Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Recreation and Tourism Programme, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
H.E. Dunsmore
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
|
|
William Theobald Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Recreation and Tourism Programme, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA H.E. Dunsmore Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
Designed for those in the leisure and tourism businesses so that students, academics and practitioners can locate the latest economic statistics and demographics, get information about government agencies and their programs, or learn about universities' web sites. Internet Resources for Leisure and Tourism will benefit practitioners who want to access the myriad of opportunities the World Wide Web offers in providing important information on professional developments as well as up-to-the-minute statistics on international as well as domestic visitor arrivals and departures, information on forthcoming meetings and conferences, or details of contents in periodicals.
Internet Resources for Leisure and Tourism contains a
number of special features:
Biographies of the authors
Dr. William Theobald is Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the
Recreation and Tourism Programme in the Purdue University Health,
Kinesology and Leisure Studies Department. He held those positions
from 1977 until his retirement in 1999. In addition, he held a joint
appointment in the Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and
Tourism Management. His teaching and research areas are leisure and
tourism, specifically related to planning, development and evaluation
issues.
He received his bachelor's degree from Seton Hall University in New Jersey, and holds the master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York.
Professor Theobald worked as a community recreation administrator in Long Island (N.Y.) for over twelve years; Director of the Leisure Studies Curriculum at Brooklyn College (N.Y.) from 1968 to 1974; Chairman of the Department of Recreation at the University of Waterloo (Canada) from 1974 to 1977; and Chair of the Leisure Studies Division at Purdue University from 1977 to 1999. He has also served as Visiting Professor of Tourism Planning and Development at both the George Washington University, and the University of Surrey in Guildford, England.
He has written five books including Global Tourism: The Next Decade and The Evaluation of Recreation and Park Programmes, twenty planning and feasibility studies, and over forty articles on tourism and recreation, and has contributed papers at international meetings in Canada, China, England, Hong Kong, Italy, Sweden and the United States. He has received a number of grants and contracts, one of which was from the Chinese Government to organize and conduct a research seminar for travel and tourism officials and academics in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.
He is Past-President of The National Society of Park and Recreation
Educators, The New York State Recreation and Park Association, The
Long Island Park and Recreation Society, and the Wabash Valley Trust
for Historic Preservation.
Dr. H. E. (Buster) Dunsmore is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Dr. Dunsmore's
research areas include the Internet, the World-Wide Web, Web browsers,
Website design and implementation, software engineering, C, C++, and
Java programming, object-oriented design and programming, and
information systems.
Buster was a National Lecturer for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1984-1986. He was a member of the program committee for the first Human Factors in Computer Systems Conference, March, 1982, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a member of the program committee for the Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, June, 1986, in Washington, DC, a member of the advisory committee and program committee for the First International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August, 1987, in Honolulu, and a member of the program committee for the Fourth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, September, 1991, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dr. Dunsmore has extensive industrial consulting experience with IBM and AT&T. He has written over 60 technical articles. He is coauthor of the books Software Engineering Metrics and Models (with Sam Conte and Vincent Shen) and Internet Resources for Tourism and Leisure (with William Theobald).
Buster has taught courses about the Internet, the World-Wide Web, software engineering, C and C++ programming, object-oriented design and programming, information systems, management information systems, database management systems, psychology of human-computer interaction, programming languages, algorithm development, structured programming, commercial data processing, and telecommunications.
Dr. Dunsmore is a 1996 recipient of the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding
Undergraduate Teacher Award for Purdue University. He was selected in
1998 as a member of the Purdue University chapter of Mortar Board
(national honor society that recognizes college students and faculty
for their achievements in scholarship, leadership, and service). He
was nominated in 1998 by Purdue University for the Carnegie Foundation
U.S. Professor of the Year program. He was chosen as a Founding
Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy in 1997. He was
selected Outstanding Teacher in the School of Science at Purdue
University in 1980. Dr. Dunsmore was selected one of the Top Ten
Teachers in the School of Science in 1994, 1995, and 2000. He is a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Upsilon Pi Epsilon (honor society for
the computing sciences).
Contents
Chapter 1. What in the World is the Internet?
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 1
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 2
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 3
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 4
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 5
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 6
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 7
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 8
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 9
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 10
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Chapter 11
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Appendix A
Appendix B. Favoured Leisure and Tourism Websites
Additions, Corrections, and Useful Information concerning Appendix B
Readership: Tourism students and lecturers, tourism practitioners
ISBN: 0750646446 Paperback
Pages: 192pp
Book Publication Date: Monday, October 18, 1999
Accompanying Website Last Change Date: Monday, July 23, 2001
© Butterworth-Heinemann 2001