Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

Sacred Living for Each SeasonCelebrate life: What is sacred living?

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

Timeless Wisdom is a collection of universal texts for study, meditation, and inspiration, selected by Eknath Easwaran, the originator of passage meditation.

This introductory text provides readers with a robust understanding of tourism and its industries, including how destinations are developed, marketed and managed, and how tourism impacts communities, environments and economies.

Each Other's Angels: Practicing Personalism in the Catholic Worker Tradition introduces readers to author Toni Flynn's vision of justice and compassion, informed by the Scriptures and inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.

This book presents the re-theorisation of travel and transformation.

As other industries, the global travel and tourism industry has been facing - mense challenges and highly visible upheaval since the beginning of the new m- lennium.

Dieses Buch beleuchtet das Themenfeld New Work und setzt sich mit den Herausforderungen auseinander, denen Tourismusunternehmen auf dem Weg in eine sich verändernde Arbeitswelt begegnen.

The hotel industry has gone through important transformations, not only in terms of management and operation but also in terms of interaction with consumers.

Cutting Edge Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism sits at the forefront of fast-paced developments in the tourism and hospitality industry, highlighting the importance of applied and pure research to address the theoretical and practical problems and gaps.

This book draws together empirical research across a range of contemporary examples of food tourism phenomenon in Asia to provide a holistic picture of their role and influence.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

A highly-acclaimed account of the sacramental principle and the seven sacraments of the church.

This book investigates the consequences of mountaineering (hiking, trekking, climbing) on the natural environment.

For introductory hospitality or tourism courses A comprehensive, international view of the business of tourism The engaging writing style and hundreds of updated industry examples make Tourism: The Business of Hospitality and Travel, 6th Edition, the perfect textbook for students taking their first hospitality or tourism class.

This book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents.

If you're religious about your coffee, you're in holy company.

Heritage and its preservation is a major concern around the world.

Through the lens of praising and honouring God, the liturgy of Christians sheds a unique light on their monotheistic beliefs.

"e;If you ain't got no proposition, you ain't got no sermon neither.

This edited book represents one of the first scholarly research through an international collaboration project between Japan and Italy to address economic and social values of cultural heritage beyond its inherent-historic, archaeological, or aesthetic-values.

Tourism in Turkey: A Comprehensive Overview and Analysis for Sustainable Alternative Tourism is an informative study that analyzes the Turkish tourism from a variety of different perspectives and sheds light on its vast economic and social impacts.

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

This book explores how identity plays a pivotal role in tourism consumption.

Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature.

This brief presents a concise description of the existing spaceport market, the technologies being tested and developed at them, and the private companies that are making them possible.

From restaurants to resorts, the hospitality industry demands strong operations management to delight guests, develop employees, and deliver financial returns.

Most discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box.

Celebrating the spirit of songIn A Song to Sing, a Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning music by exploring the spiritual dimensions of music itself.

The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order.

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices.

Explore how lifestyle concepts are linked to marketing the hospitality and tourism industryHospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is a comprehensive benchmark review of how lifestyle concepts can be applied to the hospitality and tourism industry.

This book discusses how pleasure, as an emotional motivation, can play a leading role in improving the learning of new cognitive skills and abilities.

Travel journalism about natural attractions is environmental communication at the cusp of consumerism and concern.

Vom Neujahrstag bis zu Silvester: Die Traditionen im Alpenraum rund ums JahrBrauchtum und Rituale haben etwas Beruhigendes an sich: Sie strukturieren den Alltag und sind oft so in Fleisch und Blut übergegangen, dass sie ganz ohne Nachdenken ausgeführt werden.

This peer-reviewed publication adds value to the previous edition.

This book comprises studies that reflect on various influences of excessive tourism development in protected areas, and solutions designed and initiated to mitigate such challenges.

This book is intended as a devotional guide for the Advent season.

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!

This book approaches the tourism and hospitality industry from a regional science perspective.

Tourism Routes and Trails plunges into the world of 'extended' tourism, offering an exploration of the 'routes' phenomenon whereby tourism is no longer for a given destination, but extends over multiple sites, a territory or landscape.

Using a combination of theoretical discussion and real-world case studies, this book analyses the use of robotics, artificial intelligence and services automation (RAISA) within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries.

In the ever-evolving realm of retail commerce, the confluence of groundbreaking technologies is not merely a trend but a transformative force reshaping the industry's very foundations.

This book provides a management perspective on the full historical, contemporary, and geographic landscape of hospitality and tourism (H&T) in Africa.

This book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT).

The measurement of tourism, for example analysing competitiveness and evaluating tourism projects, is not an easy task.

ENTER has now met for six years, providing a valuable forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and debate their ideas and perspectives regarding the nature and role of tourism and information technology in global society.