax to reduce balance of payments deficit. Includes "Maintaining the Strength of the U.S. Dollar in a Strong Free World Economy," by U.S. Treasury Dept, Jan. 1968 (43-224 p.), pt.1; Considers international ticket tax, travel expenditure tax, and fewer duty free exemptions to reduce balance-of-payments deficit. Includes "Report to the President of the U.S." by Industry-Government Special Task Force on Travel, Feb., 1968 (427-477 p.), pt.2.
