GLOSSARY OF TERMS

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Covering Sociology, History, Language, Communication, Economics, Media and Travel and Tourism.
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Critical realismCyborg
A priori
Abstract Expressionism/ Action painting
ABX model of communication
Acceleration factor
Accommodation with food and drink
Acculturation/ Accommodation/ Assimilation
Acronym
Action research
Action theory/ Action frame of reference
Actuality
Admass
Ad valorem
Add on fare
Adjoining rooms
Advance Purchase Extension (APEX)
Advertising
Aesthetic of poverty
Affective
After sales service
Agency/ Agency appointment
Agit prop
AIDA
Aircraft
Alienation/ Anomie
All in
Allegory
Allotment
Alphanumeric
Alternative tourism
Appropriate tourism
Anarchist cinema
Anchorage
Anecdote
Animator/ Animateur
Anti-novel
Apache silence
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Archaeology
Argument
Art nouveau
Art trouvé
Assign
Athens Convention
Audience/ Audience differentiation
Authenticity
Automatism
Avant-garde
Average room rate
Back to back Backward pricing
Baggage allowance
Balance of Payments
Bandwidth
Bardic television
Bauhaus
Behaviourism
Berne Convention
Bibliography
Bibliotherapy
Biomorhic
Black economy/ black market
Body without organs
Bonding
Body without organs
Boomerang response
Bowlderise
Brand
Breakfast
Bridlepath/ bridleway
British Summer Time (BST)
Brunch
Brussels Convention
Bucket shop/ Discount ticket agency
Brutalism
Bumping
Business cycle
Business mix
Business travel/ Business tourism
Cabotage
Campaign
Capital gearing
Capital intensive
Caravan
Carnet
Carnival
Carrier
Carrying capacity
Cartel
Caveatemptor
Census
Centrality
Chambers of Commerce
Chaos theory
Check in time
Chicago convention
Cinéma vérité/ Catalyst cinema
Circulation
Class
Classifieds/ Classified advertisements
Climax order
Cliché
Cliometrics
Clothing signals
Club
Clubs (Airline etc.)
Cluster analysis
Cocktail party problem/ Shadowing
Codes
Code of conduct/ Code of practice
Cognitive
Colligation
Commission
Common interest travel/ tourism
Common rated fares/ Common rated points
Commuter
Commuter airline/ Hub and spoke
Communication
Communication Integration
Complexity theory
Compulsory heterosexuality
Constructionism
Conceptual art
Congruence theory/ cognitivebalancetheory
Connotation
Consensus
Consistency
Conspiracy theory
Contagion effect
Content analysis
Context
Correspondence theory of truth
Cost benefit analysis (CBA)
Costplus pricing
Couchette
Country Park
Country Codes
Covering laws
Cover Charge
Creditcard/ Charge card/ Cheque guarantee card
Critical path analysis/ Network analysis
Cross elasticity of demand
Cruise
Cultural tourism/ Heritage tourism
Culture
Currency
Dadaism
Datum level/ Datum line
Day rate
Death of the author
Decoding
Deconstruction
Deconstructionist history
Deep throat
Defamation
Defamiliarisation
Demographics/ Demography
Demonstration effect
Dependency theory
Deregulation
Desensitisation
Desk research
Determinants of tourism
Determinism
Developed and developing countries
Deviant
Deutscher Werkbund
Diachronic linguistics
Dialogism
Differance
Difference
Differential perception
Differentiation
Digital television
Diffusion
Diminishing marginal returns
Direct cinema/ free cinema (older British version)
Direct mail and related promotions
Discourse
Discretionary income/ Disposable income
Displacement effect
Disqualifying communication/ Defensive communication
Dissonance
Diversification
Division of labour
Domestic excursionist/ domestic same-day visitor
Domestic tourist
Domestic visitor
Double coding
Double occupancy rate
Dramaturgical
Drive in restaurant
Drive through restaurant
Dry lease/ Wet lease
Dumping
Duty-free
Dyad and the Triad
Econometrics
Internal economies of scale/ External economies of scale
Ecosystem
Elapsed travel time/ Elapsed flying time
Elasticity of demand
Electronic person
Elite
Email/E-mail
Empathy
Empirical research
Empiricism
Emplotment
Encode
English service
Enlightenment (the)
Entropy
Entry requirements
Epicure
Epic theatre
Equity
Episteme
Epistemology
Ergonomics
Erotica
Ethnicity
Ethnocentrism
Ethnomethodology
Establishment
Euphemism
Eurodollars
Evidence
Expatriate
Expressionism
Extrapersonal communication
Eye effects/ Persistence of vision etc.
