1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462705303321

Autore

Visser Gustav

Titolo

Tourism and crisis / / Gustav Visser and Sanette Ferreira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-11404-3

1-299-16095-6

1-136-28945-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Routledge critical studies in tourism, business and management

Altri autori (Persone)

FerreiraSanette

Disciplina

910.68/4

Soggetti

Tourism - Management

Crisis management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tourism and Crisis; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Tourism and crisis: a never-ending story?; 2 Financial crises in tourism and beyond: connecting economic, resource and environmental securities; 3 Much ado about nothing? Tourism and the financial crisis; 4 South Africa's destination image: media framing and representational crises; 5 Hallmark events as a counter to economic downturn: the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup; 6 Impacts of the global financial crisis on African tourism: a Tourism Confidence Index analysis

7 Hibernating economic decline? Tourism and labour market change in Europe's northern periphery8 The crisis of induced uneven development through South African tourism marketing strategies; 9 Responses to climate change mitigation during recessionary times: perspectives from accommodation providers in the Southwest of England; 10 Tourism-led development and backward linkages: evidence from the agriculture-tourism nexus in southern Africa; 11 Ethnic tourism in Kaokoland, northwest Namibia: cure for all or the next crisis for the OvaHimba?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most



significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However, despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality although in some cases in a different form. The book investigates different kinds of ""crisis"" and unpacks understandings of crisis in relation to various components in the contemporary tourism system. The aim of this book therefore is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783601503321

Autore

Guibernau i Berdun M. Montserrat (Maria Montserrat)

Titolo

Catalan nationalism : Francoism, transition and democracy / / Montserrat Guibernau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-35325-1

1-134-35326-X

0-203-34904-0

1-280-07628-3

0-203-30025-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Routledge/Cañada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain ; ; 9

Disciplina

320.54/0946/7

320.5409467

Soggetti

Nationalism - Spain - Catalonia

Catalonia (Spain) Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Nationalism and intellectuals in nations without states: the Catalan case; Portrait of a dictatorship: Francoism; The re-emergence of Catalan nationalism during Francoism; Catalonia within the new democratic Spain; Images of Catalonia I: ERC, PSUC-ICV and PSC; Images of Catalonia II: CDC and UDC; Conclusion; Appendix: National position of the main political parties of Catalan origin; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform regional identities? Has devolution fostered secessionism in Catalonia? These are some of the key questions discussed in this book.Catalan Nationalism considers whether a nation without a state, such as Catalonia, is able to survive within larger political institutions such as Spain and the