This text explores a range of strategies, both institutional and individual, which have been developed by academic and support staff, to foster the kind of atmosphere, facilities and attitudes in relation to learning which support systems.

Immer mehr Betriebe dieser Branchen setzen auf Gesundheit. Dabei allerdings nimmt Gesundheit eine faszinierende Vielfalt an und umfasst ebenso Aspekte der Vorbeugung, Gesundheitsforderung, Heilung und Linderung von Krankheit, aber auch Kosmetik, Wellness, Bodystyling und psychische Gesundheit. Das Buch weist ebenso einen makrookonomischen Blickwinkel auf, indem es die internationale Marktentwicklung betrachtet, aber auch der mikrookonomische Aspekt im Sinne des Managements konkreter Betriebe in diesem Markt (Spa) nimmt einen breiten Raum ein."

Seit den 1990er Jahren haben thematisierte Freizeit- und Konsumeinrichtungen weltweit einen Boom erlebt - von Themenparks und Themenhotels uber Urban Entertainment Center und Markenerlebniswelten bis hin zu Erlebnis-Zoos. Angesichts ihres Erfolgs dienen diese kommerziellen Themenwelten zunehmend auch als Vorbilder fur offentliche Akteure - z. B. Kultureinrichtungen, Stadte und Tourismusdestinationen. Worauf basiert der Erfolg der thematisierten Erlebnisangebote? Welche Inszenierungstechniken und Marketingmassnahmen kommen zum Einsatz? Wie wird sich der Markt der Themenwelten kunftig entwickeln? Welche Trends zeichnen sich bei der Thematisierung des realen Raumes ab? Antworten auf diese Fragen gibt das aktuelle und umfassende Studienbuch - die erste deutschsprachige Monographie zu diesem Thema."

Transport is debated by many, and liberalization processes, transport policy, transport and climate change and increased competition between transport modes are the subject of heated discussion. Smart Transport Networks illustrates that whether concerning road, water, rail or air, knowledge on the structure of transport markets is crucial in order to tackle transport issues. The book therefore explores key factors concerning the structure of transport markets, their environmental impact, and questions why decision makers often fail to tackle transport-related problems. Three of the key factors that underpin the relationship between transport and society are analyzed in detail from a variety of perspectives, each with an empirical focus: market structure and the allocation mechanisms at work; sustainability, encompassing the characteristics of the physical environment, the availability of natural resources and the effects of transport activities; and decision making, detailing transport policy and attempts to change transport systems. Practical guidelines on how to effectively deal with complex transport issues are also presented. This book will prove an important resource read for academics, researchers, and students with an interest in economics - particularly transport and public sector economics, geography and regional and urban studies. Policy makers and planners in the fields of transport, environment and regional planning will also find this book to be an invaluable reference tool. Contributors: B. Benson, K. Button, G. Dane, J.C. Garcia-Palomares, H. Geerlings, R. Gerike, J. Gutierrez, F. Hulsmann, F. Iannone, M. Kashiha, B. Kickhoefer, B. Kuipers, C. Macharis, J.C. Martin, H. Meersman, K. Nagel, P. Nijkamp, P. Rietveld, C. Roman, C. Sys, J.-C. Thill, H.J.P. Timmermans, E. Van de Voorde, T. Vanelslander, T. Vanoutrive, A. Verhetsel, D. Yang

This volume consists of papers presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Computer Aided Scheduling of Public Transport, which was held in Montreal from August 19th to the 23rd, 1990. Since the first Workshop in Chicago in 1975 the field had matured considerably. In 1975, there were no presentations that described systems which had been implemented and used on a regular basis. By 1980, in Leeds, and certainly by 1983, in Montreal, several systems were in regular use. They were based on both heuristics and mathematical programming techniques. In 1990, there were more than one hundred transit companies using computer-aided scheduling tools in their regular operations. The scope of the Workshop was broadened in 1987, in Hamburg, so that topics related to scheduling may be introduced. We find, for example, in this book several papers on the technology related to the collection of data and/or the data bases required for scheduling and planning activities."

Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw. Brandenburg-Preussens in Form von wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen, Vortragen, Tagungen und Veroeffentlichungen sowie durch Serviceleistungen. Dabei kooperiert die Kommission auch mit anderen Institutionen und begleitet wissenschaftliche und praktische Vorhaben von allgemeinem oeffentlichen Interesse. In der Schriftenreihe werden die Ergebnisse der einzelnen wissenschaftlichen Projekte der Kommission veroeffentlicht.

