A deadly game. A sadistic target. A job that will push Nick Hunter to the brink.Assassin Nick Hunter is hired by British intelligence to eliminate ex-KGB operative Gennady Popovich. His mission takes him to Russia, where Popovich hosts a gruesome game show financed by Moscow’s criminal underworld.As Nick infiltrates the city’s mob scene to locate his mark, he becomes entangled in their brutal games. With the stakes higher than ever, Nick must navigate a treacherous landscap...

A sacred journey. A twisted killer. A bounty hunter caught in the crosshairs of faith.Nick Hunter’s latest mission in Spain takes a sinister turn when he discovers his target is a deranged serial killer stalking the sacred Camino pilgrimage route. The murderer, driven by a warped religious fervor, brutally slaughters “sinners” in a ritualistic fashion.Joining forces with an unlikely alliance of the police and the Church, Nick must navigate a labyrinth of clues and his own c...

He was paid to clean up their mess. Now, he’s their biggest loose end.Nick Hunter is an old-fashioned bag ‘em and tag ‘em bounty hunter. His job is to track down people who don’t want to be tracked down and kill them for a price.The one golden rule that he has never broken is to leave no collateral damage. Ever.But when a CIA job in Bosnia goes wrong, he finds himself the target of a lethal conspiracy. Betrayed, hunted and alone, Nick must navigate a treacherous maz...

Tourism ‘mobilities’ are not restricted to the movement of tourists between places of origin and destinations. Particularly in more peripheral, remote, or sparsely populated destinations, workers and residents are also likely to be frequently moving between locations. Such destinations attract seasonal or temporary residents, sometimes with only loose ties to the tourism industry. These flows of mobile populations are accompanied by flows of other resources – money, knowledge, ideas and in...

Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing demographers working in remote regions, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from peripheral regions in developed nations. With the emphasis on human populations as dynamic, adaptive, evolving systems, it explores how populations respond in different ways to changing environmental, cultural and economic conditions and how effectively they manage these change processes. Theoreti...

Since the post World War Two boom in private automobile ownership, Drive Tourism has transformed the tourism landscape by facilitating dispersal and the growth of attractions and tourism related infrastructure beyond the zones that had previously emerged around seaports and railway terminals. The automobile has made regional dispersal possible and created opportunities for many small rural communities to supplement rural economies with a tourism economy. Drive Tourism is a popular form of ...

Taking Responsibility for Tourism is about the globally vital necessity of realising sustainable tourism. It is a hugely important challenge to those who organise and sell travel and tourism, and those who consume it. Taking Responsibility for Tourism is not a book about a niche product; major trade associations and large and small tour operators are committing to the objectives of responsible tourism and shouldering their responsibilities. This powerful new handbook is the most authoritat...

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation of culture in suburbs, focusing on Etobicoke and Mississauga outsid...

Written by leading international tourism researchers, this book examines the key trends in European tourism planning and organisation. It introduces a theoretical framework to tourism planning and organisation using a procedural and structural approach. Despite having a European focus, it is globally relevant as many lessons from Europe can be applied to international tourism development. The book identifies and discusses six key themes in the context of European tourism planning and organ...

Increasingly tourists are seeking learning and educational holidays. This interest has led to the provision of tourism product with some form of learning or education as an integral component, including cultural heritage tourism and ecotourism. The growth of offshore education and lifelong learning has stimulated cross-border movement for language learning, school excursions and university student travel. Reflecting this growth in educational tourism types, the author outlines the main for...

Second homes - the cottage, the summer house, the bach - are an important part of the tourism and leisure lifestyles of many people in the developed world. Second homes are therefore an integral component of tourism experiences in rural and peripheral areas. Yet, despite their significance not only for tourism but also for rural communities and the rural economy, relatively little research has been undertaken on the topic until recent times. This volume represents the first major internati...

The study of tourism and indeed the tourism industry is changing constantly. Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, considering issues such as the changing world order, destination marketing, tourism ethics and pro-poor tourism. In particular, it highlights the ongoing threats from terrorism and health scares faced by the tourism industry today, and discusses the related security and risk management strategies, illust...