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As researchers in emerging economies, scientists are often the
first foreign visitors to stay in remote rural areas and, on
occasion, form joint venture ecotourism and community tourism
projects or poverty alleviation schemes between local agencies or
NGOs, the local community, and their home institution or agency.
They therefore can contribute to avenues for the conservation of
natural resources and the development of rural communities as well
as influencing the future tourism development through its perceived
legitimacy and the destination image it promotes. This book for the
first time critically reviews tourism debates surrounding this
emerging market of scientific and research oriented tourism. It is
divided into three inter-related sections. Section 1 sets the stage
of the discourse of scientific research in tourism; Section 2
evaluates the key players of scientific tourism looking
particularly at the roles of NGOs, government agencies and
university academic staff and Section 3 contains case studies
documenting the niche of researchers as travelers in a range of
geographical locations including Tanzania, Australia, Chile, Peru
and Mexico. The title's multidisciplinary approach provides an
informed, interesting and stimulating addition to the existing
limited literature and raises many issues and associated questions
including the role of science tourism in tourism development and
expansion, the impacts of scientific and research-based tourism,
travel behaviors and motivations of researchers to name but a few.
This significant volume will provide the reader with a better
understanding of scientists as travelers, their relationship to the
tourism industry, and the role they play in community development
around tourism sites. It will be valuable reading for students and
academics across the fields of Tourism, Geography and Development
Studies as well as other social science disciplines.
Cuba has experienced many social, economic, and political changes
since Raul Castro retained presidency of the island nation in 2008.
This comprehensive volume examines how Cuba has restructured some
of its core economic policies in order to tackle stagnation; these
include allowing for more legalized private enterprises, reducing
the number of State-employed workers, and fostering additional
outside investments. The authors explore the surge of
entrepreneurial activity in tourism among Cuban residents due to
these reforms, whether that be offering new tourism products or
expanding traditional ones. Though the current diplomatic climate
suggests continued uncertainty, the ripple effect of a potentially
thawing relationship between Cuba and the USA resulted in an
unexpected surge of international tourists wishing to experience
Cuba before it opened to the American travel market. This book
highlights the factors that are influencing, and in some cases
complicating, tourism planning and development in Cuba. The authors
explore a wide range of topics including tourism and land-use
policy, competitiveness, responsible practices, gender and ethical
advertising, the role of tour guides, emergence of casa
particulares, experiential learning and solidarity, and
authenticity through local art. This book will interest students,
researchers, politicians and investors with a focus on Cuba. It was
originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism
Planning & Development.
Cuba has experienced many social, economic, and political changes
since Raul Castro retained presidency of the island nation in 2008.
This comprehensive volume examines how Cuba has restructured some
of its core economic policies in order to tackle stagnation; these
include allowing for more legalized private enterprises, reducing
the number of State-employed workers, and fostering additional
outside investments. The authors explore the surge of
entrepreneurial activity in tourism among Cuban residents due to
these reforms, whether that be offering new tourism products or
expanding traditional ones. Though the current diplomatic climate
suggests continued uncertainty, the ripple effect of a potentially
thawing relationship between Cuba and the USA resulted in an
unexpected surge of international tourists wishing to experience
Cuba before it opened to the American travel market. This book
highlights the factors that are influencing, and in some cases
complicating, tourism planning and development in Cuba. The authors
explore a wide range of topics including tourism and land-use
policy, competitiveness, responsible practices, gender and ethical
advertising, the role of tour guides, emergence of casa
particulares, experiential learning and solidarity, and
authenticity through local art. This book will interest students,
researchers, politicians and investors with a focus on Cuba. It was
originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism
Planning & Development.
This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a
source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range
of ethical issues associated with the production and consumption of
animal foods, highlighting the different ways in which animals are
valued and utilised within different cultural and economic
contexts. This book brings together food studies of animals with
tourism and ethics, forming an important contribution to the wider
conversation of human-animal studies.
As researchers in emerging economies, scientists are often the
first foreign visitors to stay in remote rural areas and, on
occasion, form joint venture ecotourism and community tourism
projects or poverty alleviation schemes between local agencies or
NGOs, the local community, and their home institution or agency.
They therefore can contribute to avenues for the conservation of
natural resources and the development of rural communities as well
as influencing the future tourism development through its perceived
legitimacy and the destination image it promotes. This book for the
first time critically reviews tourism debates surrounding this
emerging market of scientific and research oriented tourism. It is
divided into three inter-related sections. Section 1 sets the stage
of the discourse of scientific research in tourism; Section 2
evaluates the key players of scientific tourism looking
particularly at the roles of NGOs, government agencies and
university academic staff and Section 3 contains case studies
documenting the niche of researchers as travelers in a range of
geographical locations including Tanzania, Australia, Chile, Peru
and Mexico. The title's multidisciplinary approach provides an
informed, interesting and stimulating addition to the existing
limited literature and raises many issues and associated questions
including the role of science tourism in tourism development and
expansion, the impacts of scientific and research-based tourism,
travel behaviors and motivations of researchers to name but a few.
