Construction Funding: The Process of Real Estate Development, Appraisal, and Finance

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This updated classic is unrivaled in its complete, single-volume coverage of financing real estate development

This thoroughly revised Third Edition of Construction Funding provides professional and student readers alike with the critical tools needed for developing any successful real estate venture. Using a case example of a 260-unit apartment development, the authors walk the reader through each project phase, offering invaluable guidance on raising capital, selecting markets, rating sites, securing insurance, creating joint ventures, understanding loan options, and mastering cash flow management.

Beginning with an overview of today's real estate industry, Construction Funding acquaints readers with various types of business organizations in real estate, including the advantages and disadvantages of each. An entire chapter in this first section is devoted to the most critical tool of them all: negotiation. The second section of the book provides a step-by-step outline of the typical development process from start to finish. Included in this section are guidelines for:

Creating a pro forma that will make projects profitable, not a loss
Understanding the appraisal-the key to financing real estate
Navigating a loan application
Correctly completing all required documents to close a construction loan
Writing a commitment letter that can seal a $15 million deal

The final, third section addresses the mathematical and technical tools of construction, including chapters on forecasting cash flow needs, calculating the time value of money, and funding and feasibility problems. Also provided are appendices containing loan forms, interest rate tables, and valuable information on federal construction programs.

Written by a team of authors with broad experience in the construction and real estate industries, Construction Funding is the book to guide undergraduate and graduate students in construction programs, as well as an invaluable reference for professional developers, planners, and contractors.

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the right book, at the right time, in the right place... dubai.......2006-08-17

the right book, at the right time, in the right place... dubai

What a Phenomenal Job!.......2005-04-14

I read construction funding, prematurely perhaps, as one of my first ever real estate books - and I loved it! The book takes the reader through several once-real-life scenarios and explains the construction process step by step. I think that both ambitious beginners and more seasoned loan officers and developers would benefit from reading this book.

MBA student.......2002-03-05

Very interesting book; very easy to read.
As a small real estate investor I found it very helpful in understanding many of the ins and outs of real estate and financing, especially on the scale i would like to grow to.

A first class book on Real Estate Development.......2002-02-05

The third edition of Construction Funding by Nathan S. Collier et al is a remarkable demonstration of insight and expertise. Collier and colleagues provide an exceptionally lucid description and analysis of the process of real estate development that is accessible to non-experts while being authoritative at the same time. In addition to being an excellent text for students and others interested in careers in real estate development, this book serves as essential background for all those whose responsibilities include any part of the development process.

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How to eliminate swamp gas

If you're running a meeting you should get this book

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Wonderful book

Great Meetings is a Great Resource

Great Meetings!: How to Facilitate Like a Pro
Dee Kelsey , and Pan Plumb
Manufacturer: Hanson Park Press, Inc.
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ASIN: 0965835405

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Great Meetings!is a user-friendly resource book designed to help meeting leaders, facilitators, and participants understand the important steps for planning and facilitating a great meeting.It is also a useful text for facilitation and meeting management training. Topics include: What is facilitation, getting to know your group, preparing for a meeting, designing a great meeting, problem solving process tools, maximizing your group's potential, promoting positive communication, managing conflict, intervening, and using graphics.

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How to eliminate swamp gas.......2005-01-19

This is a revised and expanded edition of a book which has proven especially helpful to those responsible for planning and conducting meetings but also to those who need to improve their presentation skills in other situations such as when meeting with a supervisor (e.g. to provide a progress report) or with a client (e.g. to make recommendations concerning new initiatives). Kelsey and Plumb are professional meeting facilitators who also train others to become effective facilitators. In this new edition, they share much of the same material found in the first edition (Great Meetings! How to Facilitate Like a Pro) but develop it in much greater depth, in response to extensive feedback which they have obtained since 1997. They respond to questions such as these:

What distinguishes facilitation from meeting organization, process design, process coaching, and organizational development consulting?
How to achieve effective group dynamics?
How best to prepare for a meeting?
How to design a great meeting?
Which three basic process steps are involved?
Which tools are needed to generate and evaluate ideas which result in appropriate decisions?
How to maximize a group's potential?
Which skills are need to promote positive communication?
How best to avoid or resolve conflicts?
When should a facilitator intervene in a group discussion? (When not to?)
How to enhance the group discussion with graphics? How best to integrate them?
Which personal issues are most significant to effective facilitation?

