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Finding Your Feet: The how-to guide to hiking and adventuring
by Rhiane Fatinikun'I hope this book inspires you to kick down barriers, go on adventures and empower the people around you to do the same. That's how we create change.' Rhiane Fatinikun knows just what an impact a connection with nature can have on your life. Finding Your Feet is Rhiane's essential guide to exploring the British countryside for Black women and women who often feel unsafe in remote places, offering practical tips, favourite walks and routes from across the UK, showcasing the best of nature's beauty. Read on for compelling accounts of Rhiane's own experiences, inspiring interviews, handy info boxes and stunning photography.This user-friendly toolkit of a book covers: - Choosing the right kit - Understanding a paper mapNavigating, and what to do if you get lost - Being responsible and staying safe - Different types of hikes, from the local park to night time, and coastal to mountain - Favourite British walks with handy maps and full descriptions of the routes - Adventures along Scotland's iconic Glencoe Pass, around the spectacular Wales Coastal Path and through Cornwall's wild landscapes to Land's End.The outdoors is a powerful space, and everyone has the right to enjoy it. Finding Your Feet is the perfect 'how to' guide to doing just that.
Solo Travel, Tourism and Loneliness: A Critical Sociology (Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality)
by Maximiliano E. Korstanje Hugues SéraphinThis timely and topical book presents a unique critical exploration of the sociology of single travel and theory of consumption in relation to loneliness and tourism.Logically structured and interdisciplinary in scope, this book introduces disrupting questions around the convergence of the post-modern self in relation to solo travel post-pandemic, with chapters exploring topics such as romantic loneliness, the benefits and drawbacks of single travel in a globalized world, the influence of technology on solo travel and the impact of sex tourism. International case studies and examples are given throughout and the book is richly illustrated and data-led. The volume looks to the future, exploring relevant trends and the development of new products and services in the next few years.This volume is a pivotal resource for students, scholars and academics with an interest in tourism and mobility studies, international relations, development economics, crisis management, sociology and public policy. The book may also be of professional interest to practitioners and policymakers dedicated to tourism sociology and sociology of tourism consumption.
The Cove: A Cornish Haunting
by Beth LynchFor over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound up with idyllic family holidays; as she grows older, however, her sense of connection with the place grows deeper and more complicated. This slippery interface of land and sea - a site of sheer edges and ledges, peculiar rock formations and eroding, tumbling slate - becomes her childhood refuge from anxiety and school bullying.Around the time of her parents' deaths, strange things start to happen in and around the cove, and Lynch is left wondering how well she really knows this minute section of coast that draws her so ineluctably. Is it the cove, or is it her? What secrets does the cove have to share? Is she safer staying away? Unfolding through a medium of salt and slate, the elemental indifference of Atlantic Cornwall, The Cove is a lyrical meditation on being a revenant, on haunting and being haunted. Through encounters with quarrymen, wartime women and a enigmatic archaeologist - along with JMW Turner, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas and Emma Hardy - Lynch contemplates what happens when our deepest fears materialise, reflecting on mortality and the nuanced ways in which we take leave of our dead. She explores the profound impacts of change - in ourselves, in places and in the transformative dance between the two.
Solo Travel, Tourism and Loneliness: A Critical Sociology (Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality)
by Maximiliano E. Korstanje Hugues SéraphinThis timely and topical book presents a unique critical exploration of the sociology of single travel and theory of consumption in relation to loneliness and tourism.Logically structured and interdisciplinary in scope, this book introduces disrupting questions around the convergence of the post-modern self in relation to solo travel post-pandemic, with chapters exploring topics such as romantic loneliness, the benefits and drawbacks of single travel in a globalized world, the influence of technology on solo travel and the impact of sex tourism. International case studies and examples are given throughout and the book is richly illustrated and data-led. The volume looks to the future, exploring relevant trends and the development of new products and services in the next few years.This volume is a pivotal resource for students, scholars and academics with an interest in tourism and mobility studies, international relations, development economics, crisis management, sociology and public policy. The book may also be of professional interest to practitioners and policymakers dedicated to tourism sociology and sociology of tourism consumption.
