Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

Monster hunting is more than just going out into the woods or hanging out in graveyards.

Accounts of U.

This book provides an overview of the history and evolution of tourism to the present, and speculates on possible and probable change into the future.

This book provides a detailed account of the global hotel industry with a focus on managerial work and people management.

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference.

Greenland is becoming a critically important territory in terms of tourism, climate change and competition for resource access, yet it has been poorly represented in academic literature.

Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts.

Languages convey messages, have a heuristic or semantic content, and operate through a conventional system of symbols and codes.

To meet the rising demand for scientific evidence in the context of rural tourism research, this book explores tourism and tourism-related diversification activities performed by farming households and entrepreneurs in rural communities.

The mystery of God has fascinated people of all generations.

Schlafer looks at the preacher's task at the "e;high times"e; of the church and the secular year, those occasions on which expectations run high and emotions can be intense.

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.

Health and Wellness Tourism takes an innovative look at this rapidly growing sector of today's thriving tourism industry.

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

Tourism Marketing: A Strategic Approach presents a variety of practical application tools, skills, practices, models, approaches, and strategies that are proving themselves effective in tourism marketing.

This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed papers from the 2022 6th International Conference on Applied Economics and Business (ICAEB), which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, during August 24-26, 2022.

Despite the ever-increasing interest in eye tracking, there is still no comprehensive work on the potential and applications of table-mounted and mobile head-mounted eye tracking solutions in travel and tourism.

Behold What You Are is written to open the possibilities of liturgy and liturgical awareness, in the church and of the church, Sunday by Sunday, season by season.

This is the first in a series of books commissioned in consultation with John Sentamu.

Trouble in the Diocese is a petulant, funny book of poetry.

This book focuses on women in tourism in Muslim countries, specifically where a woman can be seen as a tourism consumer, or a woman producing tourism.

This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europe's tourism economy during the 20th century.

The tourism industry provides a vital lifeline in helping to develop and enhance the economic growth of cities, states, and nations, but there is growing concern internationally about how overtourism in certain regions is having an adverse impact on a number of tourist destinations.

What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism?

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

This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist experiences.

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.

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.

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

Since it first appeared in print in 1959, John Doberstein's Minister's Prayer Book has been a devotional classic among Lutheran pastors.

The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic, witchcraft, and superstitious practices such as popular spells or charms from antiquity to the present day.

Tourism has become the world's largest industry, according to the World Tourism Organization; no surprise when one considers that it incorporates the world's oldest profession.

With diverse and robust voices, women are reclaiming their place at the seder table.

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

There is an unbridged gap between human aspirations to travel into space and the barriers to realizing such dreams.

Discover the ultimate companion to creating mouth-watering drinks and treats at home.

This book presents cutting edge research on the development of analytics in travel and tourism.

Ernst Troeltsch was a theologian and sociologist but he was also a philosopher of culture.

This book investigates resource-constrained environments in the tropics and subtropics where people's lives and businesses are affected, and adaptations occur periodically.

Dedicated to the growing field of food and drink tourism and culinary engagement, Sally Everett offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject, embracing theories and examples from numerous subject disciplines.

This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

The tomb of Christ at Jerusalem was a vital influence in the making of Western Europe.

Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores the promises and expectations of tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to the challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other.