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Planning a fabulous staycation in the UK? This stylish and
inspiring book contains all the information campers need to make
the most of the wonderful waterside locations throughout the UK and
Ireland. Covering all kinds of camping (caravan, campsite and
wild), the book starts by showing how to plan your trip, what gear
to take and how to get stuck into all the fantastic water-based
activities on offer, such as sailing, kayaking, angling, surfing
and wild swimming. Tip boxes, top 10 features and gorgeous photos
combine to give readers all the knowledge and inspiration they need
to get out there, whether they're on their own, part of a family or
with a group of friends. The main part of the guide is organised by
region, but also searchable by activity. Each region has an
overview, and within it the best sites to visit, with useful
information (best times of year to go, activities on offer,
facilities, cost), advice on most attractive pitches, contact
details and photos. There is a huge variety of sites here, all with
something unique to offer, and helpful maps plot each one clearly.
With a Foreword by One Man and his Campervan's Martin Dorey, this
is the essential guidebook for all campers, showing how it really
is possible to pitch up in paradise. This 2nd edition is thoroughly
updated throughout, featuring new campsites and photography.
The world-famous Grand Canyon is only one of Arizona's spectacular
natural features. Arizona encompasses over 90 wilderness areas,
more than 15 national parks and monuments, and the largest national
forest in the country. Expansive mesas, high peaks, and snaking
canyons create a dynamic landscape and reflect a rich geologic and
human history. Backpacking Arizona is the only guide devoted to
overnight trips in the state. You'll discover the maze of side
canyons and hidden grottos in the Grand Canyon's untrammeled
backcountry, historic pioneer trails on the Mogollon Rim, the
little-traveled Blue Range, and the legendary Superstition
Mountains in the Sonoran Desert.
The classic guide to Montana's gorgeous campgrounds, now completely
updated and revised! Camping Montana details nearly 300 public
campgrounds accessible by vehicle--from Kalispell to Miles City and
everywhere in between. Outdoor enthusiasts are sure to find the
perfect spot in which to kick back and enjoy the sights, smells,
and sounds of Montana.
Over the last decade, human resource management has come to be viewed as the dominant paradigm within which analyses of the world of work have been located. This volume examines the nature and assesses the impact of HRM within a highly under-researched division of the service sector, namely the UK hotel industry. Common perceptions of management practices in the hotel industry typically include work intensification, high labour turnover, lack of training and poor career prospects, and casualised terms and conditions of employment. Using data from a survey of over 200 hotels, this book challenges such stereotypes by demonstrating that this part of the service sector is just as likely to have experimented with new approaches to HRM as the manufacturing industry. It suggests that primary influences on managerial decision-making in the hotel industry are no different from the primary influences affecting decision-making elsewhere, countering the argument that mainstream management theories are inapplicable within the hotel industry. Furthermore, where hotels emphasise the importance of service quality enhancement and where they introduce HRM as an integrated, mutually supporting package of practices, a strong relationship between HRM and organisational performance is proposed. eBook available with sample pages: 0203020863
With Rick Steves, Naples and the Amalfi Coast are yours to
discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Italy
includes: *Rick's firsthand, up-to-date advice on the Amalfi
Coast's best sights, restaurants, hotels, and more, plus tips to
beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps *Top
sights and local experiences: See ancient art at Naples'
Archaeological Museum or travel back in time at the Pompeii Forum.
Relax on the beach in Positano, go for a cliffside stroll along the
coast, or feast on pizza where the dish was first created *Helpful
maps and self-guided walking tours to keep you on trackWith
selective coverage and Rick's trusted insight into the best things
to do and see, Rick Steves Snapshot Naples & the Amalfi Coast
is truly a tour guide in your pocket.Exploring beyond the Amalfi
Coast? Pick up Rick Steves Italy for comprehensive coverage,
detailed itineraries, and essential information for planning a
countrywide trip.
This handbook seeks to provide practical, realistic suggestions
about how quality can be measured, maintained and improved in
institutions. It is addressed to a cross-section of staff who make
up colleges and universities, not just those responsible for
quality audit.
