Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

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.

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.

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

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.

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

This book takes the reader beyond net effects and main and interaction effects thinking and methods.

This book explores the ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies, and methods that inform tourism qualitative research conducted either by Asian scholars or non-Asian scholars focusing on Asia.

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 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.

The purpose of this book is twofold.

This book covers a very broad range of topics in marketing, communication, and tourism, focusing especially on new perspectives and technologies that promise to influence the future direction of marketing research and practice in a digital and innovational era.

This book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, from global and specific approaches, combining different views, perceptions and senses.

This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on 'special interest tourism' and 'niche tourism' as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo-tribes.

This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of non-academic research impact in relation to a marginal field of study, namely tourism studies.

In Regenerative Tourism Industry, authors Geetanjali Sageena and Suneel Kumar take an in-depth and practical approach to regenerative tourism.

This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015.

This book looks at various aspects of tourism education in Asian countries and the impacts of sustainable development in tourism education to the Asian student markets.

A key tool in creating a destination experience is the experience economy.

This contributed volume introduces the innovative landscapes and business models used in tourism entrepreneurship initiatives of Portugal and Spain.

This book presents a comparative study on various issues regarding legal aspects of cruises - mainly, the importance of the cruise business, the impact of cruise tourism, general and specific rules applicable to cruises, liability issues, cruise passengers as consumers, package travel, labor rules for cruise workers, relevant rules on ports (e.

This book provides an end-to-end view of revenue management in the hospitality industry.

This book, the first of two volumes, uses a framework of philosophical anthropology, and the concepts of humanistic leadership and humanistic management, to explore the value of work in the hospitality and tourism industry.