Food Service Operations in the Cruise Industry

Food service on a cruise ship presents some unique challenges. A review of food service in the cruise industry is presented along with some ideas on the future. The case is made for a change in traditional operations with a move toward greater use of computer-driven management techniques.

The Travel Industry: What's in a Name?

The travel and tourism industry is enormous in both size and importance. There can be little doubt that the field is striving to accommodate the diversity of opinion concerning what the industry is and how it can be improved and enlarged even further. Resistance to critiquing long-held beliefs about the industry may inhibit its future. Deconstruction, a postmodern method of analysis, is proposed as one tool with which to engage in reflection upon what the industry is and where it may be headed.

Yield Management: Where We've Been, Where We Are, Where We're Going

The author describes yield management and the technology used to implement yield management in hotels, issues in usefulness, and legal issues concerning the use of yield management. A look into the future is provided, along with a critique of what further research may be needed in order to raise the level of usefulness of yield management systems in the hotel industry to that found in the airlines.

In My Opinion… Good Intentions Don't Count

While simple guest surveys can be poorly constructed with little negative consequences, often surveys are used in making important policy decisions. Researchers and policy makers must carefully construct their research instruments in order to avoid biases which may result in muddled or incorrect responses. The authors review the process of creating, administering, and analyzing surveys with an eye toward reducing survey bias to a minimum. Reliable results require a rigorous and careful approach when creating and using instruments.

Marcel Cousins : every little thing

This review considers the artwork of Melbourne artist Marcel Cousins showed at Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane in April 2012. The review traces Cousins' doctoral study in Tokyo. It then assesses his paintings and installations that explore the transformation of generic objects in exhibition contexts, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of such processes.

Amor, muerte y esperanza : reflexiones desde Gabriel Marcel

Resumen: No vivimos solos ni morimos solos. Por ello el acompañamiento del enfermo terminal desde una actitud de amor, sostenido en su base por la esperanza trascendente, es ciertamente necesario como actitud cristiana de donación, y su reflexión se incorpora a toda antropología que no deje de lado la tanatología. Si la antropología margina el “thanatos”, se torna fragmentaria e incompleta. Morir no es el fin de la biografía que le “pasa” a los demás: es la experiencia universal a la cual cada uno ha de prepararse. Este asunto será analizado teniendo como guía a un destacado filósofo francés, Gabriel Marcel, quien, de algún modo, ha dado luz con sus escritos y su preocupación vital sobre esta temática.

Oratio dominica CL linguis versa, et propriis cujusque linguae characteribus plerumque expessa : edente J. J. Marcel, typographeii imperialis administro generali

Referência: Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres /Jacques-Charles Brunet. 1862. v.3. pg.1394.

Distributed Sounding Art – Practices in Distributing Sound (eds. Barry Truax, Marcel Cobussen and Vincent Meelberg)

This chapter examines distributed sounding art by focusing on three key aspects that we consider essentially tied to the notion of distribution: assignment, transport and sharing. These aspects aid us in navigating through a number of nodes in a history of sounding art practices where sound becomes assigned, transported and shared between places and people. Sound or data become distributed, and in the process of distribution, meanings become assigned and altered through differing socio-cultural contexts of places and people. We have selected several works, commencing in the 1960’s as we consider this period as having produced some of the seminal works that address distribution.
We draw on works by composers, performers and sound artists and thus present a history of sounding art, which is amongst the many histories of sounding art in the 20th and 21st century.