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Journal articles on the topic "Tourism North Wales"
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Thomas, Brychan, Lisa Powell, and Simon Thomas. "An Investigation into Cultural Events and Tourism on the Isle of Man." Land Science 2, no. 2 (October 30, 2020): p34. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/ls.v2n2p34.
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This paper investigates the significance of cultural events for the development of tourism on the Isle of Man. Historically the Isle of Man captured tourists from areas around the Irish Sea including England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. This was especially the case with working-class tourists from the industrial North of England, North Wales, Dublin and Belfast. These tourism markets were prominent in the late 19th, and early and mid 20th centuries. Recent tourist data shows a fall in visitor numbers to the Isle of Man which has taken effect in post war years. In order to explore this decline, and the significance of cultural events for the development of tourism in recent years, a number of research methods have been deployed involving secondary data to assess tourism development and tourism sector growth determinants. As a consequence an investigation was undertaken involving sequential parts. Part one considered trends in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries drawing primarily on secondary data, existing research and archival material. Part two investigated cultural events to provide findings and analysis for the tourism industry on the Island. Lastly, part three assessed the nature and importance of events according to the modern evolution of the sector. External (international) and internal (island) influences on development were considered. From the findings conclusions showing prominent issues from the trends observed have enabled consideration of the importance of cultural events for tourism development.
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Price, William R., and Catherine L. Ronck. "Quarrying for World Heritage Designation: Slate Tourism in North Wales." Geoheritage 11, no. 4 (August 22, 2019): 1839–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12371-019-00402-0.
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Constantine, Mary-Ann. "Consumed Landscapes: Coal, Air and Circulation in the Writings of Catherine Hutton." Romanticism 27, no. 2 (July 2021): 122–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2021.0503.
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This essay examines a particular nexus of ideas about health and circulation in relation to the practice and the literature of travel and tourism in Romantic-period Britain. Wales, like other ‘picturesque’ destinations, is often envisaged in these writings, and in fiction, as a space of non-metropolitan purity, of clean air, and of health. Yet this is precisely the period of industrial expansion in both south and north Wales, and coal-mines, copper-works, iron foundries and smelting furnaces also figured on many tourist itineraries. Taking as its entry point the novels of Birmingham-based writer Catherine Hutton – particularly The Welsh Mountaineer (1817), which was informed by the author's own experience of travel in north Wales in the late 1790s – the essay sets the familiar trope of travel for a ‘change of air’ against the literal changes to air quality which resulted from Britain's rapid industrialisation in the decades around 1800, revealing some inventive and complex adaptations of contemporary ideas about the effects of ‘pure’ and ‘polluted’ air on human health.
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Carlsen, Jack. "Economic Evaluation of Recreation and Tourism in Natural Areas: A Case Study in New South Wales, Australia." Tourism Economics 3, no. 3 (September 1997): 227–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135481669700300302.
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Provision of information for the purposes of evaluating and monitoring recreation and tourism land use is a conceptually difficult task for economists and land managers. A range of techniques has been developed since the pioneering work of Clawson and Knetsch in the 1960s to estimate the market value of recreation and tourism in natural areas. These techniques involve a number of conceptual and practical difficulties when used for environmental auditing and evaluation purposes. This article outlines the process of evaluating recreation and tourism on public lands in order to provide information for an environmental audit of the Upper North East region of New South Wales. The range of market and non-market values associated with tourism and recreation on public lands is based on existing studies of the region. The values of commercial production, recreation and tourism on public lands are compared within a structural model (input–output) of the regional economy.
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Shaughnessy, PD, SV Briggs, and R. Constable. "Observations on Seals at Montague Island, New South Wales." Australian Mammalogy 23, no. 1 (2001): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am01001.
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Australian fur-seals Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus and New Zealand fur-seals A. forsteri haul-out (come ashore) at the north end of Montague Island. They were counted from study boats on 82 occasions during nine trips to the island, each of about one week, between November 1997 and November 1998, and in July 1999 and April 2000. Highest numbers were recorded between August and October 1998, and more animals were ashore during 1997 and 1998 than Irvine et al. (1997) observed in 1993 and 1994. The maximum number of A. p. doriferus recorded ashore in this study was 540 in October 1998, compared with a little over 300 observed in September 1993. There are reports of a few fur-seal pups on Montague Island. An A. forsteri pup born there in the 1999/2000 summer survived for at least 4 months. Nevertheless, the island should be considered as supporting haul-out sites rather than breeding sites. A Subantarctic fur-seal A. tropicalis and an Australian sea-lion Neophoca cinerea were also recorded during the study. Seven juvenile A. p. doriferus were observed ashore with manmade debris (straps or portions of a trawl net) around their necks. Fur-seals at Montague Island generate interest because of tourism and interactions with local fisheries. Trends in their abundance should be monitored annually in March, for which there is a long-term data set, and in October, when they are most abundant.