Dream. Explore. Discover.: Inspiring Quotes to Spark Your Wanderlust
by Summersdale PublishersStay wild and free There’s a whole world out there just waiting to be explored. Spark your wanderlust with this little book, packed with beautiful quotes and affirmations from the world’s greatest travellers and adventurers, and be inspired to dream, explore and discover!
Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys
by Tom ChesshyreTom Chesshyre has made it his mission to experience the world through train travel – on both epic and everyday rail routes, aboard every type of train, from colonial steam locomotives to high-tech bullet trains. Join him on a whistle-stop tour of some of the most exhilarating journeys around the globe, from Sri Lanka to Tehran and beyond.
Artificial Intelligence for Smart Technology in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
by Amit Verma Vinod Kumar Shukla Jean Paolo G. LacapThis informative volume on the shifting requirements of the hospitality service industry aims to incorporate smart information technology into tourism services. A resource written specifically for tourism service industry professionals, it provides a focused approach to introducing Industry 4.0-related technologies. It explains how artificial intelligence can support a company’s strategy to revolutionize the business by using smart technology most effectively. The chapters explore artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, blockchain, and automation and robotics in the hospitality industry.
Artificial Intelligence for Smart Technology in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
This informative volume on the shifting requirements of the hospitality service industry aims to incorporate smart information technology into tourism services. A resource written specifically for tourism service industry professionals, it provides a focused approach to introducing Industry 4.0-related technologies. It explains how artificial intelligence can support a company’s strategy to revolutionize the business by using smart technology most effectively. The chapters explore artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, blockchain, and automation and robotics in the hospitality industry.
No Fixed Abode: A Journey Through Homelessness from Cornwall to London
by Charlie CarrollCharlie’s teaching contract came to an end and he found himself with no job and no money, but all the time in the world. He decided to travel from Cornwall to London in remarkably cheap way – as a tramp, on foot. With a mix of travel and current affairs writing, No Fixed Abode sheds light on a side of the UK few ever see from within.
Son of Serge Bastarde: Mayhem in the Antiques Markets of Rural France
by John DummerJohn's life as an antiques dealer in France is decidedly less colourful as his unscrupulous partner in crime, Serge Bastarde, marries and moves to Martinique. But he returns, his personal life in tatters. What follows is a madcap adventure which sees John striking deals with the Romanian 'mafia¡' while Serge rides an emotional roller coaster.
Mud, Sweat and Gears: Cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats (Via the Pub)
by Ellie BennettAs Ellie’s fiftieth birthday approaches, her ambitions of a steady income, a successful career and an ascent of Everest seem as far away as ever. So when her best friend Mick suggests a cycle from Land’s End to John o’Groats, she agrees. But as they sample local beer along the way, she wonders if they’ll ever make it to the finish line…
Tourist Destinations According to Stakeholder Strategies: From Clusters to Local Tourist Systems (ISTE Invoiced)
by Philippe Violier Pierre Louart Jérôme PiriouTourist destinations are subject to the strategies and interactions of the people who reside in them, with complementary and sometimes conflicting interests. To ensure that these destinations remain competitive, Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) are tasked with stimulating cooperation between all partners (independents, organizations, networks). Tourist Destinations According to Stakeholder Strategies is based on a series of case studies that are analyzed and discussed from a dual geographical and managerial perspective. This enables us to extract operational typologies and propose recommendations for actors in the tourism sector. The authors have opted for an original and innovative name for the object of study, "Localized Tourism Systems" (LTS), thus emphasizing the triple aim of territorialization, tourism activities and actors that interact together in collective projects.
The Contemporary Hotel Industry: A People Management Perspective (Palgrave Advances in Managing and Marketing Tourism, Hospitality, and Events)
by Charalampos Giousmpasoglou Evangelia MarinakouThis book provides a detailed account of the global hotel industry with a focus on managerial work and people management. A comprehensive understanding of the managers' work from a people management perspective is essential to the success of hotel operations; however, this is an area that has been under-researched.Based on existing literature and extensive research carried out by the authors over fifteen years, the book explores the different aspects of managerial work in global hotel industry settings and covers topics such as general management, leadership, education and training, skills and competencies, crisis management, and managing diversity. The book’s findings suggest that hotel managers should adopt a people-centric management and leadership style while at the same time maintaining operational efficiency.A unique book in terms of scale and depth, it offers useful insights into both theoretical and practical perspectives.