Kelsey and Plumb offer countless suggestions as to What to do, How to do it, What NOT to do, and Why. Those who are relatively inexperienced in terms of meeting facilitation will probably derive the greatest value from this book but I think it can also be of substantial benefit to others in need of fresh perspectives, sharper skills, and additional tools as they prepare to facilitate the next group meeting. When concluding this brief commentary, I presume to share a few thoughts of my own. First, make certain that there is a compelling need for a meeting. Second, include only those who are essential to the success of the meeting. Third, share the agenda in advance. Fourth, identify specific objectives and limit the discussion to achieving them. Finally, make certain when determining next steps that each task has an "owner" and a deadline. Follow up to ensure that everyone follows through. Without direct accountability, nothing will be accomplished.

If you're running a meeting you should get this book.......2004-11-17

This book is 15% theory, and 85% practical tools and techniques. Anybody responsible for facilitating any kind of meeting will find this book to be a treasure trove of helpful ideas, and welcome wisdom. It's light-hearted and easy to read. I'd be comfortable giving it to somebody quite inexperienced in running meetings, but also found much that spoke to this seasoned practitioner.

As the authors note in their introduction, "Meetings take planning and preparation to be successful. Agendas need to be designed carefully ... Managing a meeting takes a host of facilitation skills and a full bag of process tools." This book addresses all these needs in a very direct manner.

Veteran facilitator comments.......2004-10-28

I have used Great Meetings alongside several other facilitation texts for several years in a course on group facilitation in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. Recently a student in our program wrote an enthusiastic review. She has many years of experience as a community facilitator and has demonstrated herself to be highly knowledgeable and competent. With permission of the author, Phoebe Kilby, owner of Sympoetica, phoebek@sympoetica.net, I post it below. This is a review of the 2003 edition of the book. The book has been republished in a 2004 edition.
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Until I read Great Meetings! I thought the The Facilitator¡¦s Fieldbook by Thomas Justice and David W. Jamieson was one of the best books I had read on facilitation. I have used the latter a number of times as a reference to help me solve particular facilitation challenges. Now reading Great Meetings!, I found myself inspired to raise my facilitation to a higher level. Great Meetings! provides insights into facilitation as an art and by doing so I think it inspires more creativity.

On first reading, one might think that this book is just a beginner¡¦s introduction to facilitation. Actually, I have taught graduate courses in urban planning and would use this book enthusiastically if I had the opportunity to teach again. A great deal of most planners¡¦ work involves meeting facilitation, particularly facilitation of citizen task force meetings and open public forums and workshops. Even though I have been facilitating for many years, I still found this book very engaging and can see its potential usefulness. It is not organized like a reference guidebook. Rather it takes the reader through the whole process of planning for and conducting a meeting as well as various facilitation techniques in an easy-to-read style that is better consumed in one reading and taken as a whole like a novel. The writing has a flow that allows a more holistic understanding of facilitation. This is helpful for students and seasoned facilitators alike.

I found the conclusion of the book particularly insightful. Here is where the authors expound on essence of facilitation. Facilitation, while improved by technical skills, is really an art. It is not predictable or formulaic, because people are not so. Each time we work with people in a group, we learn something new about group dynamics. This requires us to respond in creative ways. Great meetings! encourages us to use our creativity.

I also enjoyed thinking about the facilitator as being on a continuum between meeting planner on the one end and therapist on the other. Arnold Mindell in his book Sitting in the Fire approaches facilitation very much like a therapist and in my opinion goes too far into group therapy to offer useful guidance to persons lacking his level of training in psychology. The Facilitator¡¦s Fieldbook is perhaps too formulaic and closer to the meeting planner end of the spectrum. Great Meetings! I think strikes the right balance.