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GALE, TIM. "Modernism, Post-Modernism and the Decline of British Seaside Resorts as Long Holiday Destinations: A Case Study of Rhyl, North Wales." Tourism Geographies 7, no. 1 (February 2005): 86–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461668042000324076.
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Kamagi, J. W. A., S. R. P. Sitorus, H. S. Arifin, and H. Hardjomidjojo. "Management strategy for marine tourism in Bunaken National Park North Sulawesi Province." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1109, no. 1 (November 1, 2022): 012048. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1109/1/012048.
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Abstract Bunaken National Park is well-known as one of the special interest tourist destinations with diving activities as its main attraction. Bunaken National Park is also famous for its unique underwater landscape in the form of coral reef walls. Some of the marine tourism attractions in Bunaken National Park are diving, snorkeling, underwater photography, Bottom Glass Boat (catamaran), dolphin watching, and dugong watching. In its management, Bunaken Park has several problems, such as the potential for tourist attractions that are not optimal, mass tourism, litter and the illegal capture of protected marine animals. This study aims to obtain a marine tourism management strategy and its priorities. The analysis method used is interpretative structural modeling using experts as data sources. The experts used as data sources are 2 people from academics and 1 person from the former manager of the Bunaken National Park (DPTNB). The strategies obtained are visitor management strategies, environmental quality improvement strategies and community empowerment strategies. To realize this strategy, program implementation is strengthening regulations and permits, Waste Management, Destination development, community empowerment and stakeholder cooperation.
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TURNER, DAVID A. "“Delectable North Wales” and Stakeholders: The London & North Western Railway’s Marketing of North Wales, c.1904–1914." Enterprise & Society 19, no. 4 (August 28, 2018): 864–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eso.2017.70.
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This article discusses the London & North Western Railway’s (LNWR) marketing activities before 1914. It extends our understanding of British railway marketing by examining how the company forged links with stakeholders in North Wales, particularly the resort authorities, in support of its development of the tourist trade there. While the company remained the dominant force in promoting the region, cooperative working facilitated the sharing of market intelligence, exchange of best practice, coordination of advertising efforts, coordination of services, and the harmonizing of a promotional message that appealed to middle-class discretionary travelers that North Wales was a place for health and pleasure. The article also shows how the LNWR deployed a system of integrated marketing communications, providing one of the earliest known examples within British business of such practice. The sum result was positive impacts on the development of the North Welsh tourist trade in the years before the World War I.
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Bills, Kym. "Building a world-class Australian decommissioning industry." APPEA Journal 58, no. 2 (2018): 690. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj17154.
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Collaboration in decommissioning offshore infrastructure could save both industry and taxpayers billions of dollars and facilitate new industries and exports for Australia, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. At the end of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant construction boom, Australia must not miss out on this major new opportunity. The 2017 bid for Commonwealth funding to establish a Decommissioning Offshore Infrastructure Cooperative Research Centre (DOI-CRC) involved more than 30 participants and many other collaborators. High-level commitments were made by Chevron, Woodside, Shell, BHP, ExxonMobil, Quadrant, The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, the University of New South Wales, Deakin University, Australian Maritime College, CSIRO and Australian Institute of Marine Science. A Perth-based DOI-CRC was supported by National Energy Resources Australia, National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority and other Australian Government bodies and by the Western Australian Government and its Chief Scientist and agencies but did not receive sufficient support from the CRC Advisory Committee. Meeting decommissioning challenges in the North West Shelf, Bass Strait and the Northern Territory in a timely, robust, scientific, efficient and cost-effective manner that contributes to a sustainable marine environment should draw upon and augment international best practice with local capability and expertise. Good science and innovative engineering are needed to support regulatory approval of options such as ‘rigs to reefs’ and commercial opportunities such as in waste management and expanded fishing and tourism. APPEA and operators wish to maintain DOI-CRC’s momentum and learn from UK research arrangements through funding marine science projects. But we must be much broader if we are to build a sustainable world-class Australian decommissioning industry. In particular, we need to work more closely with state and federal regulators and policymakers and undertake more engineering science research and innovation.
