Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

Easter is more than just the fun activity of egg hunting.

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Christmas is more than just gift-giving.

The Reformed tradition of worship in England has given the English-speaking world the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, and the hymns of Isaac Watts.

Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies.

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

Funerals are among the most important life events in Western society, and fashioning a personalized ceremony for yourself or for a loved one is often the most meaningful way to celebrate the life of the deceased.

Sixty years after its birth, contemporary tourism is at crossroads.

Tourism services all over the world currently face rapid changes due to market globalization, intensified competition and the dynamic evolution of new technologies.

The authors propose that complexity theory holds great promise in improving understanding of guests' evaluations of their service experiences.

The book examines the extent to which Coser's (1956) 16 propositions can apply to tourism impact studies and, where possible, to enhance, deepen and challenge the original theory, using evidence from communities in China that differ from the context used by Coser.

This volume addresses the transformative power of tourism social media and offers novel theoretical and methodological approaches to its academic investigation.

This field guide provides methods and studies on how-to-do case study research in natural settings.

The Five Pillars of Islam is a comprehensive and practical manual on the fundamental beliefs and practices of a Muslim and provides an understanding of the true spirit of worship in Islam.

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.

The planning, design, management and marketing of experiences for tourism markets is a major challenge for tourism destinations and providers in a globalized and highly competitive market.

The book aims to address topics such as tourism education and its development in the latter part of the twentieth century, taking "e;tourism"e; to be a broader field than "e;hospitality.

This volume sheds light on the complex linkages between tourism, disaster and conflict.

Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail.

In How to Make Things Happen, we learnt that knowledge is the fundamental driver of service efficiency.

Gathering the outcomes of the 27th annual international eTourism conference ENTER2020, this book presents new research, innovative systems and industry case studies on the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in travel and tourism.

This book presents a collection of the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference 2018 in Manchester, UK, and showcases how augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are transforming the business landscape.

Filling a gap in existing literature on revenue management systems, this book explores the use of business strategies which are specifically designed to have a positive impact on economic and financial efficiency.

Unarguably, preserving the ecosystem, securing sustainability and understanding the dynamics of agro-food chains have all become vital policy objectives with several interlinked dimensions.

This book examines both how tourist behavior is being shaped by the new tourism products and segments that are appearing on the European market and how the tourist experience influences post-trip evaluation of destinations and of tourism and hospitality businesses.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics presents selected theoretical and empirical papers from the 25th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 2018.

This book provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of tourist destination management and presents important recent research in the field.

This book addresses the application of sustainable HRM principles within tourism in the specific context of Africa, a neglected area of study.

This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events.

This book examines the drivers of inbound medical tourism in Germany.

This book explores the understanding, description, and measurement of the physical, sensory, social, and emotional features of motorcycle and bicycle journey experiences in tourism.

This book examines rural tourism across three different contexts, acknowledging the complexity of rural places.

This book discusses how tourism between neighboring countries like Poland and Germany is hindered despite the Schengen Treaty.

Urban regeneration is often regarded as the process of renewal or redevelopment of spaces and places.

This book focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space.

 This book explores the basic traits of inter-organizational networks, examining the interplay between structure, dynamics, and performance from a governance perspective.

This volume provides the latest outcomes of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) research conducted in various industries.

Service operations management in the tourism and hospitality industry requires a high level of coordination, communication and facilitation to satisfy visitors.

This book introduces readers to a powerful method for cross-cultural due diligence in mergers and organizational collaborations.

This book discusses the the integration between tourism and heritage and strategies to achieve sustainability in the tourism sector.

This volume comprises a selection of papers describing the main features of the Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands Geopark (Canary Archipelago, Spain).

This book analyses from a management perspective how the aviation industry can achieve a sustainability transformation in order to reach the Paris climate targets for 2050 and provides various strategic and operational recommendations in this regard.

This book argues that COVID-19 revives a much deeper climate of terror which was instilled by terrorism and the War on Terror originally declared by Bush's administration in 2001.

This book describes famous geosites and historical localities in national parks and conservation areas from North America, East Africa, and Europe.

Generation Z (Gen Z) is the demographic cohort also known as Post-Millennials, the iGeneration or the Homeland Generation.

This book explores the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer a powerful tool for the development of smart tourism.

This book presents state-of-the-art research into the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.

This book examines and analyzes tourism consumption and tourist experiences, employing a systematic and case study-driven perspective.

This book explores the distinct nuisances and obstacles that are brought on by the tourism and travel industry within Caribbean small island developing countries (SIDS).