Arts, Entertainment and Tourism (eBook) : 7 results priced between £1.00 and £100.00

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 continually developing fresh and effective techniques on visitor interpretation and management, the worst highlight the manipulation...

This is the first book to specifically examine zoos as tourist attractions. Taking a global approach, it considers the multiple roles of zoos, particularly the...

"Arts, Entertainment and Tourism" is a pioneering text that, by focusing on the consumer, investigates the relationship between these three industries and how this relationship can be developed to its best competitive advantage. Issue-led, this text draws on appropriate disciplines rather than using one single approach, to examine issues in arts and entertainment within the framework of cultural tourism. Written to meet the needs of students studying on management courses in the arts, tourism and...

“My association since 1996 with the Edwin Mellen Press has been positive, encouraging, and inspirational. As a former Editor at the publisher Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, I have the experience to evaluate Mellen‘s staff procedures and management. … Subsequently, I received tenure at DePaul University partly due to [my book] and translation.”

A security director must have knowledge of criminal and civil law, risk and personnel management, budgeting and finance, and a host of other areas in order to be...

The 20th century saw a massive increase in the amount of leisure time and disposable income that the British population had. This was reflected in their sudden demand for more leisure opportunities. The public wanted bigger, better and more extreme leisure activities. Sports developed into national pastimes, as it became cheaper for people to travel around the country following football teams and rugby games. The 20th century was also the time of great technological change. It saw cinemas, music...