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Hadi, Wisnu, and Atun Yulianto. "Menggali Potensi Wisata Alam Untuk Kegiatan Sport Tourism Di Kabupaten Sleman Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta." Khasanah Ilmu - Jurnal Pariwisata Dan Budaya 12, no. 2 (September 29, 2021): 142–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31294/khi.v12i2.11053.
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Abstrak - Dalam dunia pariwisata banyak sekali jenis-jenis wisata salah satunya Sport Tourism atau wisata olah raga. Kabupaten Sleman salah satu contoh mempunyai potensi wisata alam yang dapat dipetakan untuk wisata olah raga atau sport tourism. Pada masa pandemi covid-19 dan pembatasan sosial terdapat kecenderungan masyarakat memanfaatkan waktu untuk berolahraga dengan tujuan meningkatkan imun, seperti jalan sehat, lari ataupun bersepeda ke spot-spot wisata yang tersebar diwilayah Yogyakarta. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menggali potensi wisata di Kabupaten Sleman sudah menyediakan fasilitas Sport Tourism. Dalam penelitian yang bersifat deskriptif kualitatif ini, peneliti mengangkat potensi wisata alam di Kabupaten Sleman yang memiliki wahana sport tourism. Hasilnya didapatkan data bahwa disisi utara terdapat lereng gunung Merapi tepatnya di bukit Klangon yang telah dikembangkan wisata olahraga berupa Mountain Bike untuk ajang kejuaraan lokal maupun tingkat nasional. Destinasi dikawasan wisata candi prambanan juga banyak digunakan untuk event nasional dan internasioanal sebagai wisata olah raga seperti marathon, road bike, jalan sehat, sepeda santai dan yoga. Disisi barat pada aliran sungai Progo yang mengalir di wilayah Kabupaten Sleman sudah dimanfaatkan juga untuk sport tourism olah raga arung jeram dan pada aliran sungai Opak di obyek wisata Lava Bantal Berbah Sleman juga digunakan untuk wisata river tubing dan sepeda santai. Kawasan lain yang tidak kalah menarik dalam mengembangkan sport tourism adalah perbukitan yang ada kecamatan Prambanan Sleman. Kawasan ini berada disisi timur Yogyakarta yang memiliki banyak destinasi wisata baik alam maupun sejarah seperti Candi Boko, Tebing Breksi dan Spot Riyadi. Kawasan wisata ini masih dapat dikembangkan lagi untuk kegiatan wisata olahraga yang menarik wisatawan baik nasional maupun internsional, seperti sport lari lintas alam, marathon, mountain bike, sepeda santai dan jalan santai dengan menjelajahi rute perbukitan yang melewati obyek wisata tersebut. Kata Kunci : Potensi, Wisata Alam, Sport Tourism Abstract – In the world of tourism, there are many types of tourism, one of which is sport tourism. One example of Sleman Regency has the potential for natural tourism that can be mapped for sports tourism or sport tourism. During the COVID-19 pandemic and social restrictions, there is a tendency for people to use their time to exercise with the aim of increasing their immunity, such as healthy walks, running or cycling to tourist spots spread across the Yogyakarta area. The purpose of this research is to explore the tourism potential in Sleman Regency which has provided Sport Tourism facilities. In this qualitative descriptive study, the researcher raised the potential of natural tourism in Sleman Regency which has a sport tourism vehicle. The results obtained data that on the north side there is a slope of Mount Merapi, precisely on the Klangon hill, which has developed sports tourism in the form of Mountain Bikes for local and national championship events. Destinations in the Prambanan temple area are also widely used for national and international events as sports tourism such as marathons, road bikes, healthy walks, relaxing bicycles and yoga. On the west side, the Progo river that flows in the Sleman Regency area has also been used for sport tourism, white water rafting and the Opak river at the Lava Pillow Berbah tourism object, Sleman is also used for river tubing and relaxing bicycles. Another area that is no less interesting in developing sport tourism is the hills in the Prambanan sub-district of Sleman. This area is located on the east side of Yogyakarta which has many natural and historical tourist destinations such as Boko Temple, Breksi Cliff and Riyadi Spot. This tourist area can still be developed again for sports tourism activities that attract both national and international tourists, such as cross-country running sports, marathons, mountain bikes, leisurely bicycles and leisurely walks by exploring hilly routes that pass through these attractions.Keyword : Potential, Nature Tourism, Sport Tourism
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Tourism North Wales"
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Whalley, Peter A. "Resident perceptions of the sociocultural impacts of tourism in Llangollen, north-east Wales." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2000. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20521/.
