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245 00 a| Giants of tourism /c| edited by Richard W. Butler and Roslyn A. Russell.;

300 a| xvii, 288 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Historical giants : forefathers of modern hospitality and tourism / Kevin D. O'Gorman -- The master of ceremonies : Beau Nash and the rise of Bath, 1700-1750 / John Towner -- Sir William Edmund Heygate Colbourne (Billy) Butlin, 1899-1980 / Victor T.C. Middleton -- Conrad 'Connie' Nicholson Hilton, 1887-1979 : the consummate hotelier / John Cousins -- The DeHaan family and RCI : the development of the timeshare industry / Beverley Sparks and Jo-Anne Smith -- Thomas Cook : image and reality / John K. Walton -- Baedeker : the perceived 'inventor' of the formal guidebook - a Bible for travellers in the 19th century / David M. Bruce -- Freddie Laker : first giant of low-cost air travel / Hugh Somerville -- Sir Stelios : the easy-going entrepreneur / Andreas Papatheodorou, Konstantinos Polychroniadis and Ioulia Poulaki -- Richard Branson : 'Screw it, let's do it' / Richard W. Butler -- Walt Disney's world of entertainment attractions / Amir Shani and Ronald Logan -- Stanley Ho Hung-sun the 'king of gambling' / Glenn McCartney -- Kerry Packer : World Series Cricket (WSC) and the (R)evolution of modern sports-related tourism / James E.S. Higham and Scott Cohen -- AJ Hackett - a giant of tourism / Pamm Kellett -- A.P. Cockburn : Canadian transportation and resort pioneer / Geoffrey Shifflett and Geoffrey Wall -- John Muir : pioneer of nature preservation / C. Michael Hall -- Keith Willliams : chaos maker on the gold coast / Roslyn A. Russell -- And standing in the shadows of these giants - or maybe on their shoulders? / Brian Wheeller.;

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Giants of tourism / edited by Richard W. Butler and Roslyn A. Russell.

Other author	Butler, Richard, 1943-
Other author	Russell, Roslyn A.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, ©2010.
Description	xvii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Tourism. Tourism--Biography.

Contents	Historical giants : forefathers of modern hospitality and tourism / Kevin D. O'Gorman -- The master of ceremonies : Beau Nash and the rise of Bath, 1700-1750 / John Towner -- Sir William Edmund Heygate Colbourne (Billy) Butlin, 1899-1980 / Victor T.C. Middleton -- Conrad 'Connie' Nicholson Hilton, 1887-1979 : the consummate hotelier / John Cousins -- The DeHaan family and RCI : the development of the timeshare industry / Beverley Sparks and Jo-Anne Smith -- Thomas Cook : image and reality / John K. Walton -- Baedeker : the perceived 'inventor' of the formal guidebook - a Bible for travellers in the 19th century / David M. Bruce -- Freddie Laker : first giant of low-cost air travel / Hugh Somerville -- Sir Stelios : the easy-going entrepreneur / Andreas Papatheodorou, Konstantinos Polychroniadis and Ioulia Poulaki -- Richard Branson : 'Screw it, let's do it' / Richard W. Butler -- Walt Disney's world of entertainment attractions / Amir Shani and Ronald Logan -- Stanley Ho Hung-sun the 'king of gambling' / Glenn McCartney -- Kerry Packer : World Series Cricket (WSC) and the (R)evolution of modern sports-related tourism / James E.S. Higham and Scott Cohen -- AJ Hackett - a giant of tourism / Pamm Kellett -- A.P. Cockburn : Canadian transportation and resort pioneer / Geoffrey Shifflett and Geoffrey Wall -- John Muir : pioneer of nature preservation / C. Michael Hall -- Keith Willliams : chaos maker on the gold coast / Roslyn A. Russell -- And standing in the shadows of these giants - or maybe on their shoulders? / Brian Wheeller.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2010006652
ISBN	9781845936525 (alk. paper)
ISBN	1845936523 (alk. paper)

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