Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2020), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 29th to 31st October 2020.

This book covers multiple areas such as technology and the type of application in aviation, tourism and hospitality with looking at current and future technology application, as well as in a rural tourism perspective.

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

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.

Concerned to think intentionally about liturgy in Baptist life and thought, this book aims to address the practices of Christian worship in a theological light, examining how each brings individual Christian believers and communities of faith to a greater understanding and embodiment of the gospel.

By 2020, the global economy, led by the US - China duopoly, was experiencing the longest economic expansion on record.

Events Management provides an introductory overview of the fundamentals in managing events from conception to delivery, highlighting both the theoretical and operational aspects, to prepare students for a career in events management and hospitality.

This unique volume aims to promote new models of sustainable management in the field of contemporary mural art.

Heritage tourism is tied to myth making and stories; creative content that can be shared, stored, combined and manipulated, but that depends on a unique cultural or natural history.

Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world.

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 explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville's multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city's influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of the country-music fan.

Pilgrim and Preacher seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went into their creation.

Die Liturgiekonstitution des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils beschreibt den Sonntag mit ausdrucksstarken Worten: Ur-Feiertag und Fundament des ganzen liturgischen Jahres (SC 106).

Values-rich journeys can be described as pilgrimage, spiritual travel, personal heritage tourism, holistic tourism, and valuistic journeys.

Love at Its Best When Church Is a Mess is a collection of fifteen meditations, drawn from 1 Corinthians 13, perhaps the most well-known passage about love in Holy Scripture, and certainly one of the most beloved passages found anywhere in the English language.

Booming Mainland Chinese outbound travel is one of the most exciting phenomena in the world tourism industry's recent history.

First published in 1950, Jewish Religious Conflicts gives an account of the principal cleavages that have taken place within the Jewish people since the close of the Old Testament over questions of religious faith, doctrine and practice.

This book is an assemblage of diverse yet homogenous research papers that bring together the issues and challenges of cultural heritage conservation and tourism sustainability.

This book includes research papers submitted to and presented during the first international conference on Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) that was held in Thessaloniki, Greece in November of 2017.

Tourism, travel and leisure (TTL) are highly diverse and fragmented industries.

The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community.

This book provides a comprehensive collection of new insights into traditional paradigms, approaches, and methods, as well as more recent developments in issues related to family businesses in tourism and hospitality.

Der Stille wird in Gottesdiensten heute verstärkt Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt.

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world.

Since the dawn of time fire has been the source of awe, respect and reverence.

Mountains have long held an appeal for people around the world.

Tourism as an industry is constantly evolving.

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

Das Verständnis und die Praxis der Taufe werden zwischen Kirchen der täuferischen Tradition und jenen, die Kinder taufen, als kirchentrennend bewertet.

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

It's one thing to know the story of the Bible.

Humans are created as dreaming creatures and have been interested in the meaning of their dreams for thousands of years.

Horses are perhaps the most common non-human animal to feature in planned events, but although there is considerable research on equestrian sport, there is virtually none on equestrian events.

This book outlines the status quo of worldwide wildlife tourism and its impacts on planning, management, knowledge, awareness, behaviour and attitudes related to wildlife encounters.

Lesung gebraucht Sprache, indem sie geschriebene als klingende Sprache korrealisiert.

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This contributed volume offers a wealth of cases that explore the factors and conditions required for heritage tourism to be economically and socially beneficial to local communities without impairing the natural environment, cultural heritage preservation, or sustainability for future generations.

This book explores the latest developments in the field of smart tourism, focusing in particular on the important cultural and sustainability synergies that have emerged during the digital era.

This book is devoted to the analysis of the three main tasks of China's tourism development: Firstly, the theory of tourism development since the initiation of reform and opening-up.

Personen, Organisationen und Institutionen und deren funktionales Zusammenwirken spielen eine dezidierte Rolle im Aufbau von Resilienz, weshalb in der praktischen Implementierung dieses Ansatzes sowohl zentrale Koordination als auch partizipativ entwickelte und gestaltete Formate zum Tragen kommen.

A collection of fourteen highly influential articles by Michael H.

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

All roads lead to enlightenmentbut the choice of which to travel is yours.

Now thoroughly revised and updated, this encyclopedia documents the diversity of shrines, temples, holy places, and pilgrimage sites sacred to the world's major religious traditions, and illustrates their elemental place in human culture.

This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view.