Faciliate/ Facilitation
Facsimile/ Fax
Fact
Familiarisation trip
Fare rebates/ reduced fares
Fares
Farm tourism/ Agricultural tourism/ Agritourism
Fauvism
Further Education (FE)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Feasability study
Feedback
Federation
Field research
Film noir
Flagship
Flight coupon
Flight numbers
folk culture
Franchising
Frankfurt School
Free House
Freeport
Friction in the market
Functionalism
Galley
Game reserve
Gateway
Gate Keeper
General Household Survey (GHS)
Gerbners model of communication
Gestalt psychology
Ghosting
Glasgow University Media Group
Gourmand/ Gourmet
Grand Tour
Graphicrevolution
Gratuity
Gravity Model
Green belt
Grey market
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Gross national Product (GNP)
Ground arrangements
H certificate
Hard copy
Hard sell
Hard tourism
Hedonism
Hegemony
Helical model of communication
Hermeneutics
Heritage
Heritage coasts
Hierarchy of needs
Higher Education (HE)
Historical
Historical interpretation
Hold
Holiday
Holistic/ Holism
Homophilious
Horizontal integration
Horse opera
Hub and spoke system
Hype
Hypodermic needle model of communication
Hypothetical fare construction points
Ideology
Imperfect competition
Impositionalism
Impression management
Income elasticity of demand
Index number
Induction/ Deduction
Industrial revolution
Industrialisation
Inference
Intergovernmental Organisation (IGO)
Information Technology (IT)/ Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Insult signals
Intepretant
Interpretation centre
International English/ Business English
Internet
Intervening variables
Intimisme
Invented tradition
Investment
Invisible exports and Invisible imports
Issues
Jakobson's model of communication
Jazz
Jet lag
Kinesics/ Kineme/ Kinemorphs
Kinetic art
KISS
Kitsch
Kuleshov effect
Labelling
LAN
Laissez faire
Langue/ Parole
Latitude/ Longitude
Law of minimum effects
Law of total situtation
Leakages/ Linkages
Leg
Legal tender
Linguistic turn
Linguistics
Lord Chamberlain
Logocentrism
McDonaldisation
Magic realism
Male as norm
Management
Market
Marketing
Marketing mix
Mass Observation/ Mass Observation Unit
Mass society
Mass tourism
Materialist cinema
Meaning
Medium
Medium is the message
Message
Metaphor
Metanarrative
Metasignal
Metonymy
Microfiche/ PDF
Model
Monopoly
Montage
Mores
Morse Code
Mosaic model of communication
Modernism/modernist
Multi-actuality
Multiplier effect
Musique concrète
Myth
Myth of abundance
Narcoticising Dysfunction
Narrative
Narrowcasting
National Film Archive
Naturalistic illusion
Neologism
Neon-realism
Non-realism
New Historicism
New Journalism
New Objectivity
New Wave
New World Order
News framework
News values
Noise
Nomadic thought
Non price competition
Non Governmental Organisation (NGO)
Nouveau réalisme
Nouveau roman
Obsolescence
Occupancy
Official Secrets Act
Oligopoly
Onomatopoeia
Openness
Operational research or Operations research (OR)
Opinion leader
Opinion Poll
Opportunity cost
Optical Character Reading (OCR)
Opus
Oral culture
Organic architecture
Organisation culture
Overhearing
Ownership
Package
Packaging
Papparazzi
Para-linguistics
Para-proxemics
Para-social interaction
Paradigm
Participant Observation
Passengers
Passivity
Pavlovian response
Pay television
Pedagogy
Perfect competition
Periodicity
Phonemics/ Phonology
Photography
Photomontage
Phototypesetting
Pied-à-terre
Pidgin English
Pilot study
Pirate radio
Plagiarism
Play theory of mass communication
Pluralist
Politics of accommodation
