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Challenging traditional conceptions and providing a new critical perspective, the authors provide a comprehensive historical record of inequality in Australia, and show how that account no longer adequately explains the new and different forms of inequality. As Australian society has changed, they argue, new forms of inequality have emerged, influencing the country's experience of identity, embodiment and politics. The book presents a critical overview of contemporary inequality suitable for undergraduates....

1845410181This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we do tourism and the places in which we are tourists raise practical, material and emotional questions about tourist life. These questions are at the heart of this book. This book draws on both empirical work and a range of theoretical frameworks, arguing that tourism matters precisely because of the lessons it can teach us about living everyday life with others. ...

The Business of Tourism is an invaluable foundation book for Tourism or Tourism Management students, offering historical context, background theory and research, making it possible for students to see how the industry has developed and to contextualise the current issues and challenges that Tourism is facing today. Holloway et al place emphasis on the practical operational aspects of the tourism industry, making this book well-suited to students who intend to one day work in Tourism.

Workshop Workbook prepares students studying a selected vocational topic (Tourism and Catering) for the English they will need in the real world. The series is the perfect complement to a general English coursebook.

The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiros' groundbreaking research analyzes wealth -total assets and debts rather than income alone -to uncover deep and persistent racial inequality in America, and they show how public policies have failed to redress the problem.

Business Travel and Tourism' pres a comprehensive, international overview of business tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
With the use of case studies from around the world, 'Business Travel and Tourism' explores a broad range of issues, including:

There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of social organization and basic to the operation of more complex societies. An understanding of the transformation from relatively egalitarian societies to a hierarchical organization and socioeconomic stratification is fundamental to our knowledge about the human condition.  

Tourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives provides an innovative, interdisciplinary approach. This book takes as its central theme the role of entrepreneurship in the context of regional, local and national tourism development. By engaging with top academics in both tourism and entrepreneurship this book delivers a cohesive, interdisciplinary examination of the most recent developments in both tourism and entrepreneurship.

This second review of tourism trends and policies, carried out by the OECD Tourism Committee, assesses the long-term evolution of tourism in the OECD area over the last two decades, the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the tourism industry and also, for the first time, analyses data and policy trends in twelve non-OECD countries, including big emerging economies such as Brazil, China and India.

The latest collaboration by internationally renowned authors which proposes a new theoretical model for the advancement of sport tourism