This is a comprehensive guide to traveling around Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore on a budget. Thailand and Malaysia remain popular destinations for travelers, especially those who are touring south-east Asia independently and want to stick to a budget. Trains, buses and river ferries, plus boats out to the islands, all offer a fascinating way of exploring and experiencing the local culture.This guide features cities, towns, islands and more remote areas. It includes budget guides to where to stay, where to eat, and what to see as well as practical information on traveling by train, bus and boat. You will find information on public transport routes, excursions and lots of ideas for getting off the tourist trail. There are features on trekking and hill tribes in northern Thailand, city walks taking in temples, museums and markets as well as color photographs, city and town maps and journey plans.

Independent Traveler's Australia 2001 is the comprehensive guide to traveling across Australia on a budget.The variety of travel passes and modes of transport available make it possible to tour Australia, and stick to a budget. Rail passes, car hire and long-distance coach services and domestic air passes allow you to explore this vast country.This guide features practical information on car hire, air travel and public transport, where to stay, eat, and what to see. There are details of rail and bus passes, plus other budget travel options. Distances and travel timings for planning a tour of Australia as well as color photographs, city and town maps and journey plans are included.

Independent Traveler's New Zealand 2001 is the comprehensive guide to traveling across New Zealand on a budget.The variety of travel passes and modes of transport available make it possible to tour New Zealand, and stick to a budget. Rail and bus passes, car hire and domestic air passes allow you to explore both islands.This guide features practical information on car hire, air travel and public transport, where to stay, eat, and what to see. There are details of rail and bus passes, plus other budget travel options. Distances and travel timings for planning a tour of New Zealand as well as color photographs, city and town maps and journey plans are included.

International Cases in Tourism Management includes: * Profiles of individual companies * Case studies on destination management and marketing * Material on different management functions in tourism, such as marketing and human resource management * Case studies of particular types of tourism, such as ecotourism and cultural tourism The case studies are supplemented by exercises and questions, which ensure that for students and tutors alike the book is the ideal accompaniment to all tourism courses.

The People’s Republic of China has changed from a country which actively discouraged tourism into one of the major source markets for the international industry; the 35 million Chinese travelling across the border in 2005 are merely the tip of the iceberg. China’s Outbound Tourism is the first book on this major development and has been written using a multitude of sources from China and around the world. The topic is approached from many angles, using methods from the fields of economics, political sciences, sociology and cross-cultural studies. The book explains the economic and social background of the surge in tourism and the changes in policy in the country since 1949, when it moved from prevention through controlled development to encouragement of outbound travels. Throughout the book, facts and figures are given for the global development as well as in-depth information about China’s key destinations. The growing importance of tourists from China is however not just a question of quantity; the text explains the features which distinguish their travel motivations and behaviours from ‘western’ and Japanese tourists, and the consequences for product adaptation and marketing methods for destinations interested in attracting and satisfying Chinese tourists. Arlt’s groundbreaking book cannot be ignored by professionals, academics and students of tourism and leisure; it offers fresh insight into the topic and indicates some of the future lines of development in this area.