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A global assessment of tourism and recreation conservation threats to prioritise interventions [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We are increasingly using nature for tourism and recreation, an economic sector now generating more than 10% of the global GDP and 10% of global total employment. This growth though has come at a cost and we now have 5930 species for which tourism and recreation are conservation threats.
arxiv
Topographic thresholds for gully head formation in badlands
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 47, Issue 15, Page 3558-3587, December 2022., 2022 Gully topographic threshold model was extended to badlands, on the basis of data collected in the Mediterranean environment in Italy and Spain, characterized by diversified climatic, lithological, geological and anthropogenic settings. Criteria for the attribution of curve number values has been more objectively defined in order to reduce arbitrariness
Mauro Rossi +4 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Diet is one of a limited set of key ecological parameters defining primate species. A detailed understanding of dental functional correlates with primate diet is a key component for accurate dietary inference in fossil primates. Although considerable effort has been devoted to understanding post‐canine dental function, incisor function remains
Andrew Deane, Elizabeth R. Agosto
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Enhancing Tourism Destination Accessibility in Developing Countries through Virtual Worlds [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 The problem of destination accessibility is a vital concern in the sustainable tourism development in the emerging regions due to the increasing numbers of tourism business growth in the recent times. Tourism is one of the potential foreign exchange earning sectors, which place sustainability as one of the main success metrics for benchmarking the ...
arxiv
Culturally Imbued Trees: Physical and Metaphysical Connections
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian Aboriginal song‐lines and Dreaming tracks follow the movement and interactions of ancestral beings and are marked by physical features associated with those ancestral beings at culturally significant places, often termed ‘sacred sites’.
Ken Mulvaney, David Cooper
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https://thm.fthm.hr/images/issues/vol28no3/12_Book_review
Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2023 Book review: Creative Tourism Activating Cultural Resources and Engaging Creative Travellers, Tourism and Hospitality Management
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How Important is Gambling in National GDP: Case Study from Austria, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia
ECONOMICS, 2019 Purpose – The situation in the field of gambling is changing due to the rise of Internet and Mobile gambling. In general gambling consumption is increasing every year, but the distribution of consumption has radically changed from Land Based gambling to ...
Raspor Andrej +3 more
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Snake and Moon ‘Right Way Marriage’ Stories on Stone and Bark
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In northwest Australia, boab trees hold significant cultural values for First Nations people. Their leaves, bark, roots and nuts are important as traditional resources for food, medicine, fibre, water and shade and serve as reference points in the landscape. Some of the tree trunks are inscribed with images and symbols which tell of events and
Jane Balme +7 more
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An exploratory investigation of visitor spending at an urban tourist attraction. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2017 The National Zoological Gardens is the largest and only nationally managed zoological garden (zoo) in South Africa. Situated in the Pretoria city centre, the zoo has considerable importance for the community and the region.
Uwe P. Hermann +2 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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