Although the formidable growth of urban tourism around the world is well documented, it is widely acknowledged (see Page, 1995; Ashworth, 1989) that research focusing on the culture and experience of urban tourism is rare. Indeed, there is a degree of consensus that quantitative visitor surveys tend to dominate urban tourism research. Whilst recent cultural research focusing on the embodiment a...

the central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. this necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...

Mythology allocated a large part, fundamental and effectively to the human mind. The knowledge of mythology in fact recognizes the important infrastructure of ideas, culture and civilization. One of the most common ways to study mythology is to implement psychological ideas in mythology. The result is not only a better understanding of mythology, but also a better understanding of human psyche ...

today, urbanization (living at apartments) phenomenon as the most common type of residence of cities has been changed so that mainly reflects the chaos in this area. too much attention paid to economic indicators compromised the balance in the housing sector and created a new type of buildings. the occurred changes indicate ignoring cultural characteristics, less attention paid to cultural conc...

“Living” matter distinguishes itself from “ordinary” by its capacity to grow, reproduce or multiply, and most of all autonomous functional activity, baptised “intelligence”, sense environment adapt survive. This last feature truly is one the miracles life. Find out more in Chapter 3 EPS Grand Challenges.