Also, Great Meetings! is the first book I have encountered that describes well the type of facilitator that we planners often are ¡V the facilitator/expert. We are rarely purely facilitators. We facilitate meetings as just one part of our practice, since we are expected to be experts in urban planning and thus to offer advice to our groups on technical planning matters. The authors legitimize this role by articulating the primary reason why this has always seemed acceptable to us. While we have ¡§content expertise,¡¨ we do not have a stake in the outcome of the group¡¦s work. In other words, most of us now accept that we are here to help communities evolve into the type of community the citizens would like. We are not here to tell them what to do, but to help them to discover their goals and to help them find ways to achieve the goals.

Another set of insights I gained from this book that I have not seen in other books on facilitation are ideas about the ethics of facilitation, and particularly, when to say ¡§no.¡¨ Planners should ask themselves the questions on pages 161 and 162 before they agree to facilitate a project. Recently, I turned down a consulting job for one of the reasons the authors cite; it was ¡§a thinly veiled attempt for someone to put forth his own agenda.¡¨ The mayor of a small town called me to ask me to help a steering committee prepare a draft land use plan. He admitted to me he saw no point in this exercise, except that the county was pushing for this as a precursor to annexation. A developer had already given the mayor a plan for the annexation property that the mayor thought was just fine. He clearly was going to use the process as a way to legitimize a decision he had already made with no idea of really consulting the steering committee honestly. I was not comfortable with what appeared to me to be a sham of a process, so I declined. Another consultant took the job, and I had wondered whether I had been smart to give away work that another consultant was glad to have and told me so. This book helped me confirm that I had made the right decision.

I looked for weaknesses in Great Meetings!, but could not find much to report. It may be more difficult to use as a reference guide than The Facilitator¡¦s Handbook, but on the other hand, the chapter headings in the table of contents are clearly written and should be all you need to find the information you seek. Some of the warm-up exercises presented on pages 95 to 102 could appear lame to some groups or appear to trivialize the importance of the meeting if it involves a major conflict. On the other hand, the exercises are creative and fun. Perhaps, they would allow creative solutions to follow.

I found many more strengths than weaknesses. The book provides some good ideas on proper attitudes for facilitators on page 10. These are worth repeating:
X Servant of the group and its process
X Respect and compassion
X Positive
X Flexible
X Non-defensive
X Neutral
Other books may cover most of these, but I have seen few talk about compassion. This is something we all need to strive for, even (or especially) when there are difficult people in the group.

The book¡¦s discussion of group dynamics, while not an academically in depth analysis, is presented in a very accessible, comprehensive and easy-to-use way. For each group dynamic factor, the authors on pages 20-22 provide possible implications and/or interventions for facilitation. We are given insights into group dynamics, and then are provided tips on how to deal with them. This type of practical advice is carried over into the discussion of the various stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing. Many facilitation books discuss these stages. This book also provides specific tasks for the facilitator to carry out at each stage.

While I have said that this book is not like reference book, it does offer a few excellent checklists, like the meeting preparation checklist on pages 36-37 and the meeting location and facilities checklists on pages 48 and 49.

I also liked that the authors not only provide clear descriptions of problem solving tools, they tell which ones to use when, that is, when you are:
Defining and analyzing the problem
Visioning the ideal goal or preferred future state
Gathering information
Generating ideas
Clarifying, evaluating and narrowing options, and
Making the final decision
Planners could develop a whole process containing a series of meetings using this outline and the appropriate problem solving methods for each stage in the problem solving process.

Finally, I think the intervention case studies in Chapter 10 are very enlightening. They illustrate well how the various facilitation techniques can be used in plausible settings. These case studies would be particularly good reading for students who do not have much practical experience. Even seasoned facilitators might have an ¡§Ah! Ha!¡¨ moment, when they say, ¡§Oh that¡¦s what I could have done instead.¡¨

So, facilitators, read Great Meetings! one evening and enjoy a practical non-cookbook, non-academic guide to the art of facilitation.

