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An essential reference for anyone who creates conceptual, construction, or appraisal estimates, this updated edition explains how to develop accurate and verifiable estimates with a minimal investment of time.
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-Time-saving techniques for producing reliable conceptual estimates.
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Photography Through the Microscope (P-2)
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Excellent technical introduction.......1996-11-20
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A journey into everyday life through spectacular microscopic images.
This substantial volume brings together extraordinary images produced through the latest technologies in microphotography. Most of the 205 stunning, full-color photographs have been taken using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), allowing us to see our world as never before.
Each image is a close-up that reveals remarkable forms, shapes and colors. The book is divided into six chapters that cover:
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With its stunning full-color photographs and text written in clear and accessible language,
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- The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process
- A very good overview, well-written and well structured book.
- Read this book before arguing over tourism regulation.
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Managing Tourism Growth: Issues And Applications
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Tourism Planning: Basics, Concepts, Cases 4E PB
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Tourism is by many measures the world's largest and fastest growing industry, and it provides myriad benefits to hosts and visitors alike. Yet if poorly managed, tourism can have serious negative impacts on tourist communities-their environment, physical appearance, economy, health, safety, and even their social values.
Managing Tourism Growth analyzes and evaluates methods by which communities can carefully control tourism in order to maximize the positive aspects while minimizing the detrimental effects. The authors offer vivid examples of the ways in which uncontrolled tourism can adversely affect a community, and explain how to create an effective strategy that can protect tourism resources for current and future generations.
Specific chapters provide detailed descriptions and evaluations of various approaches that communities around the world have successfully used. The authors examine alternative legal and regulatory measures, management techniques, and incentives that target tourism growth at all levels, from the quality of development, to its amount and rate of growth, to the locations in which it takes place. Approaches examined include: quality differentiation, performance standards, and trade-off strategies; preservation rules, growth limitations, and incremental growth strategies; expansion, dispersal, and concentration strategies, and identification of new tourism resources. The final chapter presents a concise and useful checklist of the elements of successful strategies that can help guide destination communities in the planning process.
An outstanding feature of the book is the numerous and varied case studies it offers, including Santa Fe, New Mexico; Milford Sound, New Zealand; Nusa Dua, Bali; Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Sanibel, Florida; Canterbury, England; Republic of Maldives; Bruges, Belgium; Times Square, New York; Papua New Guinea; Park City, Utah; Whistler, British Columbia; and many others.
The depth and accessibility of information provided, along with the wealth of global case studies, make the book must-reading for planning professionals, government officials, tourism industry executives, consultants, and faculty and students of geography, planning, or tourism.
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The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process.......2001-06-14
The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process:
This book talk about the tourism growth to the perspective of sustanaible development, but give the global VISION. This VISION is very usefull because is based on System General Theory, and plus to this logic structure the COLABORATIVE activities establishing dynamic relationship between the components of Industry Tourism-System, the core of this book is the Community Participation towards to Common-Pool Resuorces Paradigm,in all cases relationated to tourism, for instance: in development, in perception , in behavior , and so on. For other hand, the management process is presented like the vehicule to perform any activitie or program or project in this study-object. My atention for this book was determine by the "system-process of management" , structured by a set of administrative conceptual focus: overall RESILIENCY and sustainability, efficiency and equity too. And in the Management is very important understand in really dimension the Strategies Process. So on..
I believe that this book is very usefull to create an advanced VISION of the component of Tourism Industry and the Management Process towards Sustainable Development. The book require previous studies about Management, Administrative Science, System Theory, System Analysis and Game Theory.
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A very good overview, well-written and well structured book........2000-04-24
The cases studied are very updated and they analyze several situation at many countries(on unusual economics situations).
Read this book before arguing over tourism regulation........1999-10-20
This survey is an essential resource for tourism supporters, opponents, regulators, and anyone else wants to understand what can happen and what can be done when the rest of the world finds out what a nice place you have.
It's basically a casebook, with a sturdy analytical framework to help you compare the cases. The authors describe regulatory systems for managing community tourism resources to control quality, to control quantity, to enhance the market, or some combination of these. Examples are provided from about 30 communities in the U.S. and around the world.
