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      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2018

        World Heritage Sites

        Tourism, Local Communities and Conservation Activities

        by Takamitsu Jimura

        Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, with World Heritage Site designations increasing year-on-year. This book reviews the important interrelations between the industry, local communities and conservation work, bringing together the various opportunities and challenges for different destinations. World Heritage status is a strong marketing brand, and proper heritage management and effective conservation are vital, but this tourism must also be developed and managed appropriately if it is to benefit a site. As many sites are located in residential areas, their interaction with the local community must also be carefully considered. This book: - Reviews new areas of development such as Historic Urban Landscapes, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Memory of the World and Global Geoparks. - Includes global case studies to relate theory to practice. - Covers a worldwide industry of over 1,000 cultural and natural heritage sites. An important read for academics, researchers and students of heritage studies, cultural studies and tourism, this book is also a useful resource for professionals working in conservation, cultural and natural heritage management.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2017

        Tour Operators and Operations

        Development, Management and Responsibility

        by Jacqueline Holland, David Leslie

        With a focus on the creation and distribution of packaged holidays, this text covers the fundamentals of business and the relationship between tour operators and destinations. With particular reference to the sustainability of both parties, it reviews the impacts and influences of tour operations and practices on destinations within the overriding context of tour operator responsibility. It addresses the entirety of this key component of the tourism sector, and reflects the shift in recent years from traditional 'sun, sea and sand' holiday to more bespoke packages. Taking into account tour operators as a growing factor among the major emergent economies of the world, this book is: - The first textbook to provide such in-depth content of tour operators and operations. - Written by authors with industry, research and teaching experience. - A wealth of information regarding popular eco, nature and adventure trips, as well as myriad niche and special interest products. Full of international and highly topical case studies, exercises and discussion questions, Tour Operators and Operations: Development, Management and Responsibility is a fundamental text for students of tourism.

      • Memoirs

        Across the Wide Zambezi

        A Doctor's Life in Africa

        by Warren Durrant

        A British GP, 39, unmarried, looking for something more exciting than signing sick-notes in Wallasey, sees advert in The British Medical Journal for a medical officer to a timber firm in West Africa. At the London office finds he is the only applicant. Flies out to Ghana, is taken up country to the town where he finds he is to be the sole doctor in area as big as an English county and thousands of people. He will do everything from major surgery to public health. This is to be the pattern of his life for the next twenty-two years. Work described and life of people, white and black: many characters. After 18 months returns home. Discovers Africa is in his blood. Seeks further training in a larger hospital. Goes to a mine hospital in Zambia. Life and people described. Many characters. Safari to East Africa. Returns home after two years through Congo. Decides to settle in Africa. Goes to Rhodesia. Further training. Appointed district medical officer. Civil war. Learns war surgery. Gunfight at the Troutbeck Inn. Peace. Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe. Romance. Marries matron. They have two children. Family life. Decides no future for children in Zimbabwe. Returns to England with family. This book describes much medical experience but is above all a human story, with many adventures and characters. WD.

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