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Taking as its starting point the need to better understand the relationship between tourism and culture in a western European context, this research develops and applies a conceptual framework and methodology to evaluate the attitudes among residents of a tourist receiving community to the sociocultural impacts of tourism. To this end, a case study approach is used to evaluate the attitudes of the residents of Llangollen, a small market town in North-east Wales, to the sociocultural impacts of tourism on their town and way of life. As host to the annual Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, and as a popular destination for day visitors and longer stay tourists alike, the community of Llangollen is a mature tourist destination possessing a wide range of tourist and cultural facilities. The study examines a range of appropriate literature and develops a conceptual framework around three key theories: the notion of resident 'coping strategies' to deal with the impacts of tourism, the sociological principle of social exchange theory and the social-psychological theory of social representations, with the latter being central to the study's methodology. There were three elements to the field work. Firstly, preliminary sensitising interviews were carried out in order to highlight key areas of local concern, and to inform the design of the survey work. Secondly, a questionnaire survey was undertaken of the residents of Llangollen, which was then interpreted using two different methods of respondent segmentation and using an assessment of the difference between groups. Finally, focus group discussions were carried out in the town in order to assist in the interpretation of the questionnaire findings and also to provide a systematically-derived set of qualitative data in order to assess the relative merits of taking different methodological approaches to the research. The findings of the research show that the community of Llangollen is generally positive about the impacts of tourism, with the role of the International Eisteddfod being pivotal in cultural terms. The three different approaches to the analysis of the impacts of tourism in Llangollen provided different perspectives and insights. The multivariate technique of cluster analysis gave the clearest picture from the questionnaire of resident perceptions of the cultural impacts of tourism, whereas an equity-based approach gave more indication of exchange processes at work in the community. The use of focus group discussions proved to be by far the most valuable in terms of drawing out not only what were the attitudes of residents, but also how and why such attitudes had come about in the first place. Most importantly, this research has made much clearer the political, economic and cultural contexts within which the residents of Llangollen perceive the impacts of tourism, and how it is these contexts which are influential in the attitudes taken to the impacts of tourism on the community, on groups in the community, and on the individual members of the community. The research also suggests there is a need for tourism research to move away from its traditional reliance on the questionnaire survey, and the search for statistically significant but perhaps socially irrelevant groups. It is suggested that further use of focus group discussions may help to more fully understand the relationships between tourism and culture within local communities.
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Griffiths, Ingrid A. "Nationalism and tourist-host relationships : a case study of Bala, North Wales." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2011. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/2798/.
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Within the domain of tourism, tourist-host relationships are dynamic and complex. The nature of interaction between tourist and host potentially renders a destination more or less desirable to tourists and this, in turn, may impact upon the development and promotion of tourism for that destination. In particular, differences between tourists and hosts will influence the kind of relationship that emerges at the points of contact between them. In ‘intra-national’ settings, where tourists from one country interact with hosts from another, such differences will inevitably be in evidence. Thus, understanding the relevance of nationalism to tourist-host relationships is fundamental to the management of tourism in these contexts. To date, however, little academic attention has been paid to nationalistic determinants of tourist-host encounters. The purpose of this thesis is to address this gap in the literature. Critically exploring the influences of nationalism within tourist-hosts relationships, it focuses specifically on the case of Bala, a small community and tourist destination in North Wales, identifying and appraising the extent and implications of nationalism on the relationship between English tourists and Welsh hosts. Utilising Q method, a technique designed for the systematic study of subjectivity, the research seeks to elicit English tourists’ and Welsh hosts’ subjectivities concerning nationalism, and by association, uncover subjectivities towards national identities, culture and tourism. It reveals that, fundamentally, nationalism does influence the nature of the relationship between English tourists and Welsh hosts in a number of ways, particularly with respect to nationalistic understanding, perceptions of self in relation to others and perception of others. However, the research also indicates that the nature of relationships between tourists and hosts is essentially an ongoing social process which, given time, will reach an organic equilibrium condition. As a consequence, tourism policy and process interventions to manage tourist-host relationships are considered futile within ‘intra-national’ environments.
