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Technology innovation and applications in sustainable destination development

Ali, Alisha; Frew, Andrew J. (Springer, 2014-12)

This paper introduces information and communication technologies as an innovative approach to managing sustainable tourism development from a destination management perspective. Specific attention is focused on the how ...

TENSIONS BETWEEN AMBITION AND REALITY IN UK COMBINED ARTS FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING: CASE STUDY OF THE LICHFIELD FESTIVAL

Finkel, Rebecca (International Journal of Event Management Research, 2006)

The research presented examines the contradiction between reality and the expressed goals of many local combined arts festivals in the UK. Combined arts festivals are defined as those containing more than one genre of arts, ...

The 'dirty downside' of global sporting events: focus on human trafficking for sexual exploitation

Finkel, Rebecca; Finkel, M. (2014-12-29)

Objectives: Human trafficking is as complex human rights and public health issue. The issue of human trafficking for sexual exploitation at large global sporting events has proven to be elusive given the clandestine nature ...

The carnivalesque and event evolution: a study of the Beltane Fire Festival

Matheson, Catherine M.; Tinsley, Ross (Routledge, 2014-10-20)

This paper centres on the Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The objectives are to: first, identify the stages of the festival's evolution and their respective characteristics; second, distinguish features ...

The case for educated UK consumers : the National Consumer Council's consultation on consumer education

Brennan, Carol; Coppack, Martin (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005-09)

Consumer education is an integral part of the consumer empowerment mix. Over recent years the importance of consumer education as a vital tool for protecting consumers and making them better informed has been increasingly ...

The Case of Opt-Out Vouchers for Public Leisure Services

Elliott, Ian (2006)

The challenge of different ways of learning for Chinese students in UK HE

Foster, Monika (SEDA, 2008)

The challenge to c-stores : Edinburgh South Asian responses

Welsh, Rita; Bent, Richard; Seaman, Claire; Ingram, Arthur (Emerald, 2003-03)

While no two businesses are the same, examples from Edinburgh Pakistani community convenience store owners illustrate business survival strategies developed in response to increased environmental challenges presented by ...

The changing face of English universities: reinventing collegiality for the twenty-first century

Burnes, Bernard; Wend, Petra; By, Rune Todnem (Routledge, 2014-07)

In this paper we examine the creation and expansion of the English university system. We show how the enormous increase in student numbers, which began with the Robbins Report (1963), led to successive governments cutting ...

The Communications Act 2003: Implications for the Scottish Premier League

Elliott, Ian; Fingland, L. (Glasgow Caledonian University, 2003)

The Contribution of Technology-Based Heritage Interpretation to the Visitor Satisfaction in Museums

Reino, Sofia; Mitsche, Nicole; Frew, Andrew J. (Springer, 2007)

The tradition of heritage interpretation is moving away from purely conservational and educational goals to an entertainment- and experience-oriented interpretative provision. New technologies are gaining prominence in ...

The current and future impacts of the 2007-2009 economic recession on the festival and event industry

Goldblatt, Joe J.; Lee, Seung-won (Emerald, 2012-03)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze and understand the impact of the global financial crisis during 2007-2009. Furthermore, the paper seeks to identiy critical impacts upon the festival and event industry as ...

The development, rationale, organisation and future management of public sector tourism in Scotland

Frew, Andrew J.; Hay, Brian (University of Strathclyde, 2011-03)

The dictionary of event management

Goldblatt, Joe J.; McKibben, Carol F. (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996)

The discursive construction of class and lifestyle: Celebrity chef cookbooks in post-socialist Slovenia

Tominc, Ana (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017-11-15)

This book discusses transformations in the construction of culinary taste, lifestyle and class through cookbook language style in post-socialist Slovenia. Using a critical discourse studies approach it demonstrates how the ...

The Eclipse of Cooking and Meals: How primary care nurses now frame dietary advice

Lyon, Phil; Schrder, Monika; Bell, Fiona (Nova Science Publishers, 2010)

Book Description: Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, ...

The Evolving Role of the Ombudsman: A Conceptual and Constitutional Analysis of the Scottish Solution to Administrative Justice

Gill, Chris (Sweet and Maxwell, 2014-10)

In a recent Annual Report, Jim Martin, the current Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO), referred to his office as a distinctly Scottish solution to administrative justice. This article analyses recent developments ...