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City Tourism : National Capital Perspectives.
Title:
City Tourism : National Capital Perspectives.
Author:
Maitland, Robert.
ISBN:
9781845935474
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- National Capitals in the City Tourism System -- 1 Introduction: National Capitals and City Tourism -- 2 City Tourism: National Capital Perspectives -- Imaging and Branding -- 3 The Capital City as a 'Product' Brand Under the Nation's Corporate Umbrella -- 4 Images of Canberra: Destination Marketing and the Capital City of Australia -- 5 Migrating Capitals: Diverging Images of Tradition and Modernity in Japanese Urban Tourism -- 6 Branding and Positioning an African Capital City: the Case of Tshwane in South Africa -- Visitor Experiences -- 7 Inside the Triangle: Images of a Capital -- 8 Seeing the Sites: Perceptions of London -- 9 Changing Visitor Perceptions of a Capital City: the Case of Wellington, New Zealand -- 10 The Relationship between Capital City Monumentality and Tourism in Valletta -- Tourism Markets -- 11 Brussels: a Multilayered Capital City -- 12 Putting the Capital 'C' into Cardiff's Identity as a Conference Tourism Destination -- 13 International Business Tourism: the Case of Dublin -- 14 School Excursion Management in National Capital Cities -- Tourism Development -- 15 Twenty-three Districts in Search of a City: Budapest - the Capitaless Capital? -- 16 Reinvented National Capital City: the Case of Hanoi, Vietnam -- 17 Resurrecting Phoenicia: Tourist Landscapes and National Identity in the Heart of the Lebanese Capital -- 18 Diversifying the Tourism Product in Brussels: European Capital and Multicultural City -- 19 Modern Tourist Development and the Complexities of Cross-border Identities Within a Planned Capital Region -- Future Developments -- 20 Conclusions and Future Directions for National Capital Tourism -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
City tourism has grown rapidly and spread well beyond tourist-historic cities and resorts. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book draws on original research to investigate tourism in national capitals, considering image and branding, the visitor experience, visitor markets and tourism development.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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