Cities and Visitors: Regulating Tourists, Markets and City Space (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
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    		Cities and Visitors: Regulating Tourists, Markets and City Space (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
    Lily M. Hoffman , Susan S. Fainstein , and Dennis R. Judd
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    Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success
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      Carolyn Widner Ward , and Alan E. Wilkinson
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      Mastering Civic Engagement: A Challenge to Museums
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        ASIN: 0931201810

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        This call to action from AAM's Museums & Community Initiative challenges museums to pursue their potential as active, visible players in community life. An opening essay urges museums to reinvigorate their civic role and purposes and offers guideposts for inquiry and transformation. Other essays and reflections - from museum professionals and community practitioners - offer food for thought on the complex process of changing the terms of engagement between communities and museums. See also A Museums & Community Toolkit.
        Development and Management of Visitor Attractions
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          		Development and Management of Visitor Attractions
          John Swarbrooke
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          ASIN: 0750651695

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          Now in its second edition, the successful 'Development and Management of Visitor Attractions' has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest issues in this ever-changing area of tourism.

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          * The Millennium Dome
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          The author examines the factors that contribute to the success of visitor attractions. 'The Development and Management of Visitor Attractions' 2nd Edition, covers every aspect of the process of developing and managing different kinds of attractions. Theories explored throughout the text are illustrated through a range of examples and case studies drawn from a number of countries.

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          The Engaging Museum Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement (Heritage: Care-Preseravtion-Management)
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            Graham Black
            Manufacturer: Routledge
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            ASIN: 041534557X

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            This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards.

            This holistic approach will be immensely helpful to museums in meeting the needs and expectations of visitors and building their audience base and includes:

            * chapter introductions and discussion sections
            * supporting case studies to show how ideas are put into practice
            * a lavish selection of tables, figures and plates to support and illustrate the discussion
            * boxes showing ideas, models and planning suggestions to guide development
            * an up-to-date bibliography of landmark research.

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            Poor Richard's Web Site Marketing Makeover: Improve Your Message and Turn Visitors Into Buyers
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            Marcia Yudkin
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            5 out of 5 stars Beefy info for a website and/or marketing.......2004-06-24

            I have been procrastinating in upgrading our website so I figured I'd read a few books... a great way to procrastinate some more. Well Marcia writes in a step by step practical way, creating a marketing foundation first then getting to the beef. I'm now educated and inspired, have a notebook full of notes and ideas that I'm actually implementing. It's getting done. I'm actually recommending this book to friends who are redoing their marketing message since the first two chapters do that so well... great book, not heavy, beefy info.

            5 out of 5 stars Excellent, practical advice that will improve web sites.......2003-08-07

            I have purchased many books on web site design and usability, most of them more expensive than this one, and yet this book is the one with worn pages because I go back to it again and again. Many "how to" books give you plenty of tips but never tell you what to do with them. Not this one! This book gives you sound, no-nonsense advice about what works on web sites and what doesn't. Part 1 clearly explains the "hows and whys" of crucial web site elements, while Part 2 tells you how to put what you learned in action. And as if that's not enough, you also get real life examples of how it all comes together, whether you're selling products, are a one-person show working out of a home office, or a large corporation. I was so impressed with the level of knowledge demonstrated in this book that I recently participated in Marcia Yudkin's (the author's) Web Marketing Makeover mentoring program. If you want your web site to bring in business you should read this book and religiously apply what you learn.

            5 out of 5 stars One of the best on this subject.......2003-07-29

            There are so many books on designing websites available today that it is easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume. Among these it is rare to find one that really stands out from the crowd. Marcia Yudkin's "Website Marketing Makeover" is an exception to this rule. She avoids a lot of the fluff that tends to be in other books and gets right down to the nitty-gritty of website design. One of the things that I particularly liked about the book is that she not only provides advice but also provides the means to actually accomplish the goal. For example, most of the website design books discus the need to see what your website looks like using different browsers. Marcia's book also makes this very important point. However, she not only makes the point but also points the reader to software and websites that can help determine what your website looks like in different browsers. When other books are saying what to do without telling you how to do it, Marcia is showing you how.

            From beginning to end, Marcia lucidly explains what works, what doesn't work, and why. Although it is predominantly focused on how to "turn visitors into buyers" and so is most appropriate for a site that sells something, there is a lot of information that is also appropriate for any site including purely informational ones. "Poor Richard's Website Marketing Makeover" is a highly recommended read for anyone looking to create or improve their website.

            5 out of 5 stars My first (and only) book review to date............2003-06-11

            I don't normally do reviews or read work-related books, so this has been an interesting process. After all, I sweated through college, marketing qualifications and I've run an internet business for three years, so why do I need to read what some American who I've never heard of thinks - after all, its not really relevant to a UK-based business... Wrong!

