The book represents a state of the art review of key research on small firms in tourism in relation to European integration. It is, therefore, an essential resource for those engaged in research relating to tourism SMEs in transitional economies throughout the world. In addition, it is an essential purchase for the increasing number of students studying modules on small businesses as part of their final year undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes.
The overall aim in bringing together the various projects reported in this book is to enhance theoretical and practical understanding of quality management in tourism and hospitality. Taken together, the collection of work provides a benchmark of current knowledge, and examines the range of research methods being applied to further develop tourism and hospitality service management research. managing Tourism and Hospitality Services contains 28 chapters by international experts, and it is hoped that this book will stimulate new research questions by highlighting tensions and challenges in the area.
This e-book is quite useful for your favorite subjects of Geography, for the teachers teaching the subject or simply to look up. It provides maps of the natural world and you can click on the name of continent, country, region or name of the territory to access to content, or more to the list of countries and territories. Each country has information about the area, population, population projections to 2010, GDP, primary language, country, the capital, currency, the primary industry, resources, average life expectancy of men and women. Also in any image maps are linked, and they take you to more content.
Accusations have been made that tourism studies lacks a theoretical base. Such assertions are often based upon a lack of understanding of the relationship between the academic study of tourism and theories from the social sciences.
