Tonyversity LIVE
Well, the name has stuck since my very first website in 1995, so it seemed inevitable that when I left a permanent post in academia I would set up the ‘Tonyverse’ for myself. With considerable thanks to the efforts and technical wizzardry of my very good friend, M. Haider Alleg, www.tonyversity.com is now launched as my business website. You may also find the odd article or news item on my Tonyversity Blog to be of interest. Not only do I teach as a vacataire, but I have my own business engaging in: business management training professional development coaching higher levels of applied business English to key managers working the Anglophone markets a hybrid of business English and management...
Why are states interested in Tourism?
Good question – glad you asked…… well, you were going to, weren’t you? Well, if politicians and industry leaders are being honest, it is not (as the World Tourism Organisation once put it) for ‘spiritual reasons’ i.e. the non-material benefits to the tourist….. rather Tourism is considered to be a means to an end rather than an end in itself: governments want to see things like: new jobs created and existing jobs sustained …. (reducing government unemployment expenditure) rural communities sustained by tourism activity and local expenditure tourism income to local, regional and national services like: heritage, sports, arts, culture and systems like transport (again reducing government expenditures) improved international image [do you get much of an image...
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...
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...
Feedback: Exercise 4 French Ministries…...
Well… here’s my list of potential government Ministires in France which might just be directly involved in influencing the macroeconomic performance of Tourism (positively or indeed negatively!!!) Tm Macro Quiz French Mins And Tm 4b View more documents from...
About Me
Here is the link to my professional site personal profile if you are that desperate to know a bit about me, my career and life and thoughts in general! Surprising how many actually read it!