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            Quality Issues in Heritage Visitor Attractions
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              Ian Yeoman
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              ASIN: 0750646756

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              * Quality as a tool for success
              *Covers a diverse range of quality issues and theories in the context of heritage attractions
              * Well-respected international contributor team of academics and practitioners

              Heritage Tourism is the fastest growing component of the tourism market. Tourists have more choices than ever and their past experiences and future expectations make them even more discerning customers. A focus on quality can assist with customer satisfaction and business excellence.


              This new book on Quality issues brings together a range of specialists who lead us from the evolution of quality to our current position on the quality roadmap. It provides a toolkit to assist on the continuous quality improvement journey and presents a vision of what lies ahead in this new millennium.

              'Quality Issues in Heritage Visitor Attractions' will prove an invaluable guide for students and practitioners in the field s of Heritage, Visitor Attractions and Tourism in general.

              Divided into six sections this text presents a different 'flavour' of quality by looking at aspects such as critical success factors for heritage organizations, methods of quality improvement, developing the concept and offering, quality tools for managers, managing the quality workforce and the future.

              - Well-respected international contributor team of academics and practitioners.
              - Covers a diverse range of quality issues and theories in the context of the heritage attractions
              - Quality as a tool for success
              Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions
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                		Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions
                Bruce Prideaux , Stephen Wanhill , Geoffrey Wall , Joan C Henderson , BradleyM Braun , Martin McCracken , Derek Robbins , Philip Goulding , Myra Shackley , C Michael Hall , StephenW Boyd , Richard Voase , Stavros Christadoulakis , Ken Robinson , and Victor T C Middleton
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                ASIN: 0750653817

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                'Managing Visitor Attractions' is a unique text that provides a cutting edge insight into the issues, principles and practices of visitor attractions today and into the future.

                Divided into five parts, the book tackles the following topics:

                · the role and nature of visitor attractions
                · the development of visitor attraction provision
                · the management of visitor attractions
                · the marketing of visitor attractions
                · future issues and trends


                With contributions from around the world, the book is illustrated with up-to-date, international case studies from the UK, USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, China, Denmark and Canada. It is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of visitor attraction management, written by subject specialists with a wealth of experience in this field.

                Provides a cutting insight into the issues, principles and practices of visitor attractions
                Well-renowned contributors with a wealth of experience in the field
                Up-to-date international case studies from the UK, USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Greece and Canada
                The Accelerated Sublime: Landscape, Tourism, and Identity
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                  		The Accelerated Sublime: Landscape, Tourism, and Identity
                  Claudia Bell , and John Lyall
                  Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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                  ASIN: 0275967093

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                  Over the past two hundred years, transportation technology has enabled citizens of any nation to visit, for the purposes of entertainment and leisure, nearly any place on the entire globe. Nations compete for tourists, promoting themselves by showing off their beautiful landscapes and by holding out promises of previously unattainable excitement. As a result, locations and landscapes once considered sublime are becoming increasingly mediated and commodified into both "products" and elements of national identity constructs. As digital photographs make possible the instant transmission of any image from its point of origin to any destination, tourism has increasingly become a means through which we simply accumulate experiences to add to our self-constructed, accelerating autobiographies. Tourists seek ever more exciting landscape venues and activities for these experiences, while nations, ever more mindful of the need to attract a global audience, have transformed their sublime native lands and artifacts into mere grist for this ever-accelerating mill. As the authors demonstrate, the nature of tourism in the twenty-first century is transforming both national identity and international consumption, making the one nearly indistinguishable from the other.
                  The accessibility of Queensland visitor information centres' websites [An article from: Tourism Management]
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                    		The accessibility of Queensland visitor information centres' websites [An article from: Tourism Management]
                    Y. Shi
                    Manufacturer: Elsevier
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Digital

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                    ASIN: B000PA9UEM

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                    This digital document is a journal article from Tourism Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    Visitor information centres (VICs) are one major information resource for visitors both before arrival at their destination and during their visit, and use of the Web as a new information dissemination channel by VICs is now widespread. However, the issue of the accessibility of VIC websites may be overlooked. The homepages of websites from 66 Queensland VICs were examined to find out whether the posted information could be easily accessed by disabled tourists. Each homepage was analysed in terms of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) web accessibility by using Bobby Online Free Portal in January 2005. The majority of VIC website homepages were found to fail one or more of the W3C web accessibility measures which means disabled users may have substantial problems when accessing Queensland VIC websites. Possible reasons that could have contributed to the low accessibility rating of Queensland VIC homepages are discussed. Several suggestions on how to improve the accessibility of VIC websites are then offered.

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