Tourism

Davidson, Rob

Business & Money

Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Pitman

An introductory text which covers the basics of travel and tourism, providing a very useful background to students taking any tourism qualification below degree level. Each chapter contains plenty of stimulus material drawn from a variety of sources: numerous diagrams, figures and photographs as well as exercises, assignments and role plays to encourage an investigative approach to the subject. The text is organised into eleven well structured chapters covering all aspects of travel and tourism including: definitions of tourism; a brief history of tourism; travel and transport, accommodation and catering; leisure, recreation and business facilities; tourism promotion at home and abroad; the geography of tourism; the impact of tourism on the environment, economy, culture and community; and working in the industry.

Economics

Longman

For all undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma students of Travel and Tourism this book provides a comprehensive, in-depth study of the business tourism market worldwide, an analysis of the relevant theoretical issues and a detailed investigation of the practice of managing and organising facilities for the business travel and tourism market. Both theoretical and practical issues are illustrated by extensive case-studies and end-of-chapter discussion questions allow students to test their knowledge and understanding. Readership: A core text for Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Diploma students following courses in Business Travel and Tourism. Suitable for advanced level courses in business travel offered by the Guild of British Travel Agents and practitioners involved in the distribution and/or supply of business travel and tourism services. Supplementary reading for undergraduate Hospitality Management courses.

Business Travel: Conferences, Incentive Travel, Exhibitions, Corporate Hospitality, and Corporate Travel

Cope, Beulah

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events covers key areas in marketing and promotion, such as: * Trends and issues in destination and venue marketing * Strategic marketing planning, ROI and strategy evaluation * Destination and venue selling strategies * Future challenges, opportunities and supply-side developments * Author commentary and international case studies identifies 'best practice' in marketing and promotion * Pulls together in one volume the latest ideas, research, and current and future trends * Chapter outlines, objectives, learning outcomes, case studies, conclusions with Q&amp;As, further reading and weblinks encourage progressive learning

Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events (Events Management)

Rogers, Tony

Routledge

Field Observations, the debut fiction collection from Rob Davidson, contains stories about people who find themselves at difficult turning points in their lives—times when they are faced with hard choices, broken promises, and the fear of self-destruction. Davidson's characters are diverse: a retired math teacher, an auto repair worker, a technical writer, a nurse living overseas. What connects them is the way Davidson renders each character with essential human dignity, regardless of his or her flaws. This collection addresses such contemporary concerns as love relationships, cultural interaction, divorce, aging, and alcoholism in a lively, sometimes offbeat way.In "Inventory"—winner of a 1997 AWP Intro Journals Award—the young narrator, fresh out of the army, struggles to take stock of his civilian life and assume responsibility for himself. An estranged wife, in "You Have to Say Something," competes for attention with her husband's manic approach to work, finding both solace and frustration in a new friend, a compulsive gift-giver. "A Private Life" renders a young Peace Corps volunteer grappling with her loneliness in a foreign country, with a sense of exposure and violation. In "What We Leave Behind," a college dropout and onetime golf prodigy finds himself dissatisfied with his current career as a vacuum cleaner salesman; after a quirky encounter with a client, he finds hope for a new beginning.A recurrent motif in the stories is the presentation of characters who either tend to observe, even spy on, others, or who have the sense that they themselves are being watched. The notion of a passive observer extends to several characters who seem to treat their own lives as subject for observation rather than action, frequently persisting in patterns of behavior that are clearly destructive.Rendered in clean, smooth prose with sharply observed details and driven by Davidson's fine ear for dialogue, these stories poignantly capture the difficult in-between states that trouble people every day. Fully defined and evocatively written, this collection addresses important real-life issues and concerns.

