Territorio y Turismo Mundial

Territorio y Turismo Mundial
Author: Eva Mª Martín Roda
Publisher: Editorial Universitaria Ramon Areces
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8499611605

El objetivo de este libro es que el alumno se familiarice con unos mínimos conocimientos territoriales que faciliten el desarrollo de una parte de su actividad profesional, capacitándolo para analizar e interpretar las relaciones entre turismo y paisaje. Para ello se integra el estudio de la geografía turística desde diferentes perspectivas, por ejemplo, analizando los recursos culturales, determinando el impacto económico, estudiando las peculiaridades climáticas, considerando las características geomorfológicas.

Territorial Heritage and Development

Territorial Heritage and Development
Author: José Maria Feria
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0415621453

This book presents a new approach to heritage, linking it to territory and sustainable development. This new approach entails a broader, integrated view of heritage values on the one hand, and on the other a shift in emphasis from their protection to their valorisation. In short, it provides a view of the joint workings of natural and cultural resources, and, as a consequence, moving away from a protection point of view in favour of a perspective on their suitable sustainable valorisation. In the viewpoint taken here, sustainability is understood as the balance and long-term preservation and enhancement of such natural and cultural resources and processes in a given territory. Territorial Heritage and Development includes contributions from different disciplines (geography, architecture, planning, sociology, environmental studies and archaeology) and case studies drawn from three continents, broaching both analytical and conceptual developments, and a range of initiatives for engaging in territorial heritage as an instrument of sustainable development. The book takes a pioneering and relevant approach to the breadth and complexity of the issue which can be valuable to academics and policy-makers in Geography, Architecture, Planning and Sociology.

Spanish Tourism Geographies

Spanish Tourism Geographies
Author: Asunción Blanco-Romero
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2023-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031397800

This book provides an overview of the progress in Spanish tourism geography, particularly after the overlay of financial, pandemic and climate crisis, by the scrutiny of the different geographical areas and variables of analysis. It shows the diversity of geographical environments and their varied relationship with tourism, from the emptied inland regions to urban heritage in historic centres to coastal resorts. The book also introduces the analysis of the most important variables when studying the implications of Spanish tourist specialization. How are the beaches with intensive tourist use managed? What socio-spatial processes do leisure-rooted migrations involve? What are the labour conditions in the Spanish tourism industry? How does saving water boost tourism growth? The book offers answers through a methodological specificity of Spanish geography, which is highly oriented towards the analysis of public policies and even the proposal of new planning and methodology formulas that go beyond diagnostic studies. The domestic perspective, or that of insiders, of these scientists residing in Spain bestows them with special codes for conducting interpretations and analyses based on their everyday proximity to a territory characterised by its intense touristification. The tourism and real estate specialisation that Spanish society, together with its territory and institutions, have forged since the beginning of “developmentalism” permeates this scientific analysis. By providing a strong conceptual and empirical portrait, this book is a great resource for students and scholars in geography of tourism, as well as for social scientists and policy makers.

LEV

LEV
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1418
Release: 1999
Genre: Catalogs, Publishers'
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The Sustainable World

The Sustainable World
Author: C. A. Brebbia
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845645049

This book contains a collection of papers presented at a series of meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) dealing with sustainability, the environment and ecological issues. The complexity of the modern world presents new challenges to scientists and engineers that requires finding interdisciplinary solutions. Any problem solving carried out in the isolation of a particular field of expertise may give rise to a series of damaging effects which can create new and unintentional environmental and ecological problems. Specialisation, while required in our culture, needs to be kept under control by the understanding of the whole, which leads to the need of relying on interdisciplinary teams. Nowadays this can be easily achieved thanks to the massive advances in information technology which ensure continuous and immediate contact between all partners. This collaboration needs to be effective and to produce results that will lead to a better world. For this to happen, it is necessary that different groups of scientists and engineers acquire the necessary skills to be able to talk to each other. Furthermore, they need to understand the social and economic aspects of a given problem, in addition to the scientific and engineering issues involved. The Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) has a long and very successful record in organising interdisciplinary conferences. The papers in this book are a reflection of the proceedings of some of those meetings.

Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience

Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience
Author: Rodrigues, Maria Antónia
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2023-08-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668472449

The transition from mass tourism to niche tourism has been a slow process. It is clear that mass tourism can damage local culture, authenticity, and resources, and niche tourism is considerably important for the future of tourism companies and destination managers. Thus, it is essential for tourism companies and destination managers to be proactive and adapt to market changes and challenges to hold a stronger position in the business environment in the future. Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience provides relevant theoretical and empirical research findings, an innovative and multifaceted perspective of the niche tourist experience, and an understanding of how companies adopt business models based on sustainable paradigms and innovative technologies as a way to create value. Covering topics such as business models, rural tourism, and visitor experience, this premier reference source is an essential resource for marketing managers, product developers, niche tourism executives, marketing and tourism students, business professionals, researchers, and academicians.