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World Spatial Metadata Standards represents years of work by the ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission during the 1995-2003 ICA cycles. It consists of an Introduction and six Regional Summary chapters that describe the spatial metadata activities happening in Europe, North America, Asia/Pacific, Latin America,...

Comparing the major Pacific Rim cities of Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai, this book examines world city branding. Whilst all three cities compete on the world's stage for events, tourists and investment, they are also at the centre of distinct film traditions and their...

Many former mining areas have now lost their industrial function and are now turning to tourism for regional revitalization and community economic development. The transformation process of these industrial, and in some cases derelict, mining sites and landscapes into an area of interest for...

Author: Mariah FriendISBN-13: 9798993214917Publisher: Pocket Lamp PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2025Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.64d

Life, Love, and Lessons in the SkyA Flight Attendant's Inspiring Journey✨ Where altitude meets attitude, and every flight tells a story. ✨What happens when your office is 35,000 feet in the air and every day holds the possibility of wonder, challenge, and connection?For ten...

Dr. Patrick Treacy, a globally renowned, award-winning physician, invites you on an extraordinary journey in Destinations. With a career spanning diverse roles across continents, Treacy shares captivating stories of his encounters with vibrant cultures, from bustling cities to remote corners of the world. Blending...

On a cold winter day-3 January 1428-the overall commander of the Ming forces in Giao Chỉ (northern Vietnam) led a column of senior officers, soldiers, and civilians out through the gate of Đông Quan (in modern Hanoi) to begin their long journey back to...

"Motorcycle Mind takes you beyond the handlebars and into the fascinating cognitive and perceptual world of motorcycling-a ride that's more than just transportation; it's a transformative way of being. Unlike car drivers, motorcyclists become one with their machine, immersed in the road, the wind,...

“Souvenirs of Travel, Volume II” by Octavia Walton Le Vert offers a captivating glimpse into the world as seen through the eyes of a 19th-century American woman. This volume recounts Le Vert's travels and observations, detailing the social customs, landscapes, and historical sites she...

Looking for the ultimate guide to the beautiful Seychelles islands? Look no further! "Seychelles: A Guide to the Best Beaches, Activities, and Cultural Experiences" is the perfect travel companion for your trip to this paradise destination. With detailed information on the best beaches to...

I have always believed in the power of geography. The same idea, executed in two different places in the world will deliver completely different results. Moreover these geographical places carry with them an added wealth of context. I admire artists who made works in...

Unravelling Indian Culture: The Essence of Bharat takes the reader on a memorable journey through the rich and colourful tapestry of India's glorious cultural traditions and achievements.The carefully compiled and curated text spread over three volumes, is illumined by more than 1500 photographs. Such...

Author: Eric PimplerISBN-10: 1849694443ISBN-13: 9781849694445Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2013Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.64d

The IATBR conference proceedings series has a history of over 30 years and is widely read by researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the field of transportation and urban planning in general, and in travel behaviour analysis in particular. It is the only series...

Frameworks are the foundation of good scholarship. They structure, organize and communicate research, underpin individual studies and shape the field of study as a whole. This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic review and critique of frameworks for tourism research. Theoretical, conceptual, analytical...

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday...

People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to...

This book draws attention to the problems and issues surrounding fast-growing tourism in the highly sensitive wilderness areas of polar regions. The authors discuss mainly polar issues, but their conclusions and management techniques apply equally to all environmentally sensitive areas throughout the world.Author: Bernard...

This book looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. It draws on empirical work and a range of theoretical...

Most discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box. Visitor Experience Design is the first book of its kind to examine best practice in creating and delivering exciting and...

Destinations rely on regional strategies to support and enhance the tourism product through regional partnerships and integration. Integrated tourism is defined as tourism that is explicitly linked to the economic, social, cultural, natural and human structures of the region in which it occurs. Integrated...

This book is a collection of essays rooted in Randy Malamud's own lifetime of travel. Setting today's tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty, key drivers of...

"This book is a practical, step-by-step tutorial providing a complete reference guide to the setup, installation, and administration of ArcGIS Server technology. If you are a GIS user, analyst, DBA, or programmer with a basic knowledge of ESRI GIS, then this book is for...