This significant volume will provide the reader with a better
understanding of scientists as travelers, their relationship to the
tourism industry, and the role they play in community development
around tourism sites. It will be valuable reading for students and
academics across the fields of Tourism, Geography and Development
Studies as well as other social science disciplines.
Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a
motivator of travel. Regardless of whether tourists travel with a
primary motivation for experiencing local food, eating is required
during their trip. This book encompasses an interdisciplinary
discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of
tourism. Themes include the raising, harvesting, and processing of
farm animals for food; considerations in marketing animals as food;
and the link between consuming animals and current environmental
concerns. Ethical issues are addressed in social, economic,
environmental, and political terms. The chapters are grounded in
ethics-related theories and frameworks including critical theory,
ecofeminism, gustatory ethics, environmental ethics, ethics within
a political economy context, cultural relativism, market
construction paradigm, ethical resistance, and the Global
Sustainable Tourism Criteria. Several chapters explore
contradicting and paradoxical ethical perspectives, whether those
contradictions exist between government and private sector, between
tourism and other industries, or whether they lie within ourselves.
Like the authors in Tourism Experiences & Animal Consumption:
Contested Values, Morality, & Ethics, the authors in this book
wrestle with a range of issues such as animal sentience, the
environmental consequences of animals as food, viewing animals
solely as a extractive resource for human will, as well as the
artificial cultural distortion of animals as food for tourism
marketing purposes. This book will appeal to tourism academics and
graduate students as a reference for their own research or as
supplementary material for courses focused on ethics within
tourism.
This two-volume set examines the strong connection between craft
beverages and tourism, presenting cutting-edge research in
partnership with breweries, distilleries, and cideries. While wine,
food, and culinary tourism have traditionally dominated destination
markets, interest in craft beverages has gained momentum across the
US and overseas with local markets quickly recognizing the growing
craft beverage movement. Through the eyes of tourism scholars,
brewers, and travelers, these two volumes explore the landscape of
craft beer opportunities in non-traditional settings, and recognize
the potential for future economic, socio-cultural, and
environmental sustainability. Craft Beverages and Tourism, Volume
1: The Rise of Breweries and Distilleries in the United States is
an inclusive and overarching examination of the US craft beverage
phenomenon within a larger context of international beverage
tourism. It outlines the current practice and research scope of
craft beer, cider, and spirits as well as the sustainable
development of destinations revolving around craft beverage.
Through literature reviews, case studies, and general exploration,
this volume advances marketing, hospitality, and leisure studies
research for academics, industry experts, and emerging
entrepreneurs.
This volume applies a mix of qualitative and quantitative research
and case studies to analyze the role that the craft beverage
industry plays within society at large. It targets important themes
such as environmental conservation and social responsibility, as
well as the psychology of the craft beer drinker and their impact
on tourism marketing. This volume advances marketing, hospitality,
and leisure studies research for academics, industry experts, and
emerging entrepreneurs.
This two-volume set examines the strong connection between craft
beverages and tourism, presenting cutting-edge research in
partnership with breweries, distilleries, and cideries. While wine,
food, and culinary tourism have traditionally dominated destination
markets, interest in craft beverages has gained momentum across the
US and overseas with local markets quickly recognizing the growing
craft beverage movement. Through the eyes of tourism scholars,
brewers, and travelers, these two volumes explore the landscape of
craft beer opportunities in non-traditional settings, and recognize
the potential for future economic, socio-cultural, and
environmental sustainability. Craft Beverages and Tourism, Volume
1: The Rise of Breweries and Distilleries in the United States is
an inclusive and overarching examination of the US craft beverage
phenomenon within a larger context of international beverage
tourism. It outlines the current practice and research scope of
craft beer, cider, and spirits as well as the sustainable
development of destinations revolving around craft beverage.
Through literature reviews, case studies, and general exploration,
this volume advances marketing, hospitality, and leisure studies
research for academics, industry experts, and emerging
entrepreneurs.
Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a
motivator of travel. Regardless of whether tourists travel with a
primary motivation for experiencing local food, eating is required
during their trip. This book encompasses an interdisciplinary
discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of
tourism. Themes include the raising, harvesting, and processing of
farm animals for food; considerations in marketing animals as food;
and the link between consuming animals and current environmental
concerns. Ethical issues are addressed in social, economic,
environmental, and political terms. The chapters are grounded in
ethics-related theories and frameworks including critical theory,
ecofeminism, gustatory ethics, environmental ethics, ethics within
a political economy context, cultural relativism, market
construction paradigm, ethical resistance, and the Global
Sustainable Tourism Criteria. Several chapters explore
contradicting and paradoxical ethical perspectives, whether those
contradictions exist between government and private sector, between
tourism and other industries, or whether they lie within ourselves.
Like the authors in Tourism Experiences & Animal Consumption:
Contested Values, Morality, & Ethics, the authors in this book
wrestle with a range of issues such as animal sentience, the
environmental consequences of animals as food, viewing animals
solely as a extractive resource for human will, as well as the
artificial cultural distortion of animals as food for tourism
marketing purposes. This book will appeal to tourism academics and
graduate students as a reference for their own research or as
supplementary material for courses focused on ethics within
tourism.
Destinations rely on regional strategies to support and enhance the
tourism product through regional partnerships and integration.
Integrated tourism is defined as tourism that is explicitly linked
to the economic, social, cultural, natural and human structures of
the region in which it occurs. Integrated tourism has evolved to
include numerous meanings and definitions, but generally includes a
vertical business or industry approach. The first of its kind, this
book applies a more inclusive approach to integration by providing
insight into inclusive regional development strategies that support
both the needs of urban and rural areas whilst enhancing the
tourist experience, supporting the positive impacts of tourism and
mitigating the negative. Regional studies tend to portray either an
urban or rural focus without acknowledging that often these spaces
constitute joint governance structures, similar historical and
cultural roots, and economic dependencies. Sustainable tourism
promotes sourcing locally, such as using rural agricultural
products in urban tourism experiences. Furthermore, innovative
rural marketing strategies linking tourism heritage, attractions,
food and drink trails, and artisans with urban visitors are
emerging. Including theoretical and applied research and
international case studies, this will be a valuable resource to
academics, students and practitioners working in tourism
development and regional policy.
This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a
source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range
of ethical issues associated with the production and consumption of
animal foods, highlighting the different ways in which animals are
valued and utilised within different cultural and economic
contexts. This book brings together food studies of animals with
tourism and ethics, forming an important contribution to the wider
conversation of human-animal studies.
From playful and hilarious accounts of life with cats to
heartwarming tales of cat courage, healing and learning, each
touching story in Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul celebrates
the special bond we share with our cats.
The basis for this story is two-fold. First, it is imperative to
bring to light a desperate need for rehabilitation facilities that
will more efficiently serve today's men and women veterans who are
wounded and/or disabled. Second, an example of precisely why such a
need has become imperative is based on a true story of an Air Force
nurse who, if she could speak, would likely tell you in great
detail why proper housing and more individualized care for today's
veterans is sorely needed. People ask every day, by phone or in
person, by text or email, how our daughter is doing. With every
inquiry, I have to take a moment to reflect before giving an
answer. There is always that small voice, that pause, the lump in
my throat: how is she doing... really? Knowing each day will quite
possibly see her make very small steps of increased productivity in
learning to speak or to walk, to brush her teeth, to pick out the
clothes for that day then work as hard as she can to get an arm in
a sleeve, to learn to eat so that one day she won't be fed through
a tube, and to be helped from the bed to her wheelchair. I swallow
that insistent lump and realize she has made tremendous strides
moment by moment, day by day. I thank God with every part of my
being, every single minute of every single day that she is here at
all. And then I thank Him that her mind is fully restored
cognitively. To hear her speak again would be nothing short of a
miracle. When I hear her laugh at a funny story or during a comedy
film, to feel her hugs and the little pat on my back that says, "I
love you" so fills my heart with infinite joy And, so, when people
ask, I reflect. Knowing what she has been through - the depths of
pain and suffering, the horror of not being able to defend herself
when left alone, not even so much as to make a call for help - I
reflect. The dream of being a wife and mother again is almost
non-existent now, but it is still her hope. That crisp Air Force
uniform she wore with such pride still gives her joy and so boosts
her self-esteem when we dress her in it to attend an appropriate
function. Happiness lights up her face Her pride is clearly
evident. In that instant when people ask, I reflect because I know
where she has come from and all that she has endured, I realize
that in all the tomorrows she must continue to push on day by day
by day, and it simply tears the heart out of me. Watching her smile
and hearing her laugh gives us the greatest hope of all, even as we
know that light at the end of the tunnel is still very far away.
When people ask "how is your daughter doing," I reflect, and then I
smile and say, "She is awesome "
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