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View Rights Portal— The accompanying book to the Kassel exhibition "Trost" ("Comfort") in spring 2023 — A book to counter desolation in these challenging times — What comfort is and why people need it "Comfort" is one of those words that has a somewhat tarnished reputation: cold comfort, false comfort, consolation prize, someone is not to be comforted ... "Action instead of comfort" is the maxim; "therapy instead of resignation" the variant. There is something old-fashioned about comfort. And still we long for it; people have always looked for "sources of comfort". In the midst of the climate and global political upheavals of our time, in the middle of a Ukraine war, a play recently celebrated at the Salzburg Festival is called, "Crazy for Consolation". People seek comfort because just helping is no longer helping; they are at the end of their abilities. "Comfort" would appear to be a gift in both senses of the word. But "comfort" is a mystery. Jean-Pierre Wils attempts to solve it in this essay.
Tourism is the world’s fastest growing industry, and impacts globally upon ecology, economies, peoples, cultures and the built environment. Development, therefore, must be sustainable and sympathetic in order to preserve the environment and culture it exploits. Despite sustainable tourism being an area of considerable recent interest, there has been no synthesis of the diverse considerations of sustainable tourism, and the language and terms particular to this subject. An important resource for researchers of tourism, this reference work defines and explains terms associated with considering and preserving the environment, host peoples, communities, cultures, customs, lifestyles and social and economic systems. ; Tourism is the world’s fastest growing industry and has global impacts. Development must be sustainable in order to preserve the environment and culture it exploits. This reference work defines terms associated with considering and preserving the environment, host peoples, communities, cultures, customs, lifestyles and social and economic systems. ; 1: Foreword2: Introduction3: Sustainable Tourism4: Alphabetical Entries5: References
Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It shows that British approaches to disaster 'relief' prioritised colonial control and 'fiscal prudence' ahead of the relief of the relief of suffering. In turn, that this pattern played out continuously in the long nineteenth century is a reminder that in the Caribbean the transition from slavery to waged labour was not a clean one. Times of crisis brought racial and social tensions to the fore and freedoms once granted, were often quickly curtailed.
This book studies the evolution of traditional Chinese New Year pictures in the last century and the reasons behind the evolution, hoping to provide some reference for the future of the current art form of New Year pictures and its development research. The book is divided into five parts. Starting with the causes that lead to the evolution of traditional New Year pictures and specific New Year pictures, the book studies and analyzes how the traditional language of New Year pictures was transformed and what kind of schema it evolved in a specific historical period.For the research on the development of specific historical periods, the author uses the method of longitudinal view to carry out the historical stages, and carries out horizontal comparative research and analysis on the situation of specific historical periods.This paper focuses on the author's doctoral dissertation, which has been downloaded nearly 2000 times and quoted nearly 100 times on Zhixin, providing an important foundation for relevant researchers.
This comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. Fully updated throughout, this new edition: -Covers forecasting, functional management and strategic planning; -Includes extra chapters to incorporate a wider spread of important topics such as sustainability, authenticity and crisis management; -Contains pedagogical features throughout, such as learning objectives, questions and case studies to aid understanding Now in its third edition, and reviewing the major factors affecting international tourism management, this well-established student resource provides an essential overview of strategic management for students and professionals in the tourism sector.
Als Außenstehender und anteilnehmender Augenzeuge zugleich erlebt Cees Nooteboom das Jahr 1989 in Berlin. Ende der Neunziger besucht der Autor erneut die nun nicht mehr geteilte Stadt. Und zehn Jahre später inspiziert er die Berliner Verhältnisse ein weiteres Mal. Der Mauerfall, die neunziger Jahre, das heutige Berlin: Der große niederländische Erzähler und Essayist Cees Nooteboom stellt seinen zum Klassiker gewordenen Berliner Notizen und der Rückkehr nach Berlin neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Texte zur Seite. Zwanzig Jahre bewegter Geschichte spiegeln sich in dieser Zusammenstellung von Essays, die von den Deutschen und ihrer Hauptstadt erzählen, klug, unprätentiös und sinnlich.
Der vorliegende Band bietet eine Auswahl seiner besten, zum Teil erstmals veröffentlichten Reisegeschichten aus Europa. Ein Meister der Nebenrouten, ein Spezialist für die unsichtbaren Gärten jenseits der hohen Mauern, ein Kenner der Räume, die hinter fest verschlossenen Türen warten – Cees Nooteboom führt mit Leidenschaft und Brillanz, sachkundig, leichtfüßig und selbstironisch durch Landschaften und Städte eines Kontinents.