Wonderful book.......2001-06-04

Wonderful book. As an organization consultant and facilitator I give it away to clients; sell it to people I'm training; gave it to my son and son-in-law to help them understand faciltation - and lots of other stuff as well.

It is much richer than just meeting management. Buy it! you'll find it really helpful.

Great Meetings is a Great Resource.......2000-05-12

For the past 22 years, I've been designing and conducting experiential training events. I have also been teaching and coaching others in this work. I have found Great Meetings!to be an invaluable resource. Dee Kelsey and Pam Plumb have managed to present the most important concepts of facilitation in a straight-forward and engaging way. I frequently turn to Great Meetings! as a reference in my work, I recommend it to others, and I give it as a gift to colleagues and friends. Great Meetings! filled a void and I am grateful to the authors for knowing it was neededand for bringing it into being.

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Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies examines the phenomenon of cultural tourism in its broadest sense. Drawing on post-modern perspectives, it emphasizes the importance of popular cultural tourism; alternative or ethnic tourism; and that of working class heritage and culture. Its main focus is the role cultural tourism plays in the globalization process and the impacts of global development on culture, traditions and identity, especially for regional, ethnic and minority groups. This text combines a rigorous and academic theoretical framework with practical case studies and real-life examples, initiatives and projects drawn from both the developed and developing world.

Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism

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Nezar Alsayyad
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The Production of Space

ASIN: 0415239419

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This book reintroduces the idea of the city as a territorial concept. The use of the built environment as a lens will place globalization debates in the specific context of national regional and local expression. This focus on the built environment provides a study of the city infrastructure in terms of economic, social and political issues as well as questions concerning identity.

Selling Destinations: Geography for the Travel Professional (Selling Destinations)

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Dr. Mancini is fantastic!
Excellent book for anyone interested in travel!
Excellent resource for the travel professional
The best geography book geared to the travel industry

Selling Destinations: Geography for the Travel Professional (Selling Destinations)
Marc Mancini
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Selling Destinations is the resource travel professionals from all sectors of the industry need to greatly enhance their knowledge of the major and secondary destinations around the world, and to increase sales. The sales-geography philosophy is supported by essential information that will help travelers make the most of their experiences. The author provides detailed information on travel to the destination, local modes of transportation, trip highlights, day trips, lodging options and allied destinations. You will find analysis as to why a person typically travels to the destination covered and the types of individuals who chose particular destinations, helping the travel professional make the right recommendations for the customer. Sales strategies focus on extra services that yield extra income for almost all travel professionals. The reader will find case studies and hypothetical situations that help them apply their newly gained knowledge.

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Dr. Mancini is fantastic!.......2006-06-02

Marc Mancini, Phd, is the travel industry's most well-known industry educator and speaker.

As a travel school student (and later as an Instructor at the same school) I watched his many travel education videos and read many of his textbooks. He clearly presents topics vital to the travel industry and explains in depth subjects which should be required reading for all professionals in the industry.

Now, even with over 13 years working in various segments of the highly diverse travel and tourism field, I find reading Dr. Mancini's books and viewing his entertaining and informative videos enhances my everyday performance.

I highly recommend Dr. Mancini's materials to all currently employed in the travel industry and those considering a career change!!!

Excellent book for anyone interested in travel!.......2006-04-24

I used this book at a travel school and kept it for reference for my own travels. It's a great source for travel ideas for anyone. A must buy!

Excellent resource for the travel professional.......2005-07-29

As a newcomer to the travel industry, this book has been a wonderful eyeopener. Even the most experienced travel professional can benefit from Mr. Mancini's knowledge of different places around the world.

The language is easy to understand, the information pertinent for the travel professional's needs, and layout is clear and manageable (not overbearing or textbook-like).

Mr. Mancini's reputation as an experienced professional in the travel industry is well acknowledged by his collegues and he is looked up to by newcomers, like myself.

"Selling Destinations" is a must have in every travel professionals resource library!

