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The Geotourism Industry in the 21st Century: The Origin, Principles, and Futuristic Approach

Apple Academic Press, 2020

Here is an engaging overview of the development of, definition of, and approach to modern geotourism, a growing movement to help sustain and showcase the distinctive geographical characteristics of many places around the world. This volume provides a clear conceptual framework with illustrative examples from all corners of the world...

Management and Marketing of Wine Tourism Business: Theory, Practice, and Cases

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book links research in wine marketing/management and wine tourism, offering international and multidisciplinary perspectives. Addressing the evolving nature of the wine tourism industry and market, the book brings in new research streams and technology advances such as; social media, customer empowerment and engagement,...

Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Readers seeking management careers in hospitality will enter a dynamic industry filled with opportunities. The rewards are many, but so are the challenges. Today's hospitality managers must deal with such complex factors as globalization, terrorism threats, ecotourism, internet commerce, new business and financial models, and rapidly...

The Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People (2 Volume Set)

Grey House Publishing, 2008

The Encyclopedia of Rural America is dedicated to the land and its people. Rural America is characterized by its vast expansiveness and its diversity. Of the nation's 1.9 billion acres, 1.8 billion acres are in rural areas or federal lands. It is a land of crop and pasture land, forests and wetlands, mountains and deserts, sea coasts and inland...

Transformation of Sydney’s Industrial Historic Waterfront: The Production of Tourism for Consumption

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines the impacts of tourism-led transformations on the industrial historical waterfront at Darling Harbour and The Rocks in Sydney, Australia in the context of urban restructuring and deindustrialisation. The book also offers an extended reflection on the paradoxes between tourism and heritage. This discussion is not a new concept....

Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor

Harry N. Abrams, 2019

Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become commonplace? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In fact, she earned her nickname “Lunatic” because of her deep fascination for all things lunar. In her lucidly written, comprehensive guide to the moon, Aderin-Pocock takes readers...

Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores travel, tourism, and urban development at the edges of Europe from the 1970s until the present. It compares tourism-spurred urban growth in Spain and Bulgaria, showing how development in Southern Europe after the fall of dictatorships provided a model for integrating post-socialist Europe in the 1990s. It analyzes the...

The Art and Science of NFC Programming (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing Series: Intellectual Technologies Set)

John Wiley & Sons, 2017

Even if the NFC standard is young (developed in 2004), I have been asked to write this book for several years now, due to the pioneering role played in France (and in Europe) by our Computer Science Master’s degree MBDS (www.mbds-fr.org) at the University of Nice – Sophia-Antipolis around the prototyping of innovative...

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2005: 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Jeju Island, Korea, November 11-13, 2005

Springer, 2005

We are delighted to welcome readers to the proceedings of the 6th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM). The first PCM was held in Sydney, Australia, in 2000. Since then, it has been hosted successfully by Beijing, China, in 2001, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2002, Singapore in 2003, and Tokyo, Japan, in 2004, and finally Jeju, one...

International Project Management

Academic Press, 2002

International Project Management provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international...

Spatial AutoRegression (SAR) Model: Parameter Estimation Techniques (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Springer, 2012

Explosive growth in the size of spatial databases has highlighted the need for spatial data analysis and spatial data mining techniques to mine the interesting but implicit spatial patterns within these large databases. Extracting useful and interesting patterns from massive geo-spatial datasets is important for many application...

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: The Power of AR and VR for Business (Progress in IS)

Springer, 2019

This book presents a collection of the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference 2018 in Manchester, UK, and showcases how augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are transforming the business landscape. Innovations in this field are seen as...

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