The Best in Tent Camping: New England is a guidebook for tent
campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the
perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on
a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another
camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a
convoy of RVs. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of campgrounds,
this book guides you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure,
and best-managed campgrounds in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Each campground
profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations,
fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map
making the campground a snap to locate. Rich with history, natural
beauty, and environmental diversity, New England offers campers a
new experience at every turn. From the tidal marsh of Long Island
Sound, to Vermont's world-famous forests, to the rocky shores of
Maine, New England camping has never been better.
Nothing is more rewarding than taking the family on a camping trip,
spending quality time together and enjoying the wonders of mother
nature. This handy guide will assist you in choosing your
destination, be it a star-rated beach resort or a remote bush camp.
Sites are listed by province, with colour-coding for easy
reference. Each entry contains a brief description of the site, the
type of resort, the price range, and symbols showing the facilities
available, as well as the tourism grading council rating, where
applicable. Full contact details and GPS co-ordinates are supplied.
Quickfinder listing over 600 caravan and camping sites; Icons
indicating price range, facilities and amenities; Toll road and
distance information; Detailed provincial and area maps; Useful
camping checklist and emergency numbers.
Discover a place where the rugged and the cosmopolitan blend
seamlessly. Inside Moon Victoria & Vancouver Island you'll
find: * Flexible, strategic itineraries, from a long weekend
camping with the family to two weeks exploring the best of
Vancouver Island * Unique outdoor experiences: Hike along the rocky
coast, stand-up paddleboard through protected fjords, and
experience the thrill of hooking a giant salmon * The best local
flavor: Feast on seafood fresh from the ocean in downtown Victoria
and admire the city's timeless architecture. Wander the colorful
Butchart Gardens or learn about the region's natural history at the
Royal BC Museum * Honest advice on when to go, where to stay, and
how to get around from expert writer Andrew Hempstead * Full-color
photos and detailed maps throughout * Thorough background on the
culture and history, wildlife, and geography Find your adventure
with Moon Victoria & Vancouver Island. Hitting the road? Check
out Moon U.S. & Canadian Rocky Mountains Road Trip. Craving
more of Canada's wilderness? Try Moon Canadian Rockies. About Moon
Travel Guides: Moon was founded in 1973 to empower independent,
active, and conscious travel. We prioritize local businesses,
outdoor recreation, and traveling strategically and sustainably.
Moon Travel Guides are written by local, expert authors with great
stories to tell-and they can't wait to share their favorite places
with you. For more inspiration, follow @moonguides on social media.
Afternoon tea is more than a meal--it's a moment, an aesthetic, a
pose. Afternoon Tea Is the New Happy Hour features more than 75
recipes to make your tea time memorable. Inside you'll find
easy-to-follow recipes to create tea sandwiches, scones, breads,
cakes, dips, and, of course--tea. Whether you're throwing a vintage
tea party or looking for high tea food ideas, there's something for
everyone. Bestselling author Gail Greco also shares cooking and
serving tea tips, tea etiquette, insight on the differences between
using tea bags, a tea kettle, and loose leaves, and the lingo used
by tea connoisseurs. Gail includes her own food photography which
showcases the happy hour crowd pleasers. In this cookbook, you'll
find: Plenty of tea time favorites, like Apple Hibiscus Tea, Tea
Toddy One-Shot, Alice's Sorbet Float Tea, and Basic Barista Tea
Latte with Rooibos. For appetizers Gail shares Cheddar Ranch Crab
Dip, Spicey Baked Artichoke Bruschetta, Pizza Cupcakes, and Mini
Soft Baked Pretzels. If you're craving sandwiches, you'll find
Pimento Pita Pocket Poufs and Food Truck Zone Shrimp/Corn ' Wiches.
And to keep everyone excited, you'll find Tea-Thyme Ginger Bars,
Glazed Lemon Loaf Cake, Teasicles, Potato Chip Walnut Tartlets, and
Puddle-of-Chocolate and Chai Pots de Creme. There's something for
everyone! This beautiful cookbook will provide you with the high
tea food ideas you can't find anywhere else. Afternoon Tea Is the
New Happy Hour is a wildly creative mix of vintage and modern.
