Backpacker Business

Author : Mark P. Hampton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135933081

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Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development by Mark P. Hampton Pdf

There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant economic development impacts of backpacker tourism upon local communities especially in areas with the largest concentrations of backpackers (South and South-East Asia particularly Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and India), as well as increasingly in Latin America. This volume provides a focused review of the economic development impacts of backpacker tourism in developing regions furthering knowledge on how backpacker tourism can play a crucial role in development strategies in these areas. First, it reviews the origins of the backpackers with a detailed examination of their "hippy" predecessors on the overland trail, before discussing the emergence of modern backpackers including social and cultural aspects, and how new technologies are changing their experience. It then analyses the powerful economic development impacts of backpackers on local host communities in cities and rural areas with a special focus on coastal destinations. Extensive case study material is used from backpacker destinations across Asia, Latin America and Africa. In doing so the book provides original insights into how backpacker tourism is highly significant for poverty alleviation and effective local development since it has strong linkages to the local economy, and less economic leakage than conventional tourism. Written by a leading academic in this area, this volume will be of interest to students of Tourism and Development Studies.

Author : Keith Hanley,John K. Walton
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845412067

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Constructing Cultural Tourism by Keith Hanley,John K. Walton Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development of cultural tourism which was probably as significant as that, for example, of his contemporary Thomas Cook. The book assesses Ruskin’s overall influence on the development of national and international tourism in the context of pre-existing expectations about tourism flows and cultural capital and alongside parallel and intersecting trends of the time; examines Ruskin’s contribution to the tourist agenda at all social levels; and discusses Ruskin’s significance for current debates in tourism studies, especially questions of the place of the ‘canon’ of traditional European cultural tourism in a post-modern tourist setting, and the various incarnations of ‘heritage tourism’.

Author : Kevin Hannam,Anya Diekmann
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845411305

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Beyond Backpacker Tourism by Kevin Hannam,Anya Diekmann Pdf

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the 'flashpacker' and alternative destinations.

Author : Carmine Sellitto,David Banks,Scott Bingley,Stephen Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317378136

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Small Businesses and Effective ICT by Carmine Sellitto,David Banks,Scott Bingley,Stephen Burgess Pdf

Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms. Many undervalue the importance of information and communication technology (ICT). Within the small business segment there can be significant differences amongst the avid early adopters of ICT and the laggards. Research on early adopters tends be more prevalent as they are perceived to have a more interesting and positive story. However, late adopters and ‘laggards’ also have their own interesting stories that are under-reported. Small Business and Effective ICT draws on research undertaken over several years and documents the adoption/use of ICT across ‘better’ users of ICT (Leaders), typical ICT users (Operationals) and late adopters (Laggards). The findings are presented using a re-formulation of the LIASE framework which addresses a number of areas that include ICT literacy (L), information content/communication (I), Access (A), Infrastructure (I), Support (S) and Evaluation (E). Some 60 businesses were investigated in Australia and the UK, with each business presented as a concise vignette. The vignettes serve to show that small businesses are not as conservative in their use of ICT as the literature suggests, with examples of innovative uses of ICT in small businesses provided. Lessons for the effective use of ICT by small businesses are presented. The research design, methods adopted, presentation of findings through the vignettes, and ‘take away’ lessons have been written in manner to appeal to a broad range of readers including academics, researchers, students and policy makers in the discipline.

Author : Robert E. Pfister,Patrick T. Tierney
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0736063536

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Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses by Robert E. Pfister,Patrick T. Tierney Pdf

"Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses: Start-Up and Sustainable Operations reveals the keys to business success in the commercial recreation, event, and tourism sector. Until now, students, professors, and professionals interested in this growing industry have been limited to general business or basic recreation texts. In this book the authors have combined their expertise as both business owners and professors to offer a comprehensive and industry-specific course textbook and step-by-step guide for business start-up." "Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses presents new professionals and potential business owners with clear, easy-to-read directions for developing and writing a business plan. The book's business profiles and case studies serve as examples to follow when working on the plan and help readers gain insight into how businesses are planned, started, and funded. It also lays out important strategies for starting a business and shares best practices based on successful recreation businesses."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anna Spenceley,Dorothea Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317387022

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Tourism and Poverty Reduction by Anna Spenceley,Dorothea Meyer Pdf

Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of publications that have analysed and critiqued the potential of tourism to be a mechanism for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries (LEDCs). This book showcases work by established and emerging researchers that provides new thinking and tests previously made assumptions, providing an essential guide for students, practitioners and academics. This book advances our understanding of the changes and ways forward in the field of sustainable tourism development. Five main themes are illustrated throughout the book: (1) measuring impacts of tourism on poverty; (2) the need to evaluate whether interventions that aim to reduce poverty are effective; (3) how unbalanced power relations and weak governance can undermine efforts; (4) the importance of the private sector’s use of pro-poor business practices; and (5) the value of using multidisciplinary and multi-method research approaches. Furthermore, the book shows that academic research findings can be used practically in destinations, and how practitioners can benefit from sharing their experiences with academic scholars. This book was based on a special issue and various articles from the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Author : Till Albrecht Müller
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783842812840

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Local Economic Development Impacts of International Backpacker Tourism to Third World Destinations by Till Albrecht Müller Pdf

Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: In the past two decades backpacker tourism has grown vastly throughout both developed and developing world. Particularly to south and Southeast Asian countries the phenomenon of backpacking is not new, so to India, where it dates back to the 60 s and 70 s hippy drifters, to which backpacking is often associated. It has been since the publication of the Lonely Planet s Yellow Bible ( Southeast Asia on a Shoestring ) in 1975 that backpacking has gradually emerged as a mass travel style. Today popular travel-yourself literature cover almost every corner of the globe, serving a steady demand for off the beaten path travel. Thereby to backpackers the developmental background of a destination plays a lesser role than to the mainstream tourist, who is demanding certain infrastructural arrangements. As a result backpackers are found in utmost remote and low developed locations that other tourists never reach. Thus backpacker enclaves have emerged in many places throughout the world, and not without effects on their hosting environments. While social impacts often carry negative connotations, hosting communities do usually appreciate backpackers for their economic contributions. Objectives and Scope of this paper: In recent years backpacker tourism has profoundly been studied in developed contexts, particularly Australia and New Zealand are to be seen the pioneering regions of independent travel research, having undertaken strenuous efforts to study the same within the past two decades. As a consequence both destinations have recognized the economic value of low budget travel to their countries and established backpacker tourism as high yielding segments within their national tourism markets. In both countries backpacking has since undergone shift from de-marketing to a marketing label. Though in recent years international research has made numerous successful attempts to study backpacker tourism in less developed contexts, many tourism officials in third world destinations as yet refuse to accept the economic reach coming along with low-budget travel. Instead a majority of administrative instances promote upscale- and regulated forms of tourism to be the way forward, neglecting any concerns with regard to necessary infrastructure or initial investments. Though only a fraction of developing nations do actively restrict independent travel to their territories (e.g. Maldives, Bhutan), a majority at best tacitly ignores the [...]

Author : Philip Pearce,Sebastian Filep,Glenn Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136930270

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Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life by Philip Pearce,Sebastian Filep,Glenn Ross Pdf

Examines the linkages between tourists, tourism and positive psychology. This book is of interest to those who study and practise tourism as well as scholars in a range of disciplines such as psychology, business and sociology.

Author : Erik H. Cohen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080467368

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Explorations in Thai Tourism by Erik H. Cohen Pdf

Intends to contribute to the formation, embodiment, and advancement of knowledge in the field of tourism. This series includes application of theoretical, methodological, and substantive contributions from such fields as anthropology, business administration, ecology, economics, geography, history, hospitality, leisure, and planning.

Author : Nikki Scott
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530608333

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Backpacker Business by Nikki Scott Pdf

Written on chicken buses, trains, boats and in beach bars all across Southeast Asia, this is the story of how a 23-year old English backpacker set up the first print magazine for independent travellers in Southeast Asia. From inexperienced backpacker in Nepal to established publisher in Thailand, via business deals in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia and the Philippines, Nikki's story will inspire you to travel and think differently about the type of life you want to lead. Join her as she discovers eye-opening ways of doing business in Southeast Asia, experiences anti-government riots in Bangkok, meets a host of quirky characters on the paradise island of Koh Phangan and deals with the tragic death of her father amidst a very foreign culture. This real life story is full of the highs and lows of pursuing an alternative path overseas. Follow Nikki's journey and be inspired to create your own unique adventure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610593397

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One Show Design Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce Prideaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136201097

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Rainforest Tourism, Conservation and Management by Bruce Prideaux Pdf

Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. Rainforests are also attractive tourist spaces and where they have been used as a tourism resource they have generated significant income for local communities. However, not all use of rainforests as a tourism resource has been sustainable. This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which tourism use of this complex but ultimately fragile ecosystem is built upon. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective, incorporating rainforest science, management and tourism issues. The book is organized into four sections commencing with 'Tourism in rainforest regions', followed by 'Threats to rainforest tourism' and 'The development and management of rainforest experiences', and finally 'Wildlife and rainforest tourism'. Each major rainforest region is covered, including the Amazon, Central America, Africa, Australia and south-east Asia, in the context of a specific issue. For example, rainforests in Papua New Guinea are examined in the context of community-based ecotourism development, while the rainforests in Borneo are discussed in an examination of wildlife issues. Other issues covered in this manner include governance, empowerment issues for rainforest peoples and climate change.

Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780791488102

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The Best Olympics Ever? by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj Pdf

Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.

Author : Roy C. Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351690492

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Hotel Accommodation Management by Roy C. Wood Pdf

This book offers students a uniquely concise, accessible and comprehensive introduction to hotel accommodation management that covers the range of managerial subjects and disciplines in the sector. The book focuses on enduring aspects of the accommodation management function (front office management, housekeeping, revenue management); the changing context of hotel accommodation provision (the move to ‘asset light’, the supply of accommodation, trends in hotel investment and asset management, the challenges engendered by social media and the collaborative economy to the hotel market); and the role of accommodation in additional and integrated facilities and markets (spas, resorts, MICE markets). International case studies illustrating examples of practice in the industry are integrated throughout, along with study questions and other features to aid understanding and problem solving. This is essential reading for all hospitality and hotel management students.

Author : Alan A. Lew,Joseph M. Cheer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315463957

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Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change by Alan A. Lew,Joseph M. Cheer Pdf

In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex social and environmental systems. Despite this, tourism scholars have been slow to adopt resilience concepts, at a time when the emergence of new frameworks and applications is pressing. Drawing on original empirical and theoretical insights in resilience thinking, this book explores how tourism communities and economies respond to environmental changes, both fast (natural hazard disasters) and slow (incremental shifts). It explores how tourism places adapt, change, and sometimes transform (or not) in relation to their environmental context, with an awareness of intersection with societal dynamics and links to political, economic and social drivers of change. Contributions draw on empirical research conducted in a range of international settings, including indigenous communities, to explore the complexity and gradations of environmental change encounters and resilience planning responses in a range of tourism contexts. As the first book to specifically focus on environmental change from a resilience perspective, this timely and original work makes a critical contribution to tourism studies, tourism management and environmental geography, as well as environmental sciences and development studies.