Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: greg richards

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  • SMALL CITIES WITH BIG DREAMS
    GREG RICHARDS / LIAN DUIF
    How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by ‘world cities’ and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the challenges of smaller cities trying to put themselves on the map, attract resources and initiate development. Placemaking has become an important tool for driving urban development that is sensitive to...

    $979.00

  • EVENT DESIGN
    GREG RICHARDS
    Events are becoming more complex as their range of functions grows, as meeting places, creative spaces, economic catalysts, social drivers, community builders, image makers, business forums and network nodes. Effective design can produce more successful business models that can help to sustain cultural and sporting activities even in difficult economic times. This process requi...

    $1,360.00

  • EXPLORING THE SOCIAL IMPACTS OF EVENTS
    GREG RICHARDS
    Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different kinds of events or in different settings. This timely volume fills this gap by being the first to explore the different social aspects of events, looking in particula...

    $1,360.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CULTURAL TOURISM
    SMITH, MELANIE / RICHARDS, GREG
    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...

    $1,460.00

  • EVENTFUL CITIES
    GREG RICHARDS / ROBERT PALMER
    Processes of globalization, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes within broader urban development strategies. This volume: * analyzes the process of cultural event development, management and marketing and lin...

    $1,420.00

  • TOURISM AND GASTRONOMY
    HJALAGER, ANNE-METTE / RICHARDS, GREG
    In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on tourism experiences and attractions related to food. In many cases eating out while on holiday includes the 'consumption' of a local heritage, comparable to what is experienced when visiting historical sites and museums. Despite this increasing attention, however, systematic research on the subject has been nearly absent. T...

    $1,320.00

  • TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    HALL, DEREK / RICHARDS, GREG
    As the tourist industry becomes increasingly important to communities around the world, the need to develop tourism in a sustainable manner has also become a primary concern. This impressive collection of international case studies addresses this crucial issue by asking what local communities can contribute to sustainable tourism, and what sustainability can offer these local c...

    $1,600.00