Books on the topic "Tourism North Wales"
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Scott, Michael David. A socio-anthropological study of tourism in Llanberis, North Wales. [Guildford]: [University of Surrey], 1991.
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A handbook of the trip from Leicester, Nottingham, and Derby to Liverpool and the coast of North Wales. London: Routledge/Thoemmes, 1998.
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Phillips, Dylan. Effeithiau twristiaeth ar yr iaith Gymraeg yng ngogledd-orllewin Cymru =: The effects of tourism on the Welsh language in north-west Wales. Aberystwyth: Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru, 2001.
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Osmond, John. Pam y mae angen strategaeth dwristiaeth newydd ar Eryri a Gogledd Cymru: Cylfwyniad i Fforwm Economadd Gogledd Cymru = Why Snowdonia and North Wales need a new tourism strategy : a presentation to the North Wales Economic Forum. Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs, 1996.
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1963-, Fennell David A., ed. North America: A tourism handbook. Buffalo, NY: Channel View Publications, 2006.
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Hernon, Paul. Sir Watkin's tours: Excursions to France, Italy and North Wales, 1768 - 71. Wrexham, Wales: Bridge Books, 2013.
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Prairie: A North American guide. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.
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William, Bingley. North Wales: Delineated from two excursions through all the interesting parts of that highly beautiful and romantic country, and intended as a guide to future tourists. Ruthin: Denbighshire County Council, 1998.
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Gender on ice: American ideologies of polar expeditions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
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Wales Tourist Board. Research and Corporate Planning Department., ed. Tourism in North Wales. Cardiff: Wales Tourist Board Research and Corporate Planning Department, 1996.
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Parrott, Nicholas, Anne-Marie Sherwood, and Peter Midmore. "Strengthening Links between Agriculture and Tourism on the Rural Periphery: A Case Study of Southwest Wales." In Local Enterprise on the North Atlantic Margin, 317–41. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429431913-18.
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Armstrong, John, and David M. Williams. "Early Steamboat Services and Their Impact in North Wales, 1817-1840s." In The Impact of Technological Change, 259–76. Liverpool University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780986497377.003.0014.
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This chapter explores the impact of the early steamboat in North Wales, a region underexplored by maritime historians in regard to steam technology. It concentrates on period between 1817 and the 1840s. It begins by considering the comparatively small number of registered steamboats in North Wales and offers reasons why - the small population of towns and the rural environment are particular factors of note. It then expands out to examine steamboat services in the rest of Britain in comparison. It explores the geographical problems of establishing steamships in Wales, plus the successes and failures of several routes. The Holyhead-Dublin route is given significant attention, as it became a major communication route between Britain and Ireland. Finally, it studies the impact of the steamship on Welsh communities, and finds that it created an economic boost and provided wider access to technology, news, information, and passengers. Furthermore, livestock farming, retail trade, and the tourist industry all developed significantly in North Wales due to the presence of the steamship.
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Simancas Cruz, Moisés, José Juan Cano Delgado, Jorge Cebrián Ramos, Carlos Flores Rodríguez, Desiderio Gutiérrez Taño, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, María Pilar Peñarrubia Zaragoza, and Javier Serrano Lara. "The Tourism Value of Terraced Fields Landscapes." In Handbook of Research on Cultural Tourism and Sustainability, 231–52. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9217-5.ch011.
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Due to the mountainous nature of the Island of La Gomera (Canary Islands, Spain) relatively little flat land is available. This has generated an impressive architecture of terraces with dry stone borders. However, the process of restructuring and readjusting rural areas, mainly due to the emergence of a new model of territorial development and the impossibility of mechanizing tillage, due to the very configuration and morphology of these terraces, have led to the abandonment of agricultural activity on the terraces, with the consequent decay and collapse of the dry-stone walls. This chapter sets out the strategy to develop tourism of the terraces in the north of the Island of La Gomera.
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Simancas Cruz, Moisés, José Juan Cano Delgado, Jorge Cebrián Ramos, Carlos Flores Rodríguez, Desiderio Gutiérrez Taño, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, María Pilar Peñarrubia Zaragoza, and Javier Serrano Lara. "The Tourism Value of Terraced Fields Landscapes." In Handbook of Research on Cultural Tourism and Sustainability, 231–52. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9217-5.ch011.