The best geography book geared to the travel industry.......2004-04-30

Most of the geography books available today have limited usefullness to a travel agent. Knowing the amount of bauxite a country produces doesn't help sell that region as a travel destination. In this book, Mancini details the important facts about the places that people travel to throughout the world.
In addition to the useful locater maps and detailed descriptions of the various cities and countries, Mancini includes little known facts and suggestions that travel agents can pass along to their customers. A first rate book.

Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City

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Superb contemporary history
The Bermuda-Shorts Triangle
Been There, Lived That, Right On!
Venice, the Tourist Maze

Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City
Robert C. Davis , and Garry R. Marvin
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.

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Superb contemporary history.......2006-11-10

This is an easy read, and a surprisingly thoughtful, careful, and broadly informative book. It dives deeply into the endless, diverse difficulties of modern life in Venice, but with excellent historical context. Its history of Carnival, and its revival, for example, is the best I've read. It's blemished by two or three uninteresting pages of symbolic/semiotic analysis, but these minor problems are vastly overwhelmed by impressive reporting, review and research on important issues of the day.

The Bermuda-Shorts Triangle.......2005-08-28

If the City of Venice (Italy) ever decides to build a model of Las Vegas, will the model include a little replica of Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel, itself a model of Venice? It's the kind of question I might address to the authors of Venice: The Tourist Maze, this entertaining and rewarding account of what may be the most touristed city in the history of the planet.

You might suppose there is nothing new in a critique of Venetian tourism. Venice first licensed tour guides in 1219 (and right there is a factoid I did not know until I read this book). Any number of others have left accounts of tourism in Venice, and quite a few have left accounts of accounts.

Davis and Marvin do a creditable job of trying not to replow old ground. There's almost no mention of Mary McCarthy, Jan Morris, Viscount Norwich, and other visitors who have done so much to inform and entertain. There's only a bit of Henry James; almost none of Proust and only a glancing reference to that most famous of all sex tourists, Thomas Mann's Gustav von Aschenbach. Instead, they give their primary attention to tourism as an activity, from the standpoint alike of the provider and the consumer. You might almost call it an account of "the enterprise of tourism," except this makes it sound, misleadingly, like yet one more business book.

There is a whiff of the lamp about the presentation, although it never gets overpowering: the chapter on the gondola is called "the floating signifier," which is, I guess, the kind of joke you are bound to get when academics try to have fun. They say they "take advantage" of a notion of one "Appadurai" (who?), although he never makes it to the bibliography. A more obvious progenitor is Dean MacCannell, whose "The Tourist" is one of those rare books to make fancy theory both interesting and plausible. A still better source, though surely unintended, would be the trdition o;f the mystery novel, where the hard-boiled detective sees the great city from the underside (indeed I am a little surprised that they don't say a word about Donna Leon, the Arthur Conan Doyle of the Venetian murder mystery).

But forget about the theory: some of their best stuff is the nuts-and-boats practical. There is an admirable sketch-history of the gondola and its monster offspring, the vaporetto. And I particularly liked their discussion of the economics of the "artisan." They explain that Murano glass "works" because the craft is showy and dramatic, but that Burano lace-making does not "work," because the craft is not showy, and because real Burano lace is prohibitively expensive. Papier-mache masks work especially well, because the price is right, and the technology is accessible to any schoolchild. By the way it appears that those fancy designer masks (confession: I have one on the living room wall) are no part of the tradition of Venice: masks at the /carnevale/ were for the most part mass-produced.

The climax comes, inevitably in a discussion of the other Venice, the Venetian Hotel at Las Vegas (but why can't I find it in the index?). They provide an entertaining account, appropriately fascinated and appalled, of the Venetian as the private obsession of Steve Adleson who has lavished on it (so they say) the sum of $1.5 billion. They seem not to have noticed that from a business standpoint, the Venetian seems to have been a rousing success. If tourists still flock to the real Venice, they seem to descend at a comparable rate on our little Venice in the desert.

Been There, Lived That, Right On!.......2004-10-02

As an inveterate traveler, I usually find that books about places I have visited leave me sorry I read them - travel guides are often so filled with tourist hype or stereotypical portrayals or out-dated analysis. But, this is not a travel guide: it is a thoughful and well-researched critique of Venice as both a tourist city and a (struggling to remain) actual city.

