Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism.

It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places.

The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and social analysis in this book.

This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead.

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed.

Did you know that Christmas is not the only holiday celebrated in December?

Grace before meals is the prayer said most often in homes around the world, an act of worship common to every known society.

Beyond the gifts and spirit, Christmas is a definite religious celebration.

You celebrate Thanksgiving every year but what's the true essence of the celebration?

The primary purpose of Prophetic Liturgy is to inquire into the prophetic dimension of the liturgy.

The hospitality model called "e;Albergo Diffuso"e; (AD), or "e;scattered hotel,"e; has been engneered by Mr Giancarlo Dall'Ara and described by The New York Times as a way of bringing life back to historic towns and rural hamlets by utilizing unused rooms for tourism.

Destination marketing relies on planning, organisation, and successful strategies and tactics.

Designed primarily for the layperson, The Catholic Imagination is a journey through the liturgical year by way of weekly reflections on the life of the church.

The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events.

Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora.

A Postmodern Theology of Ritual Action is a unique work that seeks to explore where we find meaning within ritual and actions within the church.

The volume advances theory on hospitality meanings from both conscious and unconscious processing of stimuli (sights, actions, consequences).

Marketing Places and Spaces' covers a broad range of issues that hospitality and tourism executives will benefit from addressing, but frequently forget to do so.

This volume examines and contrasts different perspectives on and approaches to the geography of tourism from across European regions and language traditions.

Religious faith is a powerful source of comfort and support for individuals and families facing dementia.

Understanding World Christianity: Russia is a broad examination of Christianity--especially Orthodox Christianity--in modern Russia.

Gail Ramshaw provides ten insights into the three-year lectionaries to guide all who are interested in exploring the meaning and importance of the Revised Common Lectionary and the Lectionary for Mass.

The author writes:"e;The focus of this book is on Judaism as it expresses itself in the Jewish holidays.

The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer.

This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic use of mega-events in its modern development.

Winner of two 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: The Future of the Church (First Place), and Pastoral Ministry Catechetical (Third Place).

This book addresses the various sustainability issues that the tourism industry has faced over time like the trend from over-tourism to under-tourism or from tourism in increasingly distant destinations to a new local tourism with new needs.

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

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

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

What are the implications of mass tourism and globalization for the field of archaeology?

This book deals broadly with tourism planning and development from the perspective of Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination which is fast becoming one of the most popular vacation spots in the European Union.

This book explores the impact of design science and design thinking on tourism planning, gathering contributions from leading authorities in the field of tourism research and providing a comprehensive and interconnected panorama of cutting-edge results that influence the current and future design of tourist destinations.

This book studies the transformation of modern maritimity practices in coastal areas (such as swimming, navigation and tourism) and their implications to the development of Brazilian coastal cities, with an emphasis on the Northeast part of the country.

This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes.

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.

This book presents the foundations for the future of tourism in a structured and detailed format.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the older-tourist market, and of the challenges and opportunities created by population ageing from a tourism marketing perspective, by combining a demand-side and a supply-side approach to older tourists.

This book provides the first-ever overview of and guide to the geological setting and related features of the famous, volcanically active Galapagos Islands, as well as an in-depth analysis of the setting's relationship to the region's unique and iconic ecology, and its conservation.

The book provides a holistic approach to wine destination management and marketing by bringing together wine tourism research with research in wine and destination management.

This book features the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the 5th International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference, held in Munich, Germany in 2019.

Der Tagungsband umfasst die im Rahmen der "Culinary and Wine Tourism Conference 2015" präsentierten Paper und Konzepte rund um das Thema Kulinarik- und Weintourismus.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

The term 'overtourism' has come into prominence since 2017 and refers to the fact that, due to various factors such as more sophisticated marketing strategies, a large number of tourists visit the same place at the same time.

This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways in which 'adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by, the world around them.

This book examines the many ways in which innovative technologies represent a powerful development tool for the tourism and leisure sector and presents novel strategies based on these technologies that foster sustainable tourism management and promote sustainable destinations.

This textbook explores the fundamental principles of marketing applied to tourism and hospitality businesses, placing special emphasis on SMEs in the international tourism industry.

Gabriele Augsbach überträgt allgemeine Globalisierungsansätze auf den globalen Tourismus, zeigt die Schattenseiten und Risiken des Tourismus auf und legt gleichzeitig die Chancen durch einen nachhaltig gestalteten Tourismus dar.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the tourism market development in Central and Eastern European countries.