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Tourism, New Technologies and Alsace

[A draft article I wrote for the British Tourism Society focusing upon the point that it is the contexts and cultures in which ICT is to be embedded which determines how it looks, feels, is used and the degree to which it is successful rather than the technology itself.] Le Tourisme et les Nouvelles Technologies: TNT – just about says it all, really – it has considerable explosive potential. However, as ever, it is not technology that is the important issue here, so much as the context in which it is employed; a realisation that dawned upon me most emphatically on the evening of my 17th birthday on the old Homesley Aerodrome in the New Forest some thirty-odd...

Tourism, New Technologies and Alsace
posted on: 2 Sep 2009 | author: tjolley

Resources for Macroeconomics and Tourism...

There are any number of good Macroeconomics texts no doubt in just about all the mother tongues spoken on LPHT.  Please do not forget these: the basic principles of macroeconomics are very well covered in traditional sources you will find in your library. The same is true of Tourism: there are a wealth of Tourism and Tourism Management textbooks in English and French.  ‘For my money’ the three best of the best are the following: Tourism Principles and Practice (2005 3rd Edition) .  Cooper, Fletcher et.al.   FT Prentice Hall. The Business of Tourism (2006)  Holloway,C.  FT Prentice Hall The Business of Tourism Management (2006)  Beech,J & Chadwick,C.  FT Prentice Hall [No, I assure you, I am not...

Resources for Macroeconomics and Tourism
posted on: 2 Sep 2009 | author: tjolley