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The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China's rising economic and military strength, North Korea's nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center of...
1010) Roppongi crossing: the demise of a Tokyo nightclub district and the reshaping of a global city
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Series
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Series
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On July 22, 2011 a 32 year old far right activist clothed as a police officer opened fire on a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya Island in Norway, slaughtering 69 people and maiming many more. The vast majority of the victims were between 14 and 19 years of age. He also placed bombs in a government building in Oslo, killing 8 and wounding others. In a 1,500 page manifesto in English posted on the internet hours before the massacres in which he referred...
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Since 2017, the term 'overtourism' has become the buzzword for destinations suffering the strain of tourism. It is a critical issue for the 21st Century and beyond, and to date has only been examined from a tourism industry perspective. This book takes a different stand by investigating overtourism from a tourism education perspective. The recent global COVID-19 pandemic was expected to halt travel and, arguably, overtourism. However, industry experts...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Based on an international conference held in 2018, this book explores the growing backlash by resident populations around the world against excessive numbers of tourists in their countries, arriving by cruise ship or airplane: an urgent issue that may be reframed as a larger need to reform globalization. Overtourism is closely connected to advances in mass mobility technology, growing wealth in former developing nations, and ever-faster connectivity...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"By understanding tourist destinations through the lens of national identity, the tourist may develop a deeper appreciation of the destination. Further, tourism marketers and planners may be better equipped to promote and manage the destination, particularly with regard to expectations of the potential visitor. Tourism and National Identity is the first volume to fully explore the relationship between tourism and national identities and the multiple...