Pinkies up, it's tea time!
Hospitality Marketing is a no-nonsense, practical book which has
been revised and adapted for a wider market, including European and
international examples. It shifts the major emphasis of hospitality
marketing onto building a business from the inside by word-of-mouth
rather than relying mostly on the endeavours of outside promotion.
Hospitality marketers are encouraged to build a customer base by
constantly improving the customer's experiences at the point of
sale. Hospitality Marketing aims to help you direct your decisions
concerning marketing strategies towards what happens to and for the
customers.
This fully updated and revised guide to over 450 public campgrounds
in Southern California is perfect for tent and RV campers alike.
Within each campground listing is vital information on location,
road conditions, fees, reservations, available facilities, and
recreational activities. The listings are organized by geographic
area, and thorough site maps will simplify the search for the
perfect campground. Southern California offers a surprising array
of quiet, out-of-the-way parks replete with lakes, rivers, rugged
hills, and even rocky cliffs. Camping Southern California provides
useful tips on camping etiquette and enjoying-or avoiding-the
region's diverse and abundant wildlife. Look inside for: *
Campground locations * Facilities and hookups * Fees and
reservations * GPS coordinates for each campground * Recreational
activities * What equipment and clothing to bring
From the Allegheny Highlands to the Feudin' Country of the
Hatfields and McCoys, camping in West Virginia has never been
better. Best Tent Camping: West Virginia, now in its third edition,
is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene
campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought
of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the
blare of another camper's boombox, or waking up to find your tent
surrounded by a convoy of RVs. In Best Tent Camping: West Virginia,
outdoor adventurer Johnny Molloy guides readers to the quietest,
most beautiful, most secure, and best-managed campgrounds in the
Mountain State. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of
campgrounds, each campsite is rated for beauty, noise, privacy,
security, spaciousness, and cleanliness. Each campground profile
gives unbiased and thorough evaluations, taking the guess work out
of finding the perfect site.
Based on the UK accommodation website Cool Places, this guide
features the very best places to stay in Britain with your dog -
everything from boutique hotels and cosy gastropubs to seaside
B&Bs, country cottages and the latest glamping sites. Compiled
by Rough Guides founder Martin Dunford and the Cool Places team of
regional experts, each featured place has an incisive first-hand
review and all the information you need; uniquely also includes all
the best dog-friendly stuff to do nearby: local pubs, great walks,
fun activities. It's also illustrated with hundreds of colour
pictures that not only showcase the best of the British countryside
and its accommodation, but the best of Britain's dogs too! So
whether you're after a country cottage, a luxury hotel or just a
cosy pub with rooms, put yourself in the trusted hands of Cool
Places and find your perfect UK dog-friendly place to stay.
Best Tent Camping: Virginia by Randy Porter takes outdoor
enthusiasts to the most beautiful, yet lesser known, of the state's
campsites, guaranteeing a peaceful retreat. Each entry provides the
latest maps of the grounds and alerts readers to the best sites
within the facility to ensure a rewarding and relaxing visit.
Campsite ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, quietness,
security, and cleanliness help campers pick the perfect campground
for any trip. In addition, each site entry has complete contact and
registration information, operating hours, and a list of
restrictions. Directions to the site come complete with GPS
coordinates to put travelers right at the main gate. For beginning
adventurers and seasoned veterans alike, Best Tent Camping:
Virginia makes any trip more gratifying and is the key to enjoying
the great natural beauty of the Virginia landscape.
Designed for all students of hospitality and tourism management, the second edition of this best selling text gives a modern approach to front office operations and management using realistic scenarios set in the hotel environment
Key features of this essential text:
· user-friendly style of writing and accessible page layout enables students to use it as a reference book as well as a textbook
· updated in the light of recent developments such as global distribution systems and the internet
· greater focus on increasing yield and expansion of vital management aspects such as staffing and equipment
· additional extended, practical exercise material.
