The number of Internet users shopping online for travel and leisure services doubled in 1999 to 27 million. ... Many people believe that virtual tourism could allow tourism to become a much "greener" activity. The thinking behind this view is that virtual tourism and the World Wide Web can provide tourism experiences in peoples own homes, this could reduce their desire to travel further a field for leisure experiences and therefore limit the damage to the environment caused by tourists. ... "The Gaze therefore presupposes a system of social activities and signs which locate the particular ...

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People are in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the type of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are customary, or at least widely encouraged or approved in the society in which they belong (Townsend 1979 in Blackburn1991). ... Income is a key resource for families and the ones with low incomes are least able to afford or have access to good housing, generally live in poor areas with no play facilities for children and have poor access to health, education and leisure services. ...

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Industrial Revolution, the era of technologic, economic and social changes, dramatically impacted the working class. It changed not only the machinery and work organization, but also the location of workplaces and home, the size, composition and relationship of the family. Workers were used to w...

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Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? Despite a continued growth of production and wealth in absolute terms, the economy of "the first industrial nation" began to decelerate after 1870, in comparison with that of her closest competitors. This so called "decline" was caused by a number of factors not merely one as the question suggests, indeed Supple` s foreword (1) asks, "Are we to be concerned with the rate of growth of total income or of manufacturing output? Above all, by what standard...

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