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Marketing and managing city tourism destinations
No full textCities are critical to tourism in all countries of the world. They are often important transportation hubs and contain extensive arrays of daytime and night-time attractions, activities and experiences. The main purpose of this chapter is to situate the tourism marketing, branding and product development of urban areas within the context of destination marketing and management. A descriptive research approach is followed using literature reviewing and expert opinion on the themes. In so doing, the author acknowledges that two streams of urban tourism research have developed, one stream within tourism journals, books, and association professional development activities; the other stream, one sub-stream of which can be called place marketing and branding, appears in similar venues related to urban studies and planning, city management, sustainable development, transportation, and other. Furthermore, it is recognized that there has been a considerable gap between city marketing practice and related academic scholarship, and both have developed rather separately.
To say that city tourism marketing is something recent is far from the truth. In fact, 1896 saw the establishment of the first city convention promotion bureau in Detroit, Michigan (Gartrell, 1988, p. 4; Travel Michigan, 2016). However, the marketing of cities has changed quite dramatically in the ensuing approximately 125 years, becoming more professional and broad-reaching, and has transformed with Web 1.0 and 2.0, the greater emphasis on destination/place branding, more concern with sustainability, and the advent of smart cities.
This chapter begins with a mini academic literature review on city tourism marketing, branding, and product development. The literature review highlights among other things that city tourism needs to be managed and not just marketed. Second, the chapter provides a short history of destination marketing and management. It demonstrates the transformation from destination marketing to destination management. The third part of the chapter is devoted to best processes and practices in city destination marketing and management. This discourse explains the multiple roles of destination management beyond just marketing and branding. The chapter ends with a short summary drawing together the strands from the previous four parts
Relating Research and Teaching: comparing experiences and beliefs
No full textThe relationship between research and teaching has possible benefits and inherent tensions. It is a recurrent topic of discussion by faculty including engineering educators. Exploring a potentially beneficial relationship and is of interest and possible value to engineering faculty, our students, and our stakeholders. Institutions and departments have developed a range of approaches including research-led, research informed, or just plain scholarly. This paper examines the relationship between research and teaching in the undergraduate curriculum. It compares and contrasts evidence of the beliefs and experiences of the engineering faculty and the engineering student. It presents and analyses the result of surveys which gathered qualitative and qualitative data to explore the inter-relationship of research and teaching; in the curriculum; and as it is delivered and experienced in the lab, seminar room and lecture hall. This research builds on existing work developed in a preliminary study which examined ways in which synergies between research and teaching could be achieved, particularly in the ‘hard/applied’ areas of the curriculum. It analyses data from the ‘research-intensive’ and the ‘teaching-intensive’ perspective
Ecstacy Lake
No full textAn author event presented by the Friends of the University of Adelaide Library. Recorded: Ira Raymond Room, 20 April 2017.Alastair Sarre talks about his Steve West novels
Measuring top management's IT governance knowledge absorptive capacity
No full textTop management's involvement in IT governance appears to positively influence the establishment and implementation of effective IT governance within organizations. Considering the lack of advancement in the area in practice, this study offers a deeper understanding of dimensions that help to explain top management's knowledge of IT governance. Using absorptive capacity as its theoretical underpinning, and based on Australian empirical data, this study shows that for top management to achieve higher levels of absorptive capacity of IT governance knowledge (ACAP-ITG), they need to focus on four dimensions: prior relevant knowledge, effective communication network, appropriate communication climate, and effective knowledge scanning. To further support the usefulness of the ACAP-ITG construct, this study empirically tested the relationship between the construct and corporate performance. This study presents top management in organizations with useful measures that can help them assess their organization's strengths and weaknesses related to ACAP-ITG
Expert SQL Server 2008 Development
No full textExpert SQL Server 2008 Development is aimed at SQL Server developers ready to move beyond Books Online. Author and experienced developer Alastair Aitchison shows you how to think about SQL Server development as if it were any other type of development. You'll learn to manage testing in SQL Server and to properly deal with errors and exceptions. The book also covers critical, database-centric topics such as managing concurrency and securing your data and code through proper privileges and authorization. Alastair places focus on sound development and architectural practices that will help you b
Financial Services – An analysis of the decision in Kleinwort Benson
No full textThe author analyses the Court of Appeal decision in the swap case of Kleinwort Benson v Birmingham City Council [1996] 4 All ER 733 and the availability of the defence of passing on. He highlights the significance for over-the-counter derivatives and the impact on the law of restitution and of trusts. Article by Alastair Hudson (Queen Mary, University of London) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Financial Services – An analysis of the decision in Kleinwort Benson
No full textThe author analyses the Court of Appeal decision in the swap case of Kleinwort Benson v Birmingham City Council [1996] 4 All ER 733 and the availability of the defence of passing on. He highlights the significance for over-the-counter derivatives and the impact on the law of restitution and of trusts. Article by Alastair Hudson (Queen Mary, University of London) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.
Planning and managing sustainable urban destinations
No full textPlanning and managing are crucial subjects for a book dedicated to sustainable urban tourism. The author decided to prepare this chapter on these subjects with the philosophy of blending academic and practitioner contributions as suggested in Chapter 8. This introduction is in four parts with the first providing the background to sustainable urban tourism including the historical and intellectual development of the topic and major contributions. The second part of the introduction identifies the chapter’s main aim and specific objectives; the third proposes the potential contributions; and the fourth outlines the chapter structure
Beyond Prevention: The Role of Strategic Communications Across the Four Pillars of Counterterrorism Strategy
No full textThe rise to prominence of Daesh and its expert exploitation of extremist propaganda has brought in to focus the role of strategic communications in counterterrorism (CT) and countering violent extremism policy. Nonetheless, strategic communications tends to be discussed largely in relation to counter- recruitment and counter-radicalisation. Using the UK’s CT strategy as a case study, Andrew Glazzard and Alastair Reed argue that strategic communications has a far wider application in CT.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
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Howard Caygill: author of 'Resistance: a philosophy of defiance' - interviewed by Alastair Gray and Philip Holmburg
No full textAn interview with the philosopher Howard Caygill, primarily concerning his book 'Resistance', conducted in December 201
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