Pop Music
Populist
Pornography
Positivism
Posters
Post-industrial society
Postmodernism
Post-structuralism
Pragmatics
Price competition
Price discrimination
Price elasticity of demand
Price pegging
Primary group
Primary industries
Problems and Communication
Productivity
Printing
Product life cycle
Propoganda
Proxemics
Public relations (PR)
Publicity
Purpose of trip
Push-pull theory
Rack rate
Radio
Rate of exchange
Rate-of-return pricing
Ratings
Readership
Reality-effect
Reality television
Received Pronounciation (RP)
Reconstructionism
Reconfirmation
Redundancy
References
Referral
Referentiality
Regression analysis
Relativism
Representation
Resident alien
Resort
Resort representative ("Rep")
Response rate
Rhetoric
Rhizomatic structures
Riley and Riley model of mass communiation
Role
Rounding
Rumour
Rural tourism
Rushes or Dailies
Safari
Salience
Salutation display
Samizdat/ Tamizdat
Sampling
STEAM (originally Scarborough Tourism Economic Analysis Model)
Scheduled ancient monument
Scheduled transport
Scheduling (in TV and radio)
Schramm's models of communication
Seat pitch
Secondary industries
Sector
Segment
Semantics
Semiotics
Sensitisation
Service charge
Services
Seven seas
The Seven Wonders of the World
Shore excursion
Shorthand
Shoulder period
Shuttle
Sign
Significant others
Significant symbolisers
Signification
Signification spiral
Single supplement
Sins of Omission
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
Soap opera or Soap
Social realism
Social tourism
Socialism
Sociodrama
Sociology
Sociometrics
Soft loan
Software
Solarise
Sole trader
Spa
Special Protected Areas
Special Protection Areas
Splurchase
Spoiler
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)/ Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
Standard of Living
Standby
Status quo or Status quo ante
Stereo
Stereotype
Stopover
Storyboard
Stream of Consciousness
Stretching
Striping
Structuralism
Style
Subculture
Sunlust
Sunrise/ Sunset
Superstructure
Suprematism
Surcharge
Surrealism
Sustainable tourism
SWOT
Symbol
Synchronous sound/ Talkies
Syndicated survey
Synergy
Syntactics
Syntax
Table tent
Taboo
Tabloid
Tender
Telegraph
Telemarketing
Television
Terms of trade
Tertiary industries
Theatre-in-the-nude
Theatre-in-the-round
Theatre of cruelty
Theatre of disturbance
Theatre of mirrors
Theatre of panic or Théâtre Panique
Theatre of silence
Theatre of the absurd
Theme park
Thesis journalism
Third Age
Third World
Threshold
Throwaway
Ticket Point Mileage (TPM)
Tied house
Time series analysis
Time Shift Viewing
Timeshare
Tonnage
Tour operator
Tourism
Tourism balance
Tourism multiplier/ Tourist expenditure impacts
Tourist
Tourist ghetto or tourist enclave
Tourist Information Centre (TIC)
Tourist attraction or Visitor attraction
Trade Association
Trade Union
Trading down/ Trading up
Traditional transmission
Trail
Transfer
Transit traveller
Travellers cheque
Tronc
Trope/ Figuration
Typage
U and non U
Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
United Kingdom Tourism Survey
Up market/ Upgrade
Urbanisation
Uses and gratifications theory
Value added
Value Added Tax (VAT)
Values
Values and codes: dominant, subordinate/ negotiated, radical/ oppositional
Vertical integration
Video nasties
Violence
Visa
Visitor
Wanderlust
Waterpark
Wesley and MacLean's model of communication
The West
Westminster view
White collar
Work Study/ Organisation and Methods (O&M)
World Heritage Site
World Wide Web
Xenophobia
Yield Management
Youth culture
Zoöpraxography