The book aims at giving the methodological framework for design decision support systems. Several applications are also described in detail, ranging from environment control, production planning, transportation planning. The book is of special interest to operations researchers, environment specialists, production planners, and transportation engineers.

For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific 'silos'. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of movement in a more integrated approach to urban settlement, and how thinking, policies and actions need to change. South Africa is used as a particularly good case study, since patterns of sprawl, fragmentation and separation have been exacerbated by apartheid, while recent legislation has demanded a reversal of these tendencies.

This dictionary is testimony to the dynamic nature of the transportation and logistics field. The field continues to grow and evolve into an increasing myriad of orientations. This work stems back to the middle 1970s with the first edition by Wallace I. Little (1921 - 1977). The second edition in 1982 contained over five hundred additions and nearly sixty major alterations. This tJ:llrd edition contains over three hundred additional entries as well as major ai~erations to over fifty of them. Transportation continues to change into a market driven industry. The user side reflects market- and management-driven emphases that would have been labeled as pure fiction just a decade ago. Some of these changes are: * Deregulation * Purchasing evolving closer to logistics and having greater roles in with traffic * Logistics having close association with production, scheduling, and related areas * Computers and electronic links becoming major parts of the traffic/ transportation/purchasing landscape * Greater international corporate orientations * Need for logistics flexibility regarding pro-action in the face of energy, interest cost, inflation, international competition, and other major environmental forces * Increased roles of non-economic regulations and policies In addition to the changes in the transport-traffic management interface, the shipper side of the world has extended to be linked with such titles and functions as materials, distribution, warehousing, inventory, customer service, order entry, planning, production scheduling, and in many cases purchasing. This dictionary is a document that will continue to grow.

Das Buch vermittelt einen Uberblick uber den weltweiten Tourismus und ordnet speziell die Entwicklungen in Europa und in Deutschland darin ein."

This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems. Several implementations are given as illustrative examples, along with applications to several typical vehicle routing problems. As a first step, a general presentation intends to make the reader more familiar with the related field of logistics and combinatorial optimization. This preamble is completed with a description of significant heuristic methods classically used to provide feasible solutions quickly, and local improvement moves widely used to search for enhanced solutions. The overview of these fundamentals allows appreciating the core of the work devoted to an analysis of metaheuristic methods for vehicle routing problems. Those methods are exposed according to their feature of working either on a sequence of single solutions, or on a set of solutions, or even by hybridizing metaheuristic approaches with others kind of methods.

Das Standardwerk zur Urlaubs-Animation in dritter Auflage Es ist ebenso ein Zeitdokument des modernen Tourismus, wie eine Handlungsanweisung zum animativen Urlaub fur Tourismusunternehmen, Studierende der Touristikstudiengange, Gastebetreuer und Urlauber. Aus dem Inhalt: Einleitung. Grundlagen der Animation. Urlaubserwartungen und Urlaubsaktivitaten. Inhaltliche Bereiche der Animation im Urlaub. Die Person - der Animateur, die Animateurin. Grundlagen und Prinzipien der Animation. Systembeschreibungen - Beispiele realisierter Animation."

The terms travel and tourism are often used interchangeably in tourism literature. This comprehensive textbook provides students with essential knowledge of the intricate relationship existing between travel, transport and tourism. The book analyses the structure, functions, activities, strategies and practices of each of the sectors in the travel industry, such as airlines, airports, tour operators, travel agencies and cruises. It is structured into six parts, covering all modes of transport (air, land and water), travel intermediation, the tour operation business and impacts and prospects for the future. International case studies are integrated throughout to showcase practical realities and challenges in the travel industry and to aid students' learning and understanding. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this is an invaluable resource for students of tourism, hospitality, transport and travel management courses.

"Transportation Indicators and Business Cycles" recognises the important role the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation and develops indicators for this sector to identify its current state, and predict its future. The reference cycle is defined, including business and growth cycles, for this sector over the period from 1979 using both the conventional National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) method and modern time series models. A one-to-one correspondence between cycles in the transportation sector and those in the aggregate economy is found. It also constructs an index of leading indicators for the transportation sector using rigorous statistical procedures, and performs well as a forecasting tool.

