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Handbook of Cultural Tourism, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on this significant stream of tourism and its future direction. The book is divided into seven inter-related sections. Part I looks at the historical, philosophical and theoretical framework for cultural tourism. This section debates tourist autonomy role play, authenticity, imaginaries, cross-cultural issues and inter-disciplinarity. Part II analyses the role that politics takes in cultural tourism. This section also looks at ways in which cultural tourism is used as a policy instrument for economic development. Part III focuses on social patterns and trends, such as the mobilities paradigm, performativity, reflexivity and traditional hospitality, as well as considering sensitive social issues such as dark tourism. Part IV analyses community and development, exploring adaptive forms of cultural tourism, as well as more sustainable models for indigenous tourism development. Part V discusses landscapes and destinations, including the transformation of space into place, issues of authenticity in landscape, the transformation of urban and rural landscapes into tourism products, and conservation versus development dilemmas. Part VI refers to regeneration and planning, especially the creative turn in cultural tourism, which can be used to avoid problems of serial reproduction, standardisation and homogenisation. Part VII deals with the tourist and visitor experience, emphasising the desire of tourists to be more actively and interactively engaged in cultural tourism. This significant volume offers the reader a comprehensive synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking and research. The text is international in focus, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study and will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in cultural tourism. This is essential reading for students, researchers and academics of Tourism as well as those of related studies, in particular Cultural Studies, Leisure, Geography, Sociology, Politics and Economics.
Historia critica, 2022
Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei is one the most intensively cultivated shrimp in India as well as world. The recent experience in the development of large scale aquaculture venture has given rise to the opinion that the key to success in not the availability of adequate technology, but also efficient management. The present study reported that Litopenaeus vannamei in the brackish water shrimp ponds in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. The study was conducted in three culture ponds (without probiotics) P1, P2, P3 and ponds (with probiotics) P1p, P2p and P3p of same size i.e. 0.5ha. The control ponds fed with experimental feed F1, F2 and F3 and the experimental ponds with soil, water and feed probiotics respectively. Feeding was done four times a day. The physico-chemical parameters were analyzed using standard methods. The rate of survival was better recorded in the probiotics treated ponds 84.5%, 80.4% and 79.8% than that of the non-probiotic ponds it is 73.4%, 69.8% and 67.5% only. The study observed the increased level of growth, production, survival and feed conversion ratio during the culture period. The results of the present study also revealed that the total haemocyte count and the total haemolymph protein were higher in probiotic fed Litopenaeus vannamei compared to without probiotic fed shrimp.
Speleologia - Rivista della Società Speleologica Italiana, 2004
International Education Studies, 2010
AtticPOT Attic painted pottery in ancient Thrace (6th – 4th century BC). New approaches and digital tools. Edited by Despoina Tsiafaki, Amalia Avramidou, Natasa Michailidou, Yannis Mourthos, Melpomeni Karta Xanthi 2022. P. 405-419.
Kadmos 62(1/2): 161–191, 2023
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018
Cell reports medicine, 2021
Genes, chromosomes & cancer, 2016
Turkish Journal of Bioethics, 2019
European Journal of Pediatrics, 2002
JMIR Formative Research
Journal of Consumer Research, 2010
European Journal of Public Health, 2020