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The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Research is a compendium of some
of the most relevant issues affecting tourism development today.
The topics addressed in this book provide some new thinking for
those involved in tourism research. This book takes the reader from
the beginnings of tourism research to a discussion of emerging
forms of tourism and selected examples of tourism development. The
underlying theoretical dimensions are reviewed, analysed and
discussed from a number of perspectives. This book brings together
leading researchers, many of whom are members of the International
Academy for the Study of Tourism, to discuss tourism today and its
future. The works included in this volume are diverse, in terms of
geographical context, research methodology, root discipline, and
perspective. This book represents studies based in Europe, North
America, Oceania, and Asia. Research methodologies include both
quantitative and qualitative. Both macro and micro issues are
discussed from the economic, psychological, sociological, political
science, marketing, and other perspectives, which reflect the
interdisciplinary nature of tourism studies. This book is divided
into 6 sections. Section 1 considers the foundations for tourism
research. Section 2 discusses the implications for destination
management and section 3 discusses planning for tourism
development. Section 4 covers human capital for tourism
development. And finally, section 5 evaluates emerging forms of
tourism and then section 6 offers insights into tourism evolution.
It offers the reader a comprehensive synthesis of this field,
conveying the latest thinking and research. The text will provide
an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in tourism
research. This is essential reading for students, researchers &
academics of Tourism as well as those of related studies in
particular Leisure, Hospitality & Development Studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Research is a compendium of some
of the most relevant issues affecting tourism development today.
The topics addressed in this book provide some new thinking for
those involved in tourism research. This book takes the reader from
the beginnings of tourism research to a discussion of emerging
forms of tourism and selected examples of tourism development. The
underlying theoretical dimensions are reviewed, analysed and
discussed from a number of perspectives. This book brings together
leading researchers, many of whom are members of the International
Academy for the Study of Tourism, to discuss tourism today and its
future. The works included in this volume are diverse, in terms of
geographical context, research methodology, root discipline, and
perspective. This book represents studies based in Europe, North
America, Oceania, and Asia. Research methodologies include both
quantitative and qualitative. Both macro and micro issues are
discussed from the economic, psychological, sociological, political
science, marketing, and other perspectives, which reflect the
interdisciplinary nature of tourism studies. This book is divided
into 6 sections. Section 1 considers the foundations for tourism
research. Section 2 discusses the implications for destination
management and section 3 discusses planning for tourism
development. Section 4 covers human capital for tourism
development. And finally, section 5 evaluates emerging forms of
tourism and then section 6 offers insights into tourism evolution.
It offers the reader a comprehensive synthesis of this field,
conveying the latest thinking and research. The text will provide
an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in tourism
research. This is essential reading for students, researchers &
academics of Tourism as well as those of related studies in
particular Leisure, Hospitality & Development Studies.
Academic studies have predominantly treated destination branding as
a marketing phenomenon that happens to involve tourists as
customers in a marketplace. "Tourism Branding: Communities in
Action", the first volume in a new and exciting book series,
considers a traditional marketing subject from multidisciplinary
perspectives. Refreshingly this book attempts to free branding
research and practice in tourism fields from the shackles of
marketing that are dominated by the conventional approach of
product, price, place, and promotion. Considering tourism branding
as a community affair, this collection is distinguished from other
publications by adopting a global and more multidisciplinary
approach, and brings the subject of tourism branding outside of the
conventional domains of marketing and destination. Special
attention is given to the role and expectations of main tourism
stakeholders, particularly residents, business, and government in
the hosting community. Built on theoretical foundations with both
empirical findings and practical cases, this book brings together
different perspectives and offers an intellectual and open dialogue
among academics and practitioners of the field.
This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed
papers from the 2022 6th International Conference on Applied
Economics and Business (ICAEB), which was held in Stockholm,
Sweden, during August 24-26, 2022. ICAEB serves as a platform for
presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of
applied economics and business. Applied economics is used to
improve the quality of practice in business and public policy by
thinking meticulously about new ways to approach old problems.
Presentations at the conference include the topical areas of
development, ecological, financial, forensic, information,
institutional, international, labor, managerial, mathematical,
monetary, and other related economic aspects. All these
topics relate to an overall theme of sustainable development from
an economic perspective. The conference brings together scientists
from different fields of applied economic research in order to
exchange ideas and experiences leading to improved methods of
economic analysis.Â
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical,
state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management,
written by leading international thinkers and academics in the
field. With a strong focus on applications of theories and concepts
to tourism, the chapters in this volume are framed as critical
synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and
debates, and emerging trends and future considerations for the
field. Part One: Approaching Tourism Part Two: Destination
Applications Part Three: Marketing Applications Part Four: Tourism
Product Markets Part Five: Technological Applications Part Six:
Environmental Applications This handbook offers a fresh,
contemporary and definitive look at tourism management, making it
an essential resource for academics, researchers and students.
"This important Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics reports on the
Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), the most
comprehensive scientifically representative study to date of
nascent entrepreneurs. The book is unique because the study
identified individuals in the process of creating new businesses to
understand how, at its very source, people move from considering
the option of starting a new business to its actual founding. This
has never been done before in the history of entrepreneurship
research... I cannot recommend this book more strongly to
entrepreneurship scholars and those interested in where
entrepreneurs come from and how they move from their initial idea
to new venture founding." --Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, University of
California, Irvine "This Handbook makes a terrific contribution to
understanding entrepreneurship and new business creation. Its 38
chapters report major findings from the Panel Study of
Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), an unprecedented research program
involving more than a hundred researchers from 10 countries. This
Handbook is 'must reading' for anyone interested in
entrepreneurship research." --Andrew H. Van de Ven, Carlson School
of Management, University of Minnesota Entrepreneurial activity
provides profound positive benefits across an important set of
measures of social and economic well-being, much of it concentrated
in new economic sectors such as information technology. Yet, even
though entrepreneurship has been shown to provide many benefits, it
is surprising that there has not been a systematic study of the
entrepreneurial process. The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics:
The Process of Business Creation fills this gap by offering
theories, ideas, and measures that can be used to explore and
understand the factors that encompass and influence the creation of
new businesses. The chapters in the handbook provide the rationale
for questionnaires used in the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial
Dynamics (PSED). The PSED is a research program that was initiated
to provide systematic, reliable, and generalizable data on
important features of the new business creation process. The PSED
includes information on the proportion and characteristics of the
adult population involved in efforts to start businesses, the
activities and characteristics that comprise the nature of the
business start-up process, and the proportion and characteristics
of those business start-up efforts that actually become new
businesses. The handbook also describes the PSED data collection
process; provides documentation of the interview schedules,
codebooks, data preparation and weighting scheme; as well as offers
examples of how analyses of PSED data might be conducted. The
authors identify specific measures that can be used to
operationalize theory as well as provide evidence from the PSED
data sets on these measures' reliability and validity. The Handbook
of Entrepreneurial Dynamics is ideal for a sizeable audience,
including graduate students, academics, and librarians in schools
of business and management who need a comprehensive reference on
business creation. In addition, researchers and policy makers at
the federal, state, and local level will find this an invaluable
reference covering all of the factors involved in new venture
formation. Key Features: * Considers categories of data not
available prior to the PSED * Includes a comprehensive overview of
theories about new business formation * Provides demographics of
nascent entrepreneurs * Analyzes the cognitive characteristics of
nascent entrepreneurs * Explores all of the processes of new
business formation
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