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Gringo Gulch : sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica by Rivers-Moore, Megan
Call Number: HQ154 .S26 R58
ISBN: 9780226373386
Publication Date: 2016
The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San José, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men—men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor. But in Gringo Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more nuanced story, demonstrating that all the actors intimately entangled in the sex tourism industry—sex workers, sex tourists, and the state—use it as a strategy for getting ahead.

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The Business and Management of Convention and Visitor Bureaus : A Global Approach by Krzysztof Celuch
ISBN: 9781911396819
Publication Date: 2019
Meetings are a major source of revenue for the countries and cities and that host them. But competition to win meetings and events is growing fast as new Convention and Visitors Bureaus are opening up all over the world and existing are expanding and modernizing their offer in order to increase their share of this market.However, in cities and countries busy sales and marketing staff, politicians and local authorities often struggle to keep up to date with the many tools and techniques that can help them bring business to their locations. New staff in particular often feel the need for a structured, comprehensive guide to sources of business for their destination as well as detailed instruction on the most effective ways of bringing meetings and events to fill their meetings spaces, restaurants, venues and create loyal clients. The Business and Management of Convention and Visitor Bureaus - a global approach is the solution to these issues. It provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the wide range of techniques required by sales and marketing staff to effectively win meetings and events business for their destination. Accessible, global and informative, this is essential reading for all future business event and conference managers, destination managers as well clients and meeting planners.
Heritage and Tourism : Places, Imageries and the Digital Age by Linde Egberts
ISBN: 9789462985353
Publication Date: 2018
Heritage and tourism mutually reinforce each other, with the presentation of heritage at physical sites mirrored by the ways heritage ispresented on the internet. This interdisciplinary book uses humanities and social sciences to analyse the ways that heritage is brandedand commodified, how stakeholders organise place brands, and how digital strategies shape how visitors appreciate heritage sites. The book covers a wide geographic diversity, offering the reader the chance to find cross-cutting themes and area-specific features of the field.
War Tourism : Second World War France From Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage by Bertram M. Gordon
ISBN: 9781501715877
Publication Date: 2018
As German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carried cameras and behaved as'naïve tourists.'One of the first things Hitler did after his victory was to tour occupied Paris, where he was famously photographed in front of the Eiffel Tower.Focusing on tourism by German personnel, military and civil, and French civilians during the war, as well as war-related memory tourism since, War Tourism addresses the fundamental linkages between the two. As Bertram M. Gordon shows, Germans toured occupied France by the thousands in groups organized by their army and guided by suggestions in magazines such as Der Deutsche Wegleiter fr Paris [The German Guide for Paris]. Despite the hardships imposed by war and occupation, many French civilians continued to take holidays. Facilitated by the Popular Front legislation of 1936, this solidified the practice of workers'vacations, leading to a postwar surge in tourism.After the end of the war, the phenomenon of memory tourism transformed sites such as the Maginot Line fortresses. The influx of tourists with links either directly or indirectly to the war took hold and continues to play a significant economic role in Normandy and elsewhere. As France moved from wartime to a postwar era of reconciliation and European Union, memory tourism has held strong and exerts significant influence across the country.

Off the beaten path! Something for everyone.

The darker side of travel : the theory and practice of dark tourism by Richard Sharpley
Call Number: G155 .A1 D33
ISBN: 9781845411152
Publication Date: 2009
Over the last decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile while, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to establish a more informed relationship between the theory and practice of dark tourism. This book meets the undoubted need for such a volume by providing a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism.
Holidays in the danger zone : entanglements of war and tourism by Debbie Lisle
Call Number: G156 .L47
ISBN: 9780816698554
Publication Date: 2016
Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday interactions between two seemingly opposed worlds: warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle shows how a tourist sensibility shapes the behavior of soldiers in war—especially the experiences of Western military forces in “exotic” settings. This includes not only R&R but also how battlefields become landscapes of leisure and tourism.
Outpatients : the astonishing new world of medical tourism by Sasha Issenberg
Call Number: RA793.5 .I88
ISBN: 9780990976387
Publication Date: 2016
Today more people travel to Hungary for dental care than to any other country in Europe. The fascinating story of how Hungary became Europe's dental chair is a case study in medical tourism, which has become a growing multi-billion-dollar industry -- exploding in places as varied as India, Brazil, Korea, and Costa Rica -- as countries rewrite laws to compete for patients.
The sex tourism handbook : bed-hopping in Bangkok, Rio, Prague, and around the world by Joe Diamond
Call Number: HQ444 .D53
ISBN: 9781626361195
Publication Date: 2014
This is the first book to explore the emergence of the online sex tourist subculture and its mounting impact on the world's flesh trade. The author, Joe Diamond, is himself an enthusiastic sex tourist and an expert. In this groundbreaking travelogue, he traverses the globe to put sex tourism under the microscope.

Stepping in to the Library's Collections

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ProTip: Everything begins here: library.centennialcollege.ca

It's time to activate Plan B, and open up the E-Resources tab.

If you think of the Internet as a pile, the library, on the other hand, is a collection. We specialize in collecting quality resources for student success. The E-Resources tab is your gateway to selecting and entering the name of the resource(s) you need.

There are several points of entry into the collections: Search Keywords box, A-Z list, Media Type filter, and the School List filter.

ProTip: The Search Keywords box allows you to search for a collection, a resource. It is not designed to search within the collection.

Once you select a collection (Business Source Complete, for example) you are almost ready to work!

Not sure what's inside a collection (database)? Before opening the database, each collection comes with a short description of what you can expect to find. For example:

Business Source Complete

Full text business scholarly journals, magazines, country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. Includes full text of the Harvard Business Review, and Datamonitor country, company, and industry reports.

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Because many of our journals and magazines are collected together in aggregated databases, adding and mixing several titles and publishers, searching is usually a matter of entering words and phrases that describe your topic, at least in the beginning.

(Begin here, just to get the hang of it!)

You can explore the magic of these selected collections:

Business Source Complete

SAGE Premier

Taylor & Francis eJournals

Academic Search Premier

Research Library

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection

Finding that elusive journal title

From time to time, a professor, here and there, may recommend a favorite journal or magazine, suggesting a title that is perfect for your research report! With over 150 discrete collections within our online library, how will you ever find it?

The short answer is to summon the magazine/journal searching tool, with the obvious name: Full Text Journals. This tool, located on the library's homepage, below the Library Guides link, directly links to individual magazines/journals within our collection, no matter which database(s) it resides in.

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Example: Take a leisurely walk through the issues of the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Journal of Travel Research

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Tourism Industry Association of Canada
TIAC is responsible for representing tourism interests at the national level, and its advocacy work involves promoting and supporting policies, programs and activities that will benefit the sector's growth and development.

After Graduation!

Employability in Travel and Tourism
The travel and tourism industry is a major employer both in the UK and abroad. There are many career options and pathways available. This film looks at employment and employability within the industry. Drawing on the expertise of five interviewees from different professions and organizations, as well as street interviews, it explores career opportunities in the industry, the human resources function, recruitment and selection, training, appraisals and employee rights and responsibilities. It is an ideal resource for any prospective employee in the travel and tourism industry.

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