The 1980s and 1990s have seen a proliferation of the term ''tourist'' destination. There is a shift from ''old'' to ''new'' tourism. These case histories examine these issues. The book is divided into three sections, dealing with political, economic and sociocultural reasons for change.

As the influence of labor unions declines in many industrialized nations, particularly the United States, the influence of workers has decreased. Because of the need for greater involvement of workers in changing production systems, as well as frustration with existing structures of workplace...

Various scholars consider destination image - a vital part in tourism marketing- as the key in attracting tourists. It is often regarded, as the most important element in a destination's management and may induce success or failure. Within this research project, destination image is being...

Innovation and technology absorption are now firmly recognized as one of the main sources of economic growth for emerging and advanced economies alike. That is why innovation is seen as a possible catalyst for revitalizing post-transition economies hit hard by the recent financial and economic...

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the...

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism--to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx,...

Intro -- European Economic and Political Issues Volume 9 -- Contents -- Preface -- The Non-Market Sector in Europe and in the United States: Underground Activities and Home Production -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Stylized Facts -- Non-Market Sector in Dynamic Equilibrium Models -- Two...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON AUTHORS -- FOREWORD SURFACE TENSIONS AND DEEP STRUCTURES --- Wang Gungwu -- INTRODUCTION ASIA AND EUROPE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD -- EMPIRES -- THE FIRST GLOBALIZATION EPISODE: THE CREATION OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE, OR THE ECONOMICS OF CHINGGIS KHAN --- Ronald Findlay...

Europe as a Multiple Modernity: Multiplicity of Religious Identities and Belonging challenges the predominant modernity theory arguing that Europe can be considered as one multiple modernity. In that, the book presents a collection of essays showing the plurality of discourses and variety in...

Intro -- The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part 1: Research in Institutional Setting -- 1 Between Teaching and Research: The Place of Science in Early Modern English Universities -- 2 The Academization of Parisian...