Tourism Business Frontiers or Frontiers of the Roman Empire

Tourism Business Frontiers: Consumer, Products and Industry

Author: Dimitrios Buhalis

As the global tourism industry continues to expand and to become more complex, it is vital that those in the industry are equipped with a thorough knowledge of all topics involved. New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues provides this comprehensive coverage and more. Written by a team of globally renowned thinkers and researchers, it not only provides a brief historical overview of tourism, but delves deeper, to discuss emerging trends, consumer types and looks at the way the industry itself is changing and developing. It provides the manager of tomorrow with the ability to look beyond normal planning horizons and identify potential opportunities from these changes.

New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues is part of a two part set with its companion text, Tourism Dynamics, Challenges and Tools: Present and Future Issues which takes the reader on a logical progression to look at issues relating to the external environment in which the tourism industry functions. Both texts thereby provide the reader with a complete set of tools and knowledge recognise the key areas of growth and change, and the ability to use the new tools and technologies available to develop them and maximise business potential.

* Explores vital issues and changes related to new consumers, new products and new industry
* Provides the manager of tomorrow with the ability to look beyond normal planning horizons
* Written by an international team of contributors, drawing on a variety of exemplary cases
* A companion text to Tourism Management Dynamics

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study

Author: C R Whittaker

Although the Roman empire was one of the longest lasting in history, it was never ideologically conceived by its rulers or inhabitants as a territory within fixed limits. Yet Roman armies clearly reached certain points -- which today we call frontiers -- where they simply stopped advancing and annexing new territories. In Frontiers of the Roman Empire, C. R. Whittaker examines the Roman frontiers both in terms of what they meant to the Romans and in their military, economic, and social function.

Observing that frontiers are rarely, if ever, static, Whittaker argues that the very success of the Roman frontiers as permeable border zones sowed the seeds of their eventual destruction. As the frontiers of the late empire ceased to function, the ideological distinctions between Romans and barbarians became blurred. Yet the very permeability of the frontiers, Whittaker contends, also permitted a transformation of Roman society, breathing new life into the empire rather than causing its complete extinction.

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From the Euphrates to Hadrian's Wall, the Danube to the Atlas Mountains, reconstructs life in the towns and garrisons at the edges of the Roman Empire and the military, social, and economic role of the frontier zones on both sides of the borders. Explores the Roman concept of geographical space, why the tide of empire washed up where it did, and the external pressures that eventually pushed it back. Based on a lecture series at the College de France in 1987 and published in French in 1989. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction: The Historiography of Frontiers	1
1	Space, Power, and Society	10
2	Frontiers and the Growth of Empire	31
3	Why Did the Frontiers Stop Where They Did?	60
4	Economy and Society of the Frontiers	98
5	The Frontiers under Pressure	132
6	The Collapse of the Frontiers	192
7	Warlords and Landlords in the Later Empire	243
	Notes	279
	References	307
	Index	331