Transforming Travel

Transforming Travel
Author: Jeremy Smith
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786394197

Transforming Travel combines stories from leading companies, interviews with pioneers and thinkers, along with thorough analysis of the industry's potential to make lasting, positive change. Written in a highly engaging style Transforming Travel presents an urgent argument for transforming tourism so it might reach its potential to promote tolerance, restore communities and regenerate habitats, while providing a vital guide for anyone looking to develop the successful sustainable tourism enterprises and destinations needed to do so.

Travel and Transformation

Travel and Transformation
Author: Garth Lean
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317006585

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.

Transformational Tourism

Transformational Tourism
Author: Yvette Reisinger
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-08-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1780643926

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.

Transformational Tourism

Transformational Tourism
Author: Yvette Reisinger
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1780642091

This book deals with the issue of how travel and tourism, if developed in a proper form, can contribute to human transformation, growth and development, and change human behaviour and our relationship with the world. The volume investigates the experiences offered by travel and tourism that can change travellers as human beings and their relationships and interactions with natural, socio-cultural, economic, political and technological environments. The book has been published in two volumes. This first volume focuses on the tourist perspective and the tourist self. It consists of 16 chapters covering different types of tourism, including: wellness, retreat, religious and spiritual tourism; extreme sports, backpacking and cultural tourism; WWOOFing and ecotourism; and volunteer and educational tourism. This book is primarily intended for tourism students and tourism programmes in business and non-business schools. However, it could also appeal to students, academics and professionals from disciplines that deal with human development and behavioural changes.

Transforming Student Travel

Transforming Student Travel
Author: Faye Brenner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475820712

Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” This resource guide explores ways educators can encourage students not only to see with “new eyes,” but also to understand how they know. The International Baccalaureate informs the first part of the book which includes educational research as well as practical suggestions for improving the tour experience, including an integration of academic subjects. Although much has been written about the impact of international travel, this book explores ways educators can transform domestic tours for public and parochial school students. The second part of the book offers resource guides for four cities – Washington, D.C.; New York; Philadelphia; and Boston. Teachers, tour directors, and tour operators, will find discussion questions activities as well as detailed background information for four of the most visited cities by students. Many of the questions and strategies can be adapted for other landscapes.

The Transformational Travel Journal

The Transformational Travel Journal
Author: Eric Rupp
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578907666

This unique journal was thoughtfully written, based on the rigorous multi-disciplinary study of the Transformational Travel Council. Based on ancient wisdom, mythology, and contemporary science, it is more than a journal, it is an insightful guide to exploring the world, and your own backyard, more mindfully.We invite you to begin dreaming and designing for your next journey today, from the inside out, learn to Travel with HEART, and Follow the PATH. Whether it is for you or an intrepid friend, this wise investment in travel will not only be life-affirming for the traveler but life-enhancing for others, and our civilization.This journal guides into a deeper connection with yourself, with others, and the world around you. It also encourages time and space to reflect and make meaning of the experiences you have, and thereby, fostering a more intentional, virtuous, and heart-centric life while contributing to a more ethical, empathetic, equitable, and ecological world.Transformational Travel is inherently about leaving our comfort zone and returning with new perspectives. It is a catalyst for growth, change, and positive impact.

The Emerald Handbook of ICT in Tourism and Hospitality

The Emerald Handbook of ICT in Tourism and Hospitality
Author: Azizul Hassan
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839826908

The Emerald Handbook of ICT in Tourism and Hospitality incorporates key research findings, in-depth case studies and discussion of the future implications stemming from technologies changes and developments across a number of core themes.

Generative AI for Transformational Management

Generative AI for Transformational Management
Author: Gomathi Sankar, Jeganathan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2024-08-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The business world today is changing at a breakneck pace. Traditional management practices need help keeping up with the uncertainties and complexities of the digital age. Leaders face a lot of pressure to innovate, adapt, and drive transformative change within their organizations. However, they need more than just conventional wisdom to navigate this terrain. A deep understanding of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and their practical applications in management is essential. Generative AI for Transformational Management offers a compelling solution to these challenges. This book provides a roadmap for leveraging AI to drive organizational transformation by exploring the intersection of generative AI and visionary leadership. By examining real-world case studies and practical applications, readers can learn how AI can be integrated into leadership practices to promote innovation and proactive decision-making and effectively navigate the complexities of the digital age.

Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own

Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own
Author: Jeffrey A. Kottler
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2009-01-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470484950

By supporting others and promoting change, helping professionals also enjoy the benefit of personal growth. Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own is filled with narratives from individuals from social work, psychology, counseling, and allied health fields. Inspiring and stirring, this book vividly illustrates how to promote social justice and foster global human rights. Its accompanying DVD features stories from a social justice mission to Nepal reaching out to neglected children. Students and professionals will find this book a profound reminder of how targeted social justice efforts have resulted in transformative experiences. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Great Women Travel Writers

Great Women Travel Writers
Author: Alba della Fazia Amoia
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780826416834

Travel is sacred. Travel is a quest. Travel is an escape. Travel is a passion! It is enlightening, a distraction, a novelty, a dream fulfilled. It may inspire joy, terror, longing – often, all three. Women explorers and travelers are a special breed. Some were also great writers, recording their cross-cultural impressions with stunning vividness, blending history, myth, technology, and poetic imagination. The 22 courageous women profiled in this book encircled the globe. Together, they form a grand tradition and speak to us today as never before – - Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839) left the comfort of England to wander through the Near East – never to return home, so deeply did she treasure her freedom - Fanny Lewald (1811-89) traveled through Europe and especially Italy to record its Risorgimento - Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) traveled from India and lived through Western experiences that revamped her ideas - Daisy Bates (1859-1951), Irish to the roots, immersed herself in Australian Aboriginals - Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), dubbed Queen of the Desert, was the most powerful woman in Edwardian England - the Danish Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) made her mark in Africa - Anaïs Nin (1903-77) may be thought of as a mental traveler - Freya Stark (1893-1993) – knighted by Queen Elizabeth for her contribution to travel literature – lived among the Druze of Syria and in shades of our own time researched the deadly terrorist group of ancient Persian Assassins - Oriana Fallaci (1930- ) has literally covered the world - Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937- ), has surely traveled the farthest as the first woman in space A dozen other women who boldly crossed international barriers often to encounter the most patriarchal cultures of their time are focused on in this delightful book – a significant contribution to travel literature as well as to women’s studies.