El Manual de Pruebas y Criterios contiene los criterios, metodos y procedimientos de prueba que se deben utilizar para la clasificacion de mercancias peligrosas de acuerdo con las disposiciones de las partes 2 y 3 de las Recomendaciones de las Naciones Unidas para el Transporte de Mercancias Peligrosas, Reglamentacion Modelo y para la clasificacion de los productos quimicos que presentan peligros fisicos conforme a lo dispuesto en el Sistema Globalmente Armonizado de Clasificacion y Etiquetado de productos quimicos (SGA). Por tanto, el Manual complementa los reglamentos nacionales e internacionales desarrollados a partir de la Reglamentacion Modelo o del SGA. Desde su primera version, elaborada y posteriormente adoptada por el Comite de Expertos en Transporte de Mercancias Peligrosas del Consejo Economico y Social de las Naciones Unidas (ECOSOC) en 1984, el Manual se ha ido modificando y actualizando cada dos anos. Dicha actualizacion se lleva a cabo bajo los auspicios del Comite de Expertos en Transporte de Mercancias Peligrosas y del Sistema Globalmente Armonizado de clasificacion y etiquetado de productos quimicos, que reemplaza al comite original desde el ano 2001. La sexta edicion revisada, que se publico en 2015, tiene en cuenta las recomendaciones adoptadas por el comite de expertos en su quinto y sexto periodo de sesiones que se celebraron en 2010 y 2012 (publicadas con el simbolo ST/SG/AC.10/11/Rev.5/Amend.2 y ST/SG/AC.10/11/Rev.4/Amend.2) asi como las adoptadas durante su septimo periodo de sesiones, que se celebro en 2014 (ST/SG/AC.10/42/Add.2). Las enmiendas contenidas en la presente publicacion fueron adoptadas por el Comite durante su octavo periodo de sesiones (9 de Diciembre de 2016).

Thematische Erlebnis- und Konsumwelten erleben seit einigen Jahren in Deutschland einen ausserordentlichen Boom: Ferienparks und Themenhotels, Urban Entertainment Center und Brand Lands, Freizeitparks und Infotainment Center weisen grosse Besucherzahlen und hohe Wiederholerraten auf. Die aktuelle Krise mehrerer Musical-Produktionen und Themenrestaurant-Ketten macht zugleich deutlich, dass der Markt der Mixed-Use-Center durch eine grosse Dynamik gekennzeichnet wird. Als zentrale Steuerfaktoren erweisen sich dabei rasche Veranderungen im Konsumentenverhalten und eine wachsende Konkurrenz durch neue Wettbewerber. In der Offentlichkeit generell wie speziell auch in der Tourismusbranche besteht ein erhebliches Informationsdefizit uber Erlebnis- und Konsumwelten. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es das zentrale Ziel des Werkes, eine umfassende und grundliche Information uber die Marktsituation, das Marketing-Management und die Erfolgsfaktoren von Erlebnis- und Konsumwelten zu vermitteln."

Hochaktuelle Fragestellung nicht nur in der Hotellerie: Wie entsteht und wie sichert man die Kundenzufriedenheit mit dem Ziel der nachhaltigen Kundenbindung? Das Werk beantwortet diese Frage. Aus dem Inhalt: Beherbergungsbetriebe als Dienstleistungsunternehmen. Kundenzufriedenheit. Dienstleistungsqualitat. Messung von Kundenzufriedenheit und Dienstleistungsqualitat. Checklisten. Beschwerdemanagement. Von der Kundenzufriedenheit zur Kundenbindung."

An easily accessible guide to scientific information, Hazardous Chemicals: Safety Management and Global Regulations covers proper management, precautions, and related global regulations on the safety management of chemical substances. The book helps workers and safety personnel prevent and minimize the consequences of catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive chemical substances, which often result in toxic or explosive hazards. It also details safety measures for transportation of chemical substances by different routes, such as by road, rail, air, and sea. Discusses different aspects of potentially toxic and hazardous chemicals in simple and comprehensive language Provides toxicity and health effects of chemicals in simple, nontechnical language Covers scientific information on hazardous and potentially dangerous chemical substances at workplaces Offers fundamental knowledge about the biological and health effects of hazardous and potentially toxic chemicals in a comprehensive way Includes recent developments on safety management of hazardous and potentially toxic chemicals and related global regulations The author discusses the importance of knowledge in avoiding negligence during the use and handling of hazardous chemical substances. He stresses the importance of proper management and judicious application of each chemical substance irrespective of the workplace and eventually shows how safety and protection of the user, workplace, and the living environment can be achieved.

