Classic Reviews in Tourism

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Christopher P. Cooper
Channel View Publications, 2003 - Business & Economics - 264 pages
Drawing together some of the leading authors in tourism, this text provides state-of-the-art reviews of research in fields of tourism. The text also revisits classic reviews which first appeared in Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management series, over a decade before the publication of this title. Topics covered include gender, alternative tourism, urban tourism, heritage tourism and environmental auditing.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
L
4
An Interview with Peter Newmark
17
Word
25
On the Perils of Particle Translation
35
Accuracy in Translation
47
Training Translators in a Third Language A New Approach
66
The Role of Contexts in Translating
79
A Case Study from
190
Translating for Children
208
Translation and Language Games in the Balkans
217
ADNOM A Project that Faded Away
225
From Anonymous Parasites to Transformation Agents
233
Contents
vii
The Economics of Tourism
22
The Statistical Measurement of Tourism
55

Word Text and the Translation of Tourist
95
Holding on to Some Slippery Customers
104
Albrecht Neubert
119
A Case Study in Functional Sentence Perspective
129
How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines
157
The Source Text in Translation Assessment
169
Electronic Corpora as Tools for Translation
179
Perspectives on Temporal Change and the History
77
An Essential
115
Competitive Strategies for a New Tourism
130
Still an Imbalance in Attention?
143
A Key Sector of the then New
164
A Means to Improving Tourisms
192
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Chris Cooper is foundation professor of tourism management and head of the school of tourism and leisure management at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before moving to Australia he worked at the University of Surrey and Bournemouth University in the UK. Chris Cooper's research interests include globalisation, tourism education and training, and resort development. He has published a number of texts in tourism and is co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism.

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