David Bowen

Margareta Bowen

This volume is concerned with the profession and discipline of interpretation. The range of perspectives presented in this collection of essays exemplifies the rich diversity of the profession as we know it today. Interpreting has been known to exist through the ages, though it was not necessarily considered a profession as such. We can attribute the current standing of the practice, in large part, to the historical circumstances which determined it and the efforts of those who responded to the need for communication within these circumstances. In the same way, our anticipation of future needs and the measures we are taking to prepare our next generation of interpreters to meet them will undoubtedly shape the direction our profession takes in the 21st century. The contributors to this volume are practicing interpreters, teachers of interpretation, and administrators.

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Interpreting

This fully updated edition responds to themes emerging over the decade since publication of the first edition and transmits the content into the 2020s. The themes include technological change, ethical consumption, and the tourist response to health risk, political instability and other uncertainty. Examples are introduced from all parts of the world, capturing the explosion of research on tourist behaviour, to produce a text that is strong both on theory and practical application. This is the go-to text for students and academics interested in tourist behaviour both from within the tourism field and from other fields and disciplines.

Yourself and Others as Tourists

Contemporary Tourist Behaviour, 2nd Edition

Stefano Malatesta

Marcella Schmidt Di Friedberg

Shahida Zubair

This book provides a spatial analysis of some key challenges facing the Maldives today, in particular social, cultural, economic and environmental transformations rendered by climate change and tourism.

Nissology and Geography

Atolls of the Maldives

Jackie Clarke

The behavior of tourists - what their motivations are, what impact their behavior has on the places they visit, the decisions they make - is a fundamental aspect in understanding the tourism industry as a whole. Contemporary Tourist Behaviour provides an in-depth examination of how and why tourists behave as they do, and how this is perceived by hosts and outside agencies, covering national characteristics of tourists from around the world, effects of everyday events and governmental and environmental factors, and tourists' consideration of sustainable principles.

Yourself and Others and Tourists

Contemporary Tourist Behaviour

We do like our food, but if we 'scoff the lot' (to quote from a telling piece of northern dialect) we're not leaving a single morsel and we're eating greedily. We hear so much about food these days, it screams at us from one tv moment to the next. We're in danger of becoming a consumer society before anything else. I shouldn't grumble, I suppose, if I find this useful for Part Nine of this series on English Idiom, with just one more to go for the present. Food apart, I think of all the things that we measure, mostly sub-consciously and evaluate. Nearer the front of my mind there is the wealth of idiom that this all creates and, as always, gives us the chance not only to laugh at ourselves but to pick up good advice, identify our shortcomings. Please join me; share too the thought that life is ninety per cent decision -making, that we need to feel every step we take and that we do this most times with ease What actually controls this process is another matter. The human mind can be as irregular as it likes. One can wind it up, but it isn't a watch!

David Bowen

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