Over the years I have related to Venice in three ways: a member of the day-trip brigade (with two children in tow); a more serious tourist making a five day stay of it; a long-term (six month) resident in one of its working class neighborhoods. From all of those perspectives, this book speaks to my experiences.

But, more than a souvenir of my times there (see the excellent discussion of the role of souvenirs in a tourist city), this work has opened my mind to other ways to see my beloved city. I now see the city and its people with new eyes, for the authors' critical eyes and ideas challenged me to experience Venice once again anew.

If, as I would claim, I love Venezia, then I would also want to engage my heart and soul in the challenge they pose for the future of the city: not the worries about "sinking into the sea" but the worries about becoming "lost in the tourists."

And did you know that tourists have been coming here for over 500 years (yes, fellow Americans, that is before any tourists invaded North America), and that tacky souvenirs have been available for at least 300 years? Lots more to know as well as ponder in this work.

Venice, the Tourist Maze.......2004-07-19

A must for the regular visitor of Venice. Davis and Marvin show clearly how the historical center and the outskirts (!) are sacrifized to the needs of mass-tourism. They describe how the the city is transformed sytematically into a historical theme-park in which the remaining locals have only a stage-role. And 'resistance is useless': the inhabitants are able to slow, not to stop the process.
The book predicts an ominous future of this cultural heritage site. Food for thought.

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Mapping Tourism

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At first glance, the relationships among tourists, tourism maps, and the spaces of tourism seem straightforward enough: tourists use maps to find their way to and through the sites of history, culture, nature, or recreation represented there. Less apparent is how tourism maps and those using them construct such spaces and identities. As the essays in Mapping Tourism clearly demonstrate, the extraordinary interaction of work with leisure and the everyday with the exotic makes tourism maps ideal sites for exploring the contested construction of place and identity.

Construction sites in the "New Berlin," Alabama's civil rights trail, Québec City, a California ghost town, and Bangkok's sex trade are among the spaces the essays examined. Taken together, these essays allow us to see tourist space as it truly is: contested, ever changing, and replete with issues of power.

Contributors: Mary Curran, Eastern Connecticut State U; Dydia DeLyser, Louisiana State U; Owen J. Dwyer, Indiana U; John R. Gold, Oxford Brookes U; Margaret M. Gold, U of North London; Rob Shields; Karen E. Till, U of Minnesota. Stephen P. Hanna is assistant professor of geography at Mary Washington College. Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. is assistant professor in geography and the liberal studies program at California State University, Long Beach.

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Easy Reading and Great Information

I won't leave home without it!

Tourism: The Business of Travel and Atlas World Geography Package, 2005 CR Edition (3rd Edition)
Roy A. Cook , Laura J. Yale , Joseph J. Marqua , and Rand McNally
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Easy Reading and Great Information.......2000-03-14

Everything you always wanted to know about the tourism industry in one convenient source! This book is written with the serious reader in mind, but it's easy reading style will appeal to any curious mind. It covers everything from operating issues to fun facts that will help you be a more informed consumer. Once you pick it up, you won't want to put it down.

I won't leave home without it!.......2000-01-06

This book contains the most current and comprehensive coverage tourism industry on the market today. I enjoyed reading this book due to the excellent writing style of the authors. It is very well organized so finding topics of interest was no problem. It lists many citations to other sources and is well researched. The author's educational credentials and other accomplishments are listed (and are very impressive.) Cook and Yale have done extensive research and publishing in tourism. I find this work very credible and user-friendly. I know that I won't leave home without it!

Tourism And Regional Development: New Pathways (Ashgate Economic Geography Series) (Ashgate Economic Geography Series) (Ashgate Economic Geography Series)

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Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century

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John F. Sears
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An excellent book!

Tourism: Economic, Physical and Social Impacts
Alister Mathieson , and Geoffrey Wall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0582300614

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An excellent book!.......2002-06-17

This book provides an excellent literature review on tourism impacts. The text is quite readable but it is not superficial, as many texts in tourism management.

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