Impatiens: As current publisher for the Academic Press for WUaS, how could we publish this upcoming tourism studies'"tourism governance" book focusing on about 20 countries in all ~200 countries' main languages, such that it was also easy for people involved in key tourism discourses/cultures in each of these countries (academics, intellectuals, highest achieving students, tourism ministry officials, planners, information technology professionals, etc.) to a) want to read this, b) read this book when it's published and c) increase highest quality foreign tourism to their countries by d) 1-10% and their countries' benefit from the related revenues?, Many people in the room - many of whom were graduate students - would also make excellent editors in their many languages, If WUaS seeks on its For-Profit side to grow its stock price by 11% per year, how many copies and in which countries would the Academic Press at WUaS have to sell every year for the next decade or so, so that this book contributed to the hypothetical WUaS.com's stock price?, Skills in analysis and writing

As current publisher for the Academic Press for WUaS, how could we publish this upcoming tourism studies' book focusing on about 20 countries in all ~200 countries' main languages, such that it was also easy for people involved in key tourism discourses/cultures (academics, intellectuals, highest achieving students, tourism ministry officials, planners, information technology professionals, etc.) in each of these countries to a) want to read this, b) read this book when it's published and c) increase highest quality foreign tourism to their countries by d) 1-10% and their countries' benefit from the related revenues?

After attending a Tourism Studies' Working Group meeting at UC Berkeley yesterday evening in the Anthropology department about an upcoming book on Tourism Governance - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/TSWGCall2016_Gohar.htm and http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/TourismGovernanceMtg2_2016.htm - edited by a doctoral candidate in the department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Amir Gohar, I wondered how as current publisher for the Academic Press for World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - could publish this.

As I asked at the end of the session to everyone there, and having just published "Naked Harbin Ethnography" in the Academic Press at WUaS via CreateSpace (http://bit.ly/HarbinBook and https://www.createspace.com/6072369), a subsidiary, like Kindle, of Amazon.com, which makes books available in 3 prosperous countries' currencies (dollars, pounds and euros), and to the developing world countries in a few other currencies, how could WUaS, using machine translation into all countries' main languages, make this available easily in terms of currencies as well?

I asked furthermore given WUaS's a) all languages with machine translation, and b) WUaS's planned "for-profit" side foci, how WUaS could help China (or people in each country that read the chapter on their countries) improve tourism by 1% with this book to gain the monetary benefits of this increase in travelers (which would be an enormous financial gain for China), and b) how WUaS could get this book into all countries' languages for easy access and purchase (by libraries and academics, etc.) perhaps in a different way than CreateSpace/Amazon with it's somewhat limited markets/currencies (and which don't have machine translation services that I've seen).

Having heard a number of presentations earlier in the evening, one by the amazing Dean MacCannell via Skype, a number of TSWG people then suggested focusing this upcoming book on Tourism Governance on "best practices."

I mentioned how I think Dean MacCannell's "The Tourist" (1976) has been translated into something like 18, 20 or 22 languages, and just because people wanted to translate it into their languages, not because one of its Academic Presses orchestrated this. I also suggested that Amir have a one-to-one conversation with Dean about his ideas for this book.

Nelson Graburn, who had his 1976 "Ethnic Arts" book there, said he thinks Dean's book has sold more than 500,000 copies, far more than any other author in the room.

Many people in the room - many of whom were graduate students - would also make excellent editors in their many languages (as jobs at WUaS, for example), I also added.

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If WUaS seeks on its For-Profit side to grow its stock price by 11% per year, how many copies and in which countries would the Academic Press at WUaS have to sell every year for the next decade or so, so that this book contributed to WUaS's stock price to sustain such regular growth?

I think Dean's smarts and skill in writing and knowledge of tourism (with Nelson) would both potentially make such a book realizable and very attractively readable, due to their skills in analysis and writing.

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Hi Mathilde and All!