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Due to the mountainous nature of the Island of La Gomera (Canary Islands, Spain) relatively little flat land is available. This has generated an impressive architecture of terraces with dry stone borders. However, the process of restructuring and readjusting rural areas, mainly due to the emergence of a new model of territorial development and the impossibility of mechanizing tillage, due to the very configuration and morphology of these terraces, have led to the abandonment of agricultural activity on the terraces, with the consequent decay and collapse of the dry-stone walls. This chapter sets out the strategy to develop tourism of the terraces in the north of the Island of La Gomera.
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Broughton, Chad. "Looking North from Barra de Cazones." In Boom, Bust, Exodus. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199765614.003.0016.
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In Barra De Cazones, Veracruz, we ordered Modelos at an empty beachfront restaurant, La Palapa de Kime, on a muggy July afternoon. A handful of vacationers were scattered on the expansive, pebbled, brown sand beach. This was not the tropical paradise of Cabo San Lucas brochures—with expensive hotels and fine white sands—but the scarcity of tourists in this beautiful and serene Gulf Coast village was puzzling at first glance. The roads into town are good—pleasant, twisting runs through a remote and picturesque rainforest, in fact—and a couple of medium-sized cities and an airport are within an hours’ drive. We later learned that the electricity in town was sporadic and that the hotel accommodations were expensive but shoddy. And along the downtown strip, half-constructed buildings seemed frozen in their incompleteness, as if they were as ambivalent about the future as the inhabitants were. Roofless, these cinderblock buildings stood mute and abandoned alongside the central beachfront road, rusting rebar jutting out of the tops of their gray walls. In front of them, stacks of bricks lay idly on the sidewalk. This quiet fishing and farming village of a few thousand would like to reinvent itself as a tourist destination. Government efforts to create fishing cooperatives and plants for processing and freezing fish expanded Mexico’s annual catch in the 1970s and 1980s, but today Mexico’s coasts are dominated by U.S., Canadian, and Japanese boats, which catch ten times what Mexican boats do. Small-scale fishermen in places like Barra de Cazones fetch low prices for their fish, and high fuel prices take a sizable chunk of their meager earnings. With fishermen struggling, little investment in infrastructure, high interest rates, and few jobs, this lonely town’s main business, like that of the nearby villages of Volador and Agua Dulce, is out-migration. Archimedes, a proud and boisterous local entrepreneur, was frying several freshly caught fish in a wide skillet and extolling their virtues in a theatrical baritone.
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Soto, María-Victoria, Misael Cabello, and Joselyn Arriagada-González. "Current Geodynamics and Evolutionary Trends of a Headland Bay Beach System in the Semi-Arid Coast of Chile." In Coastal Environments. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94967.
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The Chilean coast is controlled by the tectonics and structure, generating an irregular coastal landscape, with bays, marine terraces, sandy and gravel beaches, sand dune fields and Andean slopes, forming some mega cliffs that are attacked by waves. The Chilean coastline is shaped by headland bay beaches, with a dynamic coast modeled by south-western winds and south–north longshore current. We analyzed the case of the Coquimbo mega headland bay beach, which consists of four headland bay beaches. A methodological study was carried out on the morphometric parameters of the shoreline and the types of beaches dominated by waves along with geomorphological analysis of the coastal zone. We observed a mass transfer process from south to north. The northern sections of the bays are the places with the densest sand dune fields. This concentration of dunes occurs in each bay individually and in the mega bay as well. The sedimentary supply comes from Andean catchments to the shoreline and is transported and reworked by the longshore current to the northern area, where a huge sand field dune has developed, 120 km away from the mouth of Limarí River, the most southern catchment in the study area. In the mega bay, the current trend is a continuous sedimentary supply, despite the semi-arid conditions and the extreme drought that has affected the area since 2011. The study area is also a popular destination in Chile for beach tourism and is a place of interest for the mining industry.
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Hofstede, Jacobus. "Danish–German–Dutch Wadden Environments." In The Physical Geography of Western Europe. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199277759.003.0020.