Front Office reflects the importance of different features of the receptionist's work and is divided into four main sections:
· Procedural aspects
· Dealing with people
· Increasing yield
· Management aspects
Front Office is ideal for GNVQ
BTEC students, those taking the professional exams of the HCIMA, and for undergraduates and postgraduates studying hospitality and tourism management and all relevant executive courses.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Procedural aspects - Advance bookings; Check-in and related issues; Guest accounting; Dealing with people - Security - Hospitality; Social skills; Increasing Yield - sales; Marketing aspects; Yield management; Groups; management aspects - Tariffs, Control; Staffing; Equipment; Index.
Beyond the bright lights of one of the city's fastest growing
metropolitan areas is some of the most rugged, beautiful, and
remote country around. Popular destinations such as Red Rock
Canyon, Valley of Fire, Death Valley, and Mt. Charles are covered,
plus lesser-known areas such as Anniversary Narrows, Arrow Canyon,
Bowl of Fire, and the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness. Each trip
showcases the diversity of this region, from the geological wonders
and rare life forms surviving in Mojave National Preserve to
ancient petroglyphs. The hikes range from easy strolls to
challenging treks and include distance, time, elevation change,
difficulty, and trail-use notes. A custom map accompanies every
description, and GPS waypoints are given for key locations.
Hotels continue to appeal to the imagination. The sector re-invents
itself time and time again and sets the limits for the ultimate
overnight stay. But which hotels offer you a once in a lifetime
experience? This book lists the ultimate top 150 hotels, compiled
by travel and lifestyle journalist Debbie Pappyn. All hotels
guarantee a unique experience: a unique view or location, the
incredible luxury or inimitable charm, the sophisticated design,
the service or simply manta rays and sea turtles swimming under
your bed... Debbie Pappyn visited more than 1000 hotels. She draws
from her own experience, adds her ultimate wish list and gives you
the reason why you have to stay there. This is the ultimate 'bucket
list hotel guide' and the sequel to the successful 150 Bars You
Need to Visit before You Die, ISBN 9789401449120, and 150
Restaurants You Need to Visit Before You Die, ISBN 9789401454421.
Descriptions for nearly 500 routes, selected from the more than
5,000 established climbs in the Southern California area.
Best Easy Day Hikes Hawaii: Kauai includes detailed maps and
concise descriptions for nineteen easy-to-follow hikes on the
Garden Island of Kauai. These easy hikes will please all skill
levels, from children to mountaineers. Discover a stunning
landscape of deep valleys dripping with mist, pools fed by
waterfalls, and views of some of the world's most beautiful canyons
and shorelines. Look inside for: * Twenty-minute strolls to
four-hour adventures * Hikes for everyone, including families *
Mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps * Hawaiian language
essentials * GPS coordinates
Go beyond the ordinary with this remarkable travelogue, guidebook,
and coffee table keepsake filled with spectacular color photography
that showcases Iceland's stunning beauty and hidden gems, from its
fjords and highlands to the Western Islands and the capital
Reykjavik-the first entry in the Hedonist's Guide travel series.
Combining essential insider details, cultural information, must-see
attractions, and detailed maps with glorious custom photography,
Stunning Iceland is the ultimate handbook for modern nomads,
including both savvy travelers and novice tourists. Designed for
twenty-first century globetrotters, Stunning Iceland features
stylish graphics and an elegant visual design, as well as a
breakdown of must-visit places, thematic double-page photographic
spreads to help you discover and understand the city, and walking
routes to explore each district away from the crowds. Whether you
prefer a more traditional visit or want to chart your own unique
course, this user-friendly handbook includes everything you
need-and more: Discover the charm of a luxury ecolodge surrounded
by nature Meet the surfers of the Arctic Taste the new Nordic
gastronomy Follow in the footsteps of the heroes of the Icelandic
sagas Meet the polar fox and the blue whale Bathe in the natural
hot springs Admire the Icelandic flora Learn about the battle
between the tectonic plates beneath Iceland and its active
volcanoes Experience Reykjavik, the nation's beating heart Stunning
Iceland offers inspiration and insight for armchair travelers and
dreamers alike. Best of all, the gorgeous photography transforms
the book into a keepsake that will transport you back to your
favorite places and sights long after returning home. Experience
Iceland as never before with the Hedonist's Guide!
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