Search for dissertations about: "Guidebooks"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Guidebooks.
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1. Guided tourism : the role of guidebooks in German tourist behaviour in Sweden
Abstract : Tourism is a spatial phenomenon. Tourist behaviour on-site is not only dependent on the destination itself, but also on the situation in other places, tourists’ spatial mobility and access to information. On the basis of this argument, the whole tourism system is taken into account in this thesis. READ MORE
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2. The Threatened Paradise : Tourism on a Greek Island
Abstract : This thesis is about attitudes and practices of foreign tourists in Ólymbos, a village in the north of the Greek island of Kárpathos. Based upon several periods of fieldwork from 1999 to 2005, it focuses on the discomfort with tourism and the tourist role which is shared by many holidaymakers, and which also can be found in various types of representations of the area. READ MORE
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3. Knowledge and pleasure at Regent's Park : the gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the nineteenth century
Abstract : The subject of this dissertation is the Zoological Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (f. 1826) in the nineteenth century. Located in Regent s Park, it was the express purpose of the Gardens (f. 1828) to function as a testing-ground for acclimatisation and to demonstrate the scientific importance of various animal species. READ MORE
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4. Coping, pain and disability in patients with chronic inflammatory and musculoskeletal diseases
Abstract : The main interest of this study is in the behavioural and psychological aspects of adjusting to a chronic, periodically painful disease. This study focuses on the concept of coping, the modes of coping, the context of coping, and the factors related to these. READ MORE