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  • Medieval Imaginaries in Tourism, Heritage and the Media
    Jennifer Frost / Warwick Frost
    This book examines the pervading influence of medieval culture, through an exploration of the intersections between tourism, heritage, and imaginaries of the medieval in the media. ...
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    79,96 €

  • An Environmental History of Australian Rainforests until 1939
    Warwick Frost
    This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia’s rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use. ...
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    77,38 €

  • Royal Events
    Jennifer Laing / Warwick Frost
    This book is the first to explore royal events within the context of Events Studies, and takes an historical approach, examining the development of royal events through different periods.Themes emphasised include the ritual structure of events, the impact of the media and the influence of individual tastemakers.  ...
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    79,94 €

  • Commemorative Events
    Jennifer Laing / Warwick Frost
    This is the first book to provide an in - depth critical examination of commemorative events, particularly what they mean to societies and how they are used by governments as well as impacts on other stakeholders. The book fully explores these issues by reviewing all the major types of commemorative events including, nationhood or independence, Wars, battles, Famous people and ...
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    91,06 €

  • Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism
    Jennifer Laing / Warwick Frost
    This book explores this imagining of a mythic West through three key themes, travel, film and frontiers to offer new insight into how the imagination of the West and popular culture has influencing the construction of tourism. By doing it examines the paradoxes of the constructed imagination of the West such as it being an evocative frontier, constructed as a boundary zone betw...
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    106,90 €

  • Gastronomy, Tourism and the Media
    Gary Best / Jennifer Laing / Warwick Frost
    This book examines and analyses the connections between gastronomy, tourism and the media. It argues that in the modern world, gastronomy is increasingly a major component and driver of tourism and that destinations are using their cuisines and food cultures in marketing to increase their competitive advantage. It proposes that these processes are interconnected with film, tele...
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    51,80 €

  • Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism
    Jennifer Laing / Warwick Frost
    This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation for how modern day tourists view travel and themselves. Its scope ranges from...
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    51,72 €

  • Books and Travel
    Jennifer Laing / Warwick Frost
    The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multidisciplinary work provides a critical analysis of the inspirational and transformational role that books play in travel imaginings. Does reading a book encourage us to think of travel as exotic, adventurous, transformative, dangerous...
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    45,06 €

  • Zoos and Tourism
    Warwick Frost
    Zoos are important and popular tourist attractions. Spread around the world, they are typically located in major cities, with visitation levels comparable to other major attractions. Nature-based attractions constructed in artificial settings, they face the challenge of trying to balance potentially conflicting aims of conservation, education and entertainment. The best are con...
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    51,72 €