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The Wadden Sea environment is a coastal tidal environment situated between the North Sea and the northwestern European Lowlands. It stretches over a distance of about 450 km from Den Helder in The Netherlands to the peninsula of Skallingen in Denmark. The approximately 10,000 km2 large Wadden Sea is a coastal sediment sink that developed in the course of the Holocene transgression. It resulted from a specific combination of sediment availability (mainly from the North Sea) and a hydrodynamic regime of tides and waves. In its present state, the Wadden Sea environment consists of extensive tidal flats (the wadden), tidal gullies and inlets, salt marshes, and about twenty-four sandy barrier islands. Further, four estuaries exist that discharge into the Wadden Sea. The Wadden Sea may best be characterized by the words ‘dynamic’ and ‘extreme’; dynamic from a geo-morphological point of view, extreme in its biology. According to Spiegel (1997), with each flood phase a tidal energy input in the order of 2.2 thousand MW occurs in the Wadden Sea of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany). This energy input, combined with the energy impact of wind, waves, and storm surges, results in strong morphological processes. Flora and fauna in the Wadden Sea have to adapt to these intense morphodynamics. Further, they have to endure the permanent change of flood and ebb and fluctuations in salinity, as well as high water temperatures during summer and occasional ice cover during winter. As a result of these extreme environmental conditions, a highly specialized biosystem with about 4,800 species has developed (Heydemann 1998). In its present state the Wadden Sea is one of the last remaining near-natural large-scale ecosystems in central Europe. Its ecological significance is underlined by the fact that 250 animal species live exclusively here (Heydemann 1998). Furthermore, nowhere else in Europe is an ecosystem of this size visited by more birds per surface area for the purpose of feeding. However, the Wadden Sea is subjected to considerable human influences, e.g. the input of nutrients and pollutants, fisheries, dredging, boat traffic, and tourism (de Jong et al. 1999).
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Fagan, Brian. "Beginnings." In From Stonehenge to Samarkand. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195160918.003.0004.
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The intoxicating fascination of archaeology and ancient ruins comes not from a melancholy romanticism brought on by shattered towers and collapsing walls, but from what the English novelist and traveler Rose Macaulay called “the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs. . . . It is less ruin-worship than the worship of a tremendous past.” Macaulay herself was an indefatigable traveler in search of the ghosts of the past. She looked at far more than the serried columns of the Parthenon in Athens or the ruins of Roman Palmyra. Her travels took her to sites that required imagination as well as some specialized knowledge. “Nineveh and Babylon . . . are, in fact, little more than mounds.” Macaulay was not the first to articulate this. The nineteenth-century English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard wrote of the “stern, shapeless mound rising like a hill from the scorched plain, the stupendous mass of brickwork occasionally laid bare by winter rains.” He was an archaeologist of energy and vast imagination, intoxicated with the grandeur of the Assyrian bas-reliefs on Nineveh’s palace walls—human figures, gods, kings, warriors, human-headed lions. Nineveh captivated the Victorians. “Is not Nineveh most delightful and prodigious?” wrote one young lady to her brother in India. “Papa says nothing so truly thrilling has happened in excavations since they found Pompeii.” Layard and others wrote books about the mighty palaces that once dazzled the ancient world. Inevitably, the tourists came to wander through the tunnels that Layard’s workers had carved into the city’s mounds. Inevitably, too, many of them succumbed to fever, recovering to remember an exotic underground world they had seen in their delirium. Today, you must rely on your restless imagination amid bare heaps of earth, desert on every side. You inescapably remember the words of the Old Testament prophet Zephaniah as you tread on twenty centuries of Assyrian history: “And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. . . . How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!”
Conference papers on the topic "Tourism North Wales"
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Babanin, Alexander V., Geoff G. Wake, and Jason McConochie. "Field Observation Site for Air-Sea Interactions in Tropical Cyclones." In ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2016-54570.
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Accurate predictions of winds, waves and currents within extreme tropical cyclones are critical for shipping, offshore oil and gas, ports and harbours, coastal erosion, tourism and fishing. The paper will describe a unique field observation programme intended to gather in situ data about air-sea interactions in tropical cyclones. The site has been established on the Woodside-operated North Rankin Complex, an offshore gas production facility located off the north-west coast of Western Australia. The facility is multi-purpose. It will assist Woodside to manage platform operations during the cyclone season and to make advances in the estimate of extreme wave crest heights for platform loading while enabling academic researchers to measure air-sea interactions. Concurrent measurements are conducted in the atmospheric boundary layer, on the ocean surface and below the surface all the way to the bottom at 120 m depth. The measurements include fluxes of momentum and energy across the air-sea interface, spray production, directional wave spectra up to high wavenumbers, and will allow us to close the balance of the air-sea exchanges for the first time in extreme field conditions.