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In today's fast-paced world, the travel industry faces the dual challenge of mitigating its environmental impact while promoting the mental and emotional well-being of travelers. Traditional travel practices often lead to significant carbon footprints and can contribute to the degradation of local communities and ecosystems. Additionally, the hurried nature of modern travel can leave tourists feeling stressed and disconnected, rather than rejuvenated. Promoting Sustainability in Psychosocial Travel Techniques addresses these pressing issues by offering a comprehensive exploration of sustainable travel practices that also enhance psychological health. This book provides valuable insights into how mindful travel practices, community engagement, and cultural sensitivity can create enriching travel experiences that benefit both the environment and the traveler. It emphasizes the importance of integrating psychosocial approaches into travel to foster deeper connections with nature and local cultures, ultimately contributing to a more sustainable and fulfilling travel experience.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on two waves of interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life, intersecting with gender to constrain family formation. The imprint of illegality remains, even upon obtaining DACA or permanent residency. Interweaving the perspectives of US citizen romantic partners and children, Enriquez illustrates the multigenerational punishment that limits the upward mobility of Latino families. Of Love and Papers sparks an intimate understanding of contemporary US immigration policies and their enduring consequences for immigrant families.
The relationship between resources and capabilities and performance has been discussed since Edith Penrose addressed the mechanisms behind the growth of the firm (Penrose, 1959). Early contributions to this area of research suggest that valuable and inimitable resources and capabilities are the primary sources of superior performance and sustained competitive advantage (Barney, 1991; Wernerfelt, 1984), while more recent contributions suggest that the ability to change and re-configure resources and capabilities (dynamic capabilities) are the most important for performance, especially when the market is unstable (Teece, 2014; Teece, Pisano & Shuen, 1997). It has also been argued that firms ma...
Tourism and Planning provides a fresh and stimulating approach to a major area of tourism studies, examining the key concepts of tourism planning. It emphasises the primary themes of tourism planning, examining the forces (at a global, regional and local level) which drive planning, and how tourism is integrated into existing economic, social, natural, business and political environments.* provides an accessible and up-to-date resource for students tackling this complex subject for the first time* draws on examples from around the world, including USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Americas* discusses the relational nature of tourism planning from the international and national settings through to destination planning and then to individual sites* emphasises the critical role of collaboration, networking and trust in tourism planning* discusses the forces and processes at macro and micro level which drive tourism planning and development* tackles head on the issue of sustainabilityC.Michael Hall is based at the Centre for Tourism, University of otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He also holds positions as Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Natu
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In today's fast-paced world, the travel industry faces the dual challenge of mitigating its environmental impact while promoting the mental and emotional well-being of travelers. Traditional travel practices often lead to significant carbon footprints and can contribute to the degradation of local communities and ecosystems. Additionally, the hurried nature of modern travel can leave tourists feeling stressed and disconnected, rather than rejuvenated. Promoting Sustainability in Psychosocial Travel Techniques addresses these pressing issues by offering a comprehensive exploration of sustainable travel practices that also enhance psychological health. This book provides valuable insights into how mindful travel practices, community engagement, and cultural sensitivity can create enriching travel experiences that benefit both the environment and the traveler. It emphasizes the importance of integrating psychosocial approaches into travel to foster deeper connections with nature and local cultures, ultimately contributing to a more sustainable and fulfilling travel experience.
Keith Oatley draws on theories from psychology, philosophy and linguistics, as well as writings from other social sciences, to show how emotions are central to any understanding of human actions and mental life.
Strategy Beyond Markets is organized around three themes: Public Politics, Private Politics, and Integrated Political Strategy. The book explores the way these strategies influence political environments, firms and corporations.
This work examines key concepts and emphasises primary themes of tourism planning. It examines the forces which drive planning, and how tourism is integrated into existing social, economic, natural, business and political environments.
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