Theories within tourism can be difficult, even confusing areas to understand. Developed from the successful Portuguese textbook Teoria do Turismo, Tourism Theory provides clear and thorough coverage of all aspects of tourism theory for students and researchers of tourism.Consisting of five sections and over...

Tourism continues to grow, and as the industry develops, it is important for researchers and practitioners to fully understand and examine issues such as sustainability, competiveness, and stakeholder quality of life in tourism centres around the world. Focusing on the unique perspective of island...

Tourism is a multi-billion dollar international industry and also one of the biggest users of Web technologies, constantly adopting innovative ideas to enhance its market penetration. Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities and User Interface Design provides cohesive coverage of cutting-edge e-tourism...

Compass Points: Finding a Mid-life Bearing on Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier is considered by many to be the longest endurance climb in the lower 48 states. This book is both a spiritual odyssey and adventure travelogue. It is the story of the author's two...

Geoinformatics is the science and technology of gathering, analyzing, interpreting, distributing, and using geospatial information. It encompasses a broad range of disciplines brought together to create a detailed but understandable picture of the physical world and our place in it. The Handbook of Research...

This book is intended for visitors to the tropics who are interested in learning about the local environment. It considers tropical island geology, coral reef formation and ecology, and the biology of marine fishes, reptiles, and mammals.Author: Frederic H. MartiniISBN-10: 154641519XISBN-13: 9781546415190Publisher: Createspace Independent...

I had always heard of our family curse. I didn't believe in such a thing, of course, but the previous generation had been highly influenced by it. The curse was this: our family would be extremely healthy for yearsno sudden deaths, tragedies or health...

Supported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings...

The limitations of satellites create a large gap in assistive directional technologies, especially indoors. The methods and advances in alternate directional technologies is allowing for new systems to fill the gaps caused by the limitations of GPS systems. Positioning and Navigation in Complex Environments...

Coordinates are integral building tools for GIS, cartography, surveying and are vital to the many applications we use today such as smart phones, car navigation systems and driverless cars. Basic GIS Coordinates, Third Edition grants readers with a solid understanding of coordinates and coordinate...

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.Author: Perry BurgessISBN-10: 1494091674ISBN-13: 9781494091675Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.Author: Dan WickendenISBN-10: 1494082764ISBN-13: 9781494082765Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.Author: Wing AndersonISBN-10: 1494072637ISBN-13: 9781494072636Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.60d

Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed...

Exploring the conceptual insights provided by the archipelagic 'twist' in the context of tourism principles, policies and practices, this volume draws on an international series of case studies to analyse best practice in branding, marketing and logistics in archipelago tourist destinations. The book asks...

A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and...

In Love with the Whirlwind tells how the author, Susan Davis finds that when you willingly seek friendship with God, He will lead you into an even more intimate relationship than you ever knew was possible. Davis tells how God shows up in her...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Derek PatmoreISBN-10: 1446543471ISBN-13: 9781446543474Publisher: Gadow...

This book is a collection of stories about eleven venues where the author has had special experiences. She hopes you will visit these places with her and discover the joys of independent travel.Author: Catherine Cat NesbitISBN-10: 1438918917ISBN-13: 9781438918914Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2008Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize:...

Daniel Knower sailed to California in 1849 with a letter of introduction from his cousin's husband, William L. Marcy, and twelve prefabricated frame houses he intended to sell in San Francisco. Knower talks about his real estate business, the gambling in the city, and...

William Brown escaped from slavery as a child. Brown was still considered a slave at the time of this novel's publication. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel and fiction. Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People...

Volume 4 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race:...

Gentlemen and ladies at the hotels, in London, generally dine about six or seven o'clock, each party or family by them-selves, in their own private parlor. One evening, about eight o'clock, just after the waiter had removed the cloth from the table where Rollo's...

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a...

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically. Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace...

Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding both to the increasing calls from within geography to develop a 'geographical aesthetics', and a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in conceptual and empirical questions around geoaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, as well as...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Douglas CarruthersISBN-10: 1406754684ISBN-13: 9781406754681Publisher: Carruthers...