Field Observations: Stories (Volume 1)

Literature & Fiction

United States

University of Missouri

Henry James (1843–1916) and William Dean Howells (1837–1920) are best known for the central roles they played as nineteenth-century American novelists, penning such classics as James’s Portrait of a Lady and Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham. Their importance as literary critics, however, has been underplayed for decades. Although certain aspects of James’s and Howells’s criticism have been carefully considered—James’s “Prefaces” and Howells’s Criticism and Fiction, for example—no scholar has previously undertaken a comprehensive comparative study of their respective critical oeuvres. In The Master and the Dean, Rob Davidson presents the first book-length study of James’s literary criticism to be published since the early 1980s and the first-ever book-length study of Howells’s criticism. Considering Howells’s commonly accepted position among scholars as the most influential American literary critic of the period, such a study is long overdue.            Beginning with a detailed examination of the European and domestic sources that led James and Howells toward realism, Davidson examines the interrelationships between the two writers, with special emphasis on their diverging aesthetic concerns and attitudes toward the market and audience, their beliefs concerning the moral value of fiction and the United States as a literary subject, and their various writings about each other. A rigorous, intertextual reading of their work as critics reveals both deeper rifts and more intimate similarities between the two writers than have been recognized previously. Of special note is Davidson’s careful attention to the frequently overlooked final two decades of Howells’s career.            This close look at the lesser-known critical work of James and Howells will appeal both to scholars of the period and to anyone seeking an exceptional introduction to a crucially important era of American literary criticism.

The Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells (Volume 1)

History & Criticism

Henry James (1843-1916) and William Dean Howells (1837-1920) are best known for the central roles they played as nineteenth-century American novelists, penning such classics as James's Portrait of a Lady and Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham. Their importance as literary critics, however, has been underplayed for decades. Although certain aspects of James's and Howells's criticism have been carefully considered-James's "Prefaces" and Howells's Criticism and Fiction, for example-no scholar has previously undertaken a comprehensive comparative study of their respective critical oeuvres. In The Master and the Dean, Rob Davidson presents the first book-length study of James's literary criticism to be published since the early 1980s and the first-ever book-length study of Howells's criticism. Considering Howells's commonly accepted position among scholars as the most influential American literary critic of the period, such a study is long overdue. Beginning with a detailed examination of the European and domestic sources that led James and Howells toward realism, Davidson examines the interrelationships between the two writers, with special emphasis on their diverging aesthetic concerns and attitudes toward the market and audience, their beliefs concerning the moral value of fiction and the United States as a literary subject, and their various writings about each other. A rigorous, intertextual reading of their work as critics reveals both deeper rifts and more intimate similarities between the two writers than have been recognized previously. Of special note is Davidson's careful attention to the frequently overlooked final two decades of Howells's career. This close look at the lesser-known critical work of James and Howells will appeal both to scholars of the period and to anyone seeking an exceptional introduction to a crucially important era of American literary criticism.

The Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells

Fiction. "Davidson is a wonderful writer, a real find. There are a lot of writers out there who can put a story together and make the surfaces of their work gleam. What is special about Davidson's stories is something else altogether. He has the ability to make you care deeply about his characters. They become, for all their occasional quirkiness, as real as the folks next door."—Steve Yarbrough"The superlative story 'Criminals' is layered and old-fashioned, if there is such a thing. It immediately distinguishes itself by being patient and operating by way of the reluctant voice. [Davidson] is tolerant of the real ambiguities we muddle through to be human. 'Criminals' is a good big story and I recommend its nuanced pleasures to your healthy attention spans."—Ron Carlson

The Farther Shore

Bear Star Press

Business Events

The dynamic and fast-expanding business events sector plays a vital role in the professional lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide by providing settings in which they can meet for the purposes of negotiation, deliberation, motivation, the dissemination of knowledge, and the celebration of their greatest career-related achievements. This book provides a sound practical and theoretical context for the study of this subject by covering, in depth, all categories of business-related events including corporate meetings, association conferences, political events, incentive travel, exhibitions, corporate hospitality, awards ceremonies and SMERF (social, military, educational, religious and fraternal) gatherings. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to reflect recent developments in business events, including: <ul>
<li>Five new chapters on business events destination marketing, knowledge, sustainability, ethics and technology</li> <li>New ‘It’s my job’ voice boxes offering practical insights from people employed in the business events industry</li> <li>A wide range of new case studies illustrating business events throughout the world, including emerging business events destinations such as Russia and the Middle East </li>
</ul>
Written in an accessible yet analytical manner, Business Events is essential reading for all students of events, tourism and hospitality management.

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Tourism

Tourism

Tourism

Business Travel: Conferences, Incentive Travel, Exhibitions, Corporate Hospitality, and Corporate Travel

Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events (Events Management)

Field Observations: Stories (Volume 1)

The Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells (Volume 1)

The Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells

The Farther Shore

Business Events