The book includes a particularly valuable collection of notes that should help readers track down further resources and contacts.
I'm a local government staffer for a city of 30,000 that has seen its tourism traffic swell to 700,000 people per summer, with daily loads up to 10,000. This book provides some comfort in knowing that we are not alone in this remarkable experience, and we can learn from what others have tried.
The book suffers somewhat from mediocre typography, but the layout is clean, the maps are helpful, and there's a sprinkling of photographs to give you a feel for some of the places under discussion. You may not need a copy for each of your planning commissioners, but you will probably want one or two to loan out and one to keep in your desk.
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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on August 30, 2004. The length of the article is 940 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Communities investing in sports development efforts.(Focus Tourism)
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Date: August 30, 2004
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This study investigates the causal relations between tourism growth and economic expansion for the Korean economy by using Engle and Granger two-stage approach and a bivariate Vector Autoregression (VAR) model. Two principle results emerge from this study. First, the results of a cointegration test indicate that there is no long-run equilibrium relation between two series. Second, the outcomes of Granger causality test imply the one-way causal relationship of economic-driven tourism growth. The hypothesis of tourism-led economic growth is not held in the Korean economy. This consequence is supported by testing the sensitivity of causality test under different lag selections along with the optimal lag.
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Title: Delta tourism development getting federal boost: comprehensive plan to market region in the works.(Delta Regional Authority)
Author: Lynne Jeter
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Title: Tourism a growth engine.(Nipigon/Red Rock)
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Tourism and China's Development : Policies, Regional Economic Growth & Ecotourism
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Tourism, Development and Growth: The Challenge of Sustainability
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Tourism, Development and Growth presents a comprehensive examination of the concept of sustainability as it relates to tourism growth. Set within the context of rapid change in contemporary tourism and world trends, the contributors explore how new geopolitical, socioeconomic, technological and environmental circumstances are influencing world tourism today.
Focusing on different types of tourism appropriate to particular situations, the essays offer examples from around the world--including the US and Canada--to explore issues concerning tourism's contribution to economic, social, political and environmental advancement of developing countries, and the challenges to and the importance of tourism in industrialized nations. This book identifies the opportunities and challenges inherent in achieving sustainable tourism while accommodating growth, and examines new policies and initiatives necessary, from both the private sector and the state, to pursue tourism growth in an uncertainand changing world.
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Tourism is booming worldwide--it makes up a massive part of the global economy. Donald G. Reid's book focuses on tourism in developing and less-developed countries. He examines its social and environmental impact and offers a timely critical analysis of the part it plays in globalization. Many of the world's poorest countries rely on the tourist trade for the major part of their income. However, all too often, the local communities involved do not reap the benefits of this trade. Developers often exclude local communities from the initial planning and decision-making process, viewing them either as a benign resource to be exploited, or as an impediment. Reid presents a rigourous critique of corporate-led tourism development and lays out alternatives that would give planning and control to the local communities involved. He argues that only in this way can the vastly differing requirments of each community be addressed, and social and environmental issues can be dealt with properly. The book includes a discussion of macro planning theory, and offers three case studies of locally controlled projects that show clearly how communities developing a tourist trade can benefit from it.
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Summary of the book.......2006-03-31
The book is a practical guide to effective tourism planning and development, especially in developing and less-developed countries. Its focus is to criticize the dominant tourism planning approach that is financially-oriented and assert the importance of considering the local community and the environment in the tourism planning process. Mainly, the book has (1) a theoretical part explaining tourism planning theories and criticizing the present tourism approaches and (2) a practical part providing a holistic or interdisciplinary planning approach for effective tourism planning. The book provides background on how globalization, capitalism and politics affect the planning process and outcomes of tourism. It also sheds light on the point that tourism is mostly planned and viewed from the economic perspective and is more concerned with increasing incomes for the country's development. This book is a research project supported with three case studies that demonstrate how tourism is planned and practiced. The main aims of the book are to provide a critique of present tourism models, to offer an effective model for tourism planning, and more importantly to show the need for a shift to a holistic tourism planning approach including the local community who is not benefiting and ignored in tourism planning process.
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