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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"Travellers"”.
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The psychological contract of international business travellers with their employers. Perspectives of Belgian travellers
… employees, particularly International Business Travellers (abbreviated to IBTs). Inspired by a lack of research attention relating to this labour population, this DBA project opens up the black7box of the IBT working partnership. This is achieved by surveying the role of the IBT as well as the …
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Antecedents of travellers' eWOM communication
… media provide a convenient platform for travellers to instantly share their experiences. Known as electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), it offers a powerful source of information and can also act as an effective marketing tool. Existing studies have focused on the conceptualisation and …
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British travellers in Switzerland 1814-1860
The thesis examines British travellers in Switzerland over the period from 1814 to 1860. Evidence was gathered on the travellers themselves: their numbers, social position, age and gender, as well as on the groups within which they travelled. The nature of the tours was also considered, in …
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Saga-Accounts of Norse Far-Travellers
… north, south, east and west. These Norse far-travellers have various motivations for their journeys, and particular motivations and motifs are associated with each cardinal direction. Travel to the distant west and north, for example, is typified by commercial motivations: real estate and …
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Backpack travellers using commercial backpacker accommodation in Queensland
… order to maintain this style of travel, Backpack travellers are away from home for long periods of time, make use of less expensive accommodation, use low cost transport and engage in tours and activities that will meet the travel experience they are seeking. The aim of this minor research thesis …
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The Eternal Wanders: Social Representations of Gypsy/Travellers
… representations have on the ability of Gypsy/Travellers to access public services and provision on a basis of equality. Unlike traditional ‘writings of culture’ this research utilises a critical ethnography approach to give testimony to participants’ lived experiences and advocate for social …
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A Travellers' Sense of Place in the City
… in both popular and scholarly imaginaries that Travellers, due to their ‘nomadic mind-set’ and non-sedentary uses of land, do not have a sense of place. This thesis presents an ethnographic account of an extra-legal camp in Southeast London, to argue that its Traveller inhabitants do have a …
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Losing ground : locational formulations in argumentation over New Travellers
… concerns the defence of rural space against New Travellers. In contrast to previous sociological and human geographical work in this area, instead of newspaper articles and Parliamentary discourse, participants' talk and texts are the starting point for the - investigation. The data corpora have …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… Section II emphasizes the history of British travellers in the region up to 1861, William Gladstone and the politicization of Balkan travel literature, and the influence of the 1870s Balkan crisis on the nature of travel to the Balkans. Section III investigates the background and influence of …
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Exploring Strange, New Worlds: Travellers and Foreigners in Medieval Iberian Literature
… and social relations of their native lands, travellers offer a new perspective on a web of connections that permeated a dynamic, responsive, and interconnected medieval world.</p><p>Chapter One examines the travel accounts of two Andalusi voyagers, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, a Muslim scholar, and …
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Tourists and travellers: women's non-fictional writing about Scotland 1770-1830
… radically from a time when there were few travellers and little provision for those few, through to Scotland's emergence as a fully organised tourist destination. Simultaneous with these changes came changes in writing. I examine the changes in the ways in which travellers travelled in, …
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Freedom of Self-Determination in Planning: The Case of Travellers & Gypsies of England
The main question of the thesis was to understand the extent to which the English planning system facilitated freedom of self-determination. The inquiry focused on the Irish Traveller and English Gypsy (T&G) groups because of their current state of freedoms in planning compared with larger society. …
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Fellow Travellers: What do users trust on recommender websites? A case study of TripAdvisor.com
This study used TripAdvisor.com to explore the role of trust in decision-making in an information-rich environment. It is established that information helps to overcome uncertainty; and when it is insufficient, trust takes over to allow for action. The role of trust when information is abundant is …
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Civil service employment for Travellers in the context of building on symbolic ethnic recognition
… Irish Traveller in the context of inclusion for Travellers, with specific regard to employment. The reason why this research area has emerged, and why it matters, is because for decades, Irish Travellers have remained on the verges. Not so much on the verges of society – because as a group who …
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Understanding Chinese travellers' travel experiences in the UK: a critical analysis of an online community.
… seeks to deepen our understanding of Chinese travellers’ travel experience and the meanings they derived from their holiday in the UK by critically analysing the largest online travel community in China, namely www.go2eu.com. This is an online community created by travellers themselves, hence …
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