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Historical giants : forefathers of modern hospitality and tourism / Kevin D. O'Gorman -- The master of ceremonies : Beau Nash and the rise of Bath, 1700-1750 / John Towner -- Sir William Edmund Heygate Colbourne (Billy) Butlin, 1899-1980 / Victor T.C. Middleton -- Conrad 'Connie' Nicholson Hilton, 1887-1979 : the consummate hotelier / John Cousins -- The DeHaan family and RCI : the development of the timeshare industry / Beverley Sparks and Jo-Anne Smith -- Thomas Cook : image and reality / John K. Walton -- Baedeker : the perceived 'inventor' of the formal guidebook - a Bible for travellers in the 19th century / David M. Bruce -- Freddie Laker : first giant of low-cost air travel / Hugh Somerville -- Sir Stelios : the easy-going entrepreneur / Andreas Papatheodorou, Konstantinos Polychroniadis and Ioulia Poulaki -- Richard Branson : 'Screw it, let's do it' / Richard W. Butler -- Walt Disney's world of entertainment attractions / Amir Shani and Ronald Logan -- Stanley Ho Hung-sun the 'king of gambling' / Glenn McCartney -- Kerry Packer : World Series Cricket (WSC) and the (R)evolution of modern sports-related tourism / James E.S. Higham and Scott Cohen -- AJ Hackett - a giant of tourism / Pamm Kellett -- A.P. Cockburn : Canadian transportation and resort pioneer / Geoffrey Shifflett and Geoffrey Wall -- John Muir : pioneer of nature preservation / C. Michael Hall -- Keith Willliams : chaos maker on the gold coast / Roslyn A. Russell -- And standing in the shadows of these giants - or maybe on their shoulders? / Brian Wheeller. |
