Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal: A New Lease on Life documents the success story of an innovative rural development programme in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal.

Warm-water islands are a cohesive group of islands distinguished by their geography and remoteness, history as former colonial territories, and dependence on external stakeholders for their economic and social development.

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.

Love, Marriage, and Family in the JewishLaw and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language.

The subject of ‘magic’ has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo.

Temples for a Modern God is one of the first major studies of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and complicated set of issues that emerged just as one of the nation's biggest building booms unfolded.

The IATBR conference proceedings series has a history of over 30 years and is widely read by researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the field of transportation and urban planning in general, and in travel behaviour analysis in particular.

The Protestant Reformation emphasized the centrality of scripture to Christian life; the twentieth-century liturgical movement emphasized the Bible‘s place at the heart of liturgy.

This professional guidebook highlights brand development and management for cities, regions, countries, and destinations.

Volunteer tourism has increased in popularity and prevalence and is no longer considered only a small section of alternative tourism.

Training in research methods is increasingly important for students of tourism, and this broad, accessible textbook outlines the concepts and tools essential to understand, manage, and conduct research.

Landscape Liturgies offers outdoor worship material drawn from 2,000 years of outdoor Christian practice.

Destination branding and marketing form the backbone of tourism industry growth, but it is increasingly important that the strategies employed consider and promote sustainable solutions.

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

Why does the universe exist?

Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism encourages the belief that, through its faith and practices, spiritual and material blessings and benefits can be available to everyone in this life.

In these meditations on the lesser feasts and fasts of the church calendar Sam Portaro asks the question, "e;What do these saints and commemorations have to say to Christians today?

Liturgy is not a religious frill or Sunday morning ceremonial exercise.

Employer Branding (EB) aims to assist businesses in becoming the employer of choice for potential employees, and provides hands-on tools in attracting, developing and retaining people.

Many cities focused on tourist development and city marketing to keep their economies afloat during the financial crisis of 2008-2013, but the subsequent economic recovery saw a combination of growing visitor numbers, changing behavior patterns and price hikes, especially in real estate, that created the conditions for a 'perfect storm'.

Although most historical and contemporary religions are governed by men, there are, scattered throughout the world, a handful of well-documented religions led by women.

This book explores the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the business, hospitality, and tourism sectors, with a special focus on Eastern Europe.

The gap between theory and practice in the leisure, sport and tourism studies areas seems to have widened as scholars have become more specialized.

This comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism.

Handel's Israelite oratorios are today little known among non-specialists, but in their own day they were unique, pioneering and extremely popular.

Fully revised, Tourism, 2nd edition covers aspects of tourism from a modern perspective, providing students with a range of theoretical and research-based explanations, supported by examples, case studies and unique insights from industry representatives.

Pastoral Forms and Attitudes delves into the evolution of pastoral literature, showcasing its adaptability across genres and historical periods while retaining its thematic core.

The study of tourism and indeed the tourism industry is changing constantly.

The theme of this book is the phenomenon of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism.

Tourism Destination Quality: Attributes and Dimensions presents new research on tourism destination quality.

The Mindful Tourist presents the first comprehensive theoretical perspective on mindfulness in contemporary tourist experiences.

For more than 2,000 years, between 1500 BCE and 600 CE, the Egyptian processional oracle was one of the main points of contact between temple-based religion and the general population.

The Queen, when she was 21, declared that her whole life whether it was long or short would be devoted to service.

Hospitality and tourism is the second largest industry in the world and is a driver of job growth and economic prosperity, accounting for 1 in 10 jobs worldwide.

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice in the emerging field of creative tourism.

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

This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the PRC after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s.

This book recognizes that while tourism research has undoubtedly penetrated and gone beyond a number of knowledge frontiers, frontiers are never static, but are constantly shifting and changing form in the context of a dynamic environment.

In Greener Future: Building Sustainable Tourism Communities, a diverse array of contributors addresses the need for innovative and practical solutions for creating sustainable tourism communities.

From cover to cover, this book is full of imaginative, read-to-use liturgies, prayers and service outlines for the Christian year, including Pentecost, Trinity, Ordinary Time, Harvest, All Saints and All Souls.

Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved.

Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) have witnessed great upheaval and change over the last decade and a half - from the global economic recession of 2008, the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti, to hurricanes that devastated islands like Jamaica, Barbuda, Dominica and The Bahamas, volcanic eruptions, and health crises.

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

Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference.

The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised.

This title in the Building the Future of Tourism series offers a comprehensive overview of the significant challenges faced by the tourism industry in the area of sustainable development.