On The Origin Of The Species Homo Touristicus

Author : William D. Chalmers
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781450289276

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On the Origin of the Species Homo Touristicus by William D. Chalmers Pdf

A stunningly well-researched book, offering readers an authentically fresh and at times wickedly off -the-beaten path irreverent look at travel history and the evolution of homo touristicus. This insightful book takes you on a Grand Tour full of fun and interesting nuggets about travel the past, the present, and soon to be future, that is sure to make you laugh, make you think, and keep you reading. Just perusing the Table of Contents whets your appetite for more. This multi-disciplinary look at the travel and tourism industryand we travelers who make it all happenincludes: the age of discovery, world wonders, tourist novelties, the paths of pilgrims, travel safety and security, travel literature, geography and mapmaking, Grand Hotels, the technology of travel, travel industry porn and public relations campaigns, mysterious liaisons, and affairs to remember, along with great travel quotes and culturally relevant tourism-related anecdotes. This factual, enlightening, and oh so opinionated book is designed for real travelers, casual tourists, and armchair travelers alike; with this fi rst edition disproving myths, unveiling new legends and bursting a few overly righteous historical bubbles along the way. Indeed, this book includes something for all members of homo touristicus who have been there, done that, and keenly want to know what is next!

Author : William D. Chalmers
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475979558

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America's Vacation Deficit Disorder by William D. Chalmers Pdf

"It is no secret that America is the No Vacation Nation. Our vacations nowadays consist of nothing more than a few long weekends a year...when we're not on staycations. Workplace stress and burnout in America are at all-time highs. That Americans are over-caff einated and sleep deprived is not surprising given that our work-leisure balance is so severely lopsided. Depression is epidemic. Chalmers' estimates that these seemingly isolated, yet wholly interconnected cultural data points cost the U.S. economy a trillion dollars a year in lost productivity...and may be shortening the life spans of Americans too! But it wasn't always like this in America...and it surely doesn't have to be either. A stunningly well-researched book, offering readers an explanation of why Americans are suffering from an acute case of Vacation Deficit Disorder...and what the unintended consequences mean to every American couple, parents, families, workers, bosses, and our nations economy. It explains clearly why Americans dont travel...and why they really should! What really makes humans happy; and offers profound insight into how the lucky few Americans who do take vacations can enjoy them better and reap their life-enhancing benefits. And it passionately explains how all Americans would benefi t from his 4% Solution prescription. This book offers a compelling American centric cultural narrative that explains in great detail and with erudite analysis just who stole our vacation.

Author : Johannes Riquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198832409

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The Aesthetics of Island Space by Johannes Riquet Pdf

This book focuses on the challenges and uncertainties involved when island geography is translated into words and images, and it explores the complexities and contradictions of islands as figures of thought in Western modernity. Other studies have shown how islands have been imagined as bounded, easily controllable spaces and colonial territories; The Aesthetics of Island Space argues that they have been linked to disorientation and confusion as much asto spatial mastery and control. The book traces four lines in the vast sea of Anglo-American island stories, each of which has its beginning in one of modernity's voyages of discovery. The chapters focus onAmerica's island gateways (Roanoke and Ellis Island), visions of tropical islands (Tahiti and imagined South Sea islands), the islands of the US-Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest, and the imaginative appeal of geologically mutable islands. The book studies the journals of explorers and scientists alongside literary texts and films. It discusses a panorama of real and imagined journeys that take their narrators, protagonists, and readers to the limits of human perception andunderstanding, where borders are drawn and dissolved in a disorienting world between water and land.

Author : Vicky Katsoni,Amitabh Upadhya,Anastasia Stratigea
Publisher : Springer
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319477329

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Tourism, Culture and Heritage in a Smart Economy by Vicky Katsoni,Amitabh Upadhya,Anastasia Stratigea Pdf

This book explores the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer a powerful tool for the development of smart tourism. Numerous examples are presented from across the entire spectrum of cultural and heritage tourism, including art, innovations in museum interpretation and collections management, cross-cultural visions, gastronomy, film tourism, dark tourism, sports tourism, and wine tourism. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the smart destinations concept and a knowledge economy driven by innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. New modes of tourism management are described, and tourism products, services, and strategies for the stimulation of economic innovation and promotion of knowledge transfer are outlined. The potential of diverse emerging ICTs in this context is clearly explained, covering location-based services, internet of things, smart cities, mobile services, gamification, digital collections and the virtual visitor, social media, social networking, and augmented reality. The book is edited in collaboration with the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT) and includes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism.

Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Romanticism
ISBN : 9780300272666

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Volcanic by John Brewer Pdf

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature. John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travellers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fuelling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins.

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor's
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 067901263X

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North Africa, 1986 by Fodor's Pdf

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor's Travel Publications
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984-08-12
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 0679011404

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Fodor's North Africa, 1985 by Fodor's Pdf

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : Fodor's
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0679016821

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North Africa '89 by Richard Moore Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : IND:32000007374509

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Fodor's North Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fodor's,Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodor's
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-11-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0679019421

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Morocco by Fodor's,Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff Pdf

Author : Patrick Symmes
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375422836

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The Boys from Dolores by Patrick Symmes Pdf

From the author ofChasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership. Instead, they were swept into war, revolution, and exile by two of their own number, Fidel and Raúl Castro. Trained by Jesuits for dialectical dexterity and the pursuit of absolutes, Fidel Castro swiftly destroyed the old Cuba they had come from, down to the hallways of Dolores itself. At once sweeping and intimate, this remarkable history by Patrick Symmes is a tour de force investigation of the world that gave birth to Fidel Castro – and the world his Cuban Revolution leaves behind.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Arts, German
ISBN : UOM:39015061539055

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In by Anonim Pdf

Author : Derek Mahon
Publisher : Wake Forest University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0916390829

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The Yellow Book by Derek Mahon Pdf

In The Yellow Book, the home-seeking traveler--"a decadent who lived to tell the story"--finds lodgings in our fierce fin de siècle under the roof of his Dublin attic flat. Amid echoes from dead writers, "clouds of unknowing" from his "last Camel," and ghosts from his own life, the poet muses wisely and wittily on our wound-down decade and expiring double millennium. These twenty-one absorbing, sometimes mordantly funny, and always delightful meditations offer us both the distinctive details of our shared lives and a theoptic view from "windows flung wide on briny balconies/above an ocean of roofs and lighthouse beams;/like a storm lantern the wintry planet swings." ("Night Thought")

Author : Graham Dann,Giuli Liebman Parrinello
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846639890

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Sociology of Tourism by Graham Dann,Giuli Liebman Parrinello Pdf

There is abundant evidence of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism by academics from the English-speaking world. This title familiarises readers in the US, UK, Australia and the English speaking regions of Africa and Asia with such evolutionary thinking.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446485675

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Small World by David Lodge Pdf

Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...