In recent decades urban regions around the world have engaged in a new process of development based on the creation of new knowledge. Amidst the globalization of economic activities and the arrival of transformative technologies, knowledge has become the key driver of competitiveness and is profoundly reshaping the patterns of economic growth and activity. This book offers a comprehensive new model of the rise of a Knowledge Economy and its evolutionary development in the Megalopolis. These regions are developing new institutions and governance mechanisms to adapt, disseminate, and utilize available knowledge to promote continuing development of their Knowledge Economies. However, such developments are accompanied by increasing inequalities in incomes and in urban services. This book examines the resilience of some urban regions and their recent emergence as vibrant Knowledge Economies. It also reviews the recent renewal and growth in the Megalopolis-- stretching along the Atlantic Seaboard along the metropolitan areas of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC. This book will appeal to researchers and professionals interested in urban and regional development, and to business groups interested in economic development.

The performance of current transport systems is inadequate when viewed in terms of economic efficiency, sustainability and safety. Drawing together key an impressive list of contributors from the vast field of transportation economics including Kenneth Button, David Banister and Juan Carlos Martin, this book investigates transport systems, and covers a wide range of topics such as: airline markets congestion charging speed control. This informative book, ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, business and industrial studies examines the tools that are necessary to effectively measure transport systems and those that are required to improve them. Utilizing advanced tools of network analysis, the contributors challenge various pieces of conventional wisdom, in particular the view that intermodal transport is more environmentally benign than road transport.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Approximately 80 per cent of European and American citizens live in an urban environment. Due to their large populations and extensive commercial establishments, urban areas require large quantities of goods and services for commercial and domestic use. This results in increasing levels of demand for freight transport services. Freight transport in towns and cities is a major contributor to environmental impacts, particularly to local air pollution and noise. Urban Logistics addresses public policy makers, freight transport companies and receivers of supplies, providing them with the information and guidance to affect change in the logistics of the city. Urban Logistics is written by an outstanding team of international editors combining their expertise and using their research from leading business schools in Sweden and the US. There are also valuable contributions from academics and industry experts from companies and universities from all over the world. The book includes clear examples of initiatives that work and business case developments, as well as toolkits for policymakers and managers who are devising new initiatives. There is an in-depth examination of different aspects of urban logistics, such as retail logistics for cities, urban food supply chains, services and the special logistics requirements involved, construction, waste management and e-commerce and home delivery. There is also a focus on networks and partnerships and an analysis of innovation as a new constant.

Mit dem ausserordentlich starken Wachstum des Tourismus weltweit hat sich auch eine Erscheinungsvielfalt entwickelt, die mit Schwierigkeit zu uberschauen ist. Andererseits hat sich mit zahlreichen neuen Destinationen auch der Wettbewerb auf dem Tourismusmarkt verstarkt. Um erfolgreich im Markt zu bestehen, ist eine Segmentierung der Zielgruppen vorzunehmen, welche die Grundlage jeglichen Tourismusmarketing sein sollte. Mit dem Werk wird diesem Umstand Rechnung getragen, zumal die behandelten Tourismustypen fur den Anbieter touristischer Leistungen ein interessantes Gastepotential eroffnet."

Dieses Handbuch beinhaltet 73 Beitrage von 76 Autorinnen und Autoren die versuchen das gesamte Feld der Freizeit- und Tourismusgeographie moglichst vollstandig abzudecken. Es richtet sich an die Studierenden der Universitaten und Fachhochschulen sowie an die Praktikerinnen und Praktiker in der Tourismusbranche.

A beautiful treasury of railway memorabilia Journey back to the 1950s and '60s with this nostalgic look at Britain's railways in their glory days. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a unique collection of photographs, train spotting notebooks and railway ephemera. Packed with hundreds of photographs, trainspotting notebooks and ephemera. This is a vivid recollection of the whole atmosphere of the railways as the age of steam ended and diesels were introduced. Take a journey through each of the major regions, guided by bestselling author and railway expert, Julian Holland Revel in the imagery of the mighty steam engines as they ran their final schedules Savour some of the magic that trainspotters experienced during that glorious era