Completely updated and revised, Cruise Ship Tourism, 2nd Edition covers the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruising, combining the latest knowledge and research to provide a comprehensive account of the subject. Despite the industry growing rapidly, there is a substantial gap in the related literature, and this book addresses the key issues for researchers, students and industry professionals. This second edition: - Reviews the fundamental principles of the industry, the cru...

Elephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have been developed into sanctuaries for some elephants, but many other camps were established as entertainment centres, resulting in serious welfare issues for the elephants and their mahouts. The pr...

Leitor amigo.Os viajores sedentos, em longa excursão em terras secas, encontram um poço de água simples e dessedentam-se com grande manifestação de alegria.Assim também este volume despretensioso assemelha-se ao poço referido, atendendo aos viajores da vida com algumas gotas da verdade alimentando-os de paz e de esperança.Emmanuel

"Enfim, nasce o "Tratado de Arbitragem", um projeto que uniu profissionais das mais diversas jurisdições – Argentina, Brasil, Canadá, Colômbia, Espanha, França, Portugal – para um único fim: aprofundar o estudo e estimular o debate sobre arbitragem sob as perspectivas brasileira e internacional e sob as mais variadas facetas. O "Tratado de Arbitragem" foi dividido em duas grandes partes, nas quais se distribuem 42 capítulos, escritos por grandes nomes da arbitragem brasileira: a Parte Gera...

Every year a huge amount of organic solid waste is generated globally. This quantity is expected to keep increasing, making sustainable, safe and environmentally responsible management of solid waste vitally important. Composting offers a circular and low-impact route to managing and treating organic solid waste and produces a nutrient rich medium with uses in horticulture and agriculture.Beginning with a solid introduction to the fundamentals of composting, including bioreactor en...

This comprehensive volume considers the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of tourism and hospitality firms towards stakeholders, exploring CSR in terms of broad stakeholder accountability by considering both the scope of reporting and the quality of stakeholder engagement. The authors analyse how CSR contributes to shareholder accountability (i.e. as financial performance) by developing a multiple attribute decision-making model to deploy CSR resources, analysing how ...

Tourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism. Sustainability marketing can, however, use marketing skills and techniques to good purpose, by understanding market needs, designing more sustainable products and identifying more persuasive methods of communication to bring behavioural change. This book summarises the latest research on the theories, methods and results of marketing that seeks to make tourist destinations better places to live i...

Els anomenats «successos de Polinyà» foren un dels episodis històrics més desconeguts i tèrbols de la baronia de Corbera: la resistència de les autoritats locals, vassalls del duc de Gandia, a l'oficial enviat pel virrei per capturar uns bandolers condemnats a mort. Aquesta obra recull la documentació produïda per aquests fets, així com les posteriors denúncies que es presentaren.

This book provides a holistic approach to understand the challenges and opportunities related to the planning and management of sustainable development in tourism. The editors present a collection of empirical studies, best-practice cases, and theoretical discussions to draw insights on the economic, social, environmental, and political dimensions of sustainability. Specifically, using a range of case studies examining sustainability applications within various tourism industry sectors as ...