Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

This new volume, which complements the editors' earlier volume Medical Travel Brand Management: Success Strategies for Hospitality Bridging Healthcare (H2H), explores the multitude of medical travel services and discusses the integration of traveling medical guests with destination providers, hospitality/healthcare professionals, and travel service providers.

This book discusses opportunities, costs, and governance issues within the wildlife tourism space in Southern Africa.

Bryan Spinks is one of the world's leading scholars in the field of liturgy and to have a comprehensive work by him on the Eucharist is a major catch for SCM.

With its archaeological sites, colonial architecture, pristine beaches, and alluring cities, Mexico has long been an attractive destination for travelers.

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

Enrich Your Passover Seder with Renewed Meaning and Significance Whether you are planning to participate in, contribute to, or lead a Passover Seder, Leading the Passover Journey will help you relive the Jewish People's legacy of survival, hope, and redemption, and reconnect with the rich heritage celebrated in this special event.

Emotional intelligence is the capability to recognize, use and manage one's own emotions and those of others.

Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism.

The book is a kaleidoscope of the rourism issues of the New Millennium.

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 new book, Restaurant Financial Management: A Practical Approach, provides valuable guidance on how to apply the concepts of accounting and finance to real-life restaurant business activities.

Der stationäre Reisevertrieb sieht sich durch die gesteigerte Nutzung von Online-Kanälen zur Suche und Buchung von Reisen einem erhöhten Wettbewerb in der Tourismusbranche ausgesetzt.

Praying in the Spirit of Christ offers contemporary readers a compelling and holistic vision of what life in Christ can mean for them.

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Osterpredigt der Gegenwart als zentralem homiletischen Thema und zeigt daran exemplarisch die Relevanz der Hermeneutik für die Homiletik.

This new volume, which complements the editors' earlier volume Medical Travel Brand Management: Success Strategies for Hospitality Bridging Healthcare (H2H), explores the multitude of medical travel services and discusses the integration of traveling medical guests with destination providers, hospitality/healthcare professionals, and travel service providers.

Rapid growth in the tourism and hospitality industry highlights the importance of applied and pure research to address the theoretical and practical problems and gaps facing the industry daily, from a multitude of perspectives - the economic, social, cultural, environmental, political, and technological.

"e;Dayspring, my dictionary tells me, is an archaic word meaning 'dawn.

This book is intended as a devotional guide for the Advent season.

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.

Women and Pilgrimage presents scholarly essays that address the lacunae in the literature on this topic.

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 deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector.

This book explores the social and cultural constructions and debates of what are dogs and what is leisure.

World-renowned Jesus scholar Marcus J.

Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs.

This book explores the paradox of the hospitality industry: customers demand not only personal and innovative tourism products and services, but also cost-effective ones.

Find out how the ways we live and work are changing the ways in which we play!

The fitness sector is a growing economy where suppliers, managers and consumers are in continuously evolving relationships, and in which technology plays a key role in optimization.

This new edition of The Economics of Tourism reflects the tremendous changes that have occurred in the tourism sector in the last twelve years.

Luxury is an ever-evolving concept with various interpretations in the domain of hospitality and tourism.

Air Transport and Tourism: Interrelationship, Operations and Strategies is a comprehensive textbook covering all major aspects of air transport from operational and managerial perspectives, as well as exploring the intricate relationship that exists between the air transport and tourism industries.

A powerful collection of writings about Rosh Hashanah that will add depth and holiness to your experience of the spiritual New Year.

Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the holiest cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).

This book explores a wide range of emerging cultural, heritage, and other tourism issues that will shape the future of hospitality and tourism research and practice in the digital and innovation era.

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

A new history of Islamic practice told through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games.

Trusted Bible teacher and New York Times bestselling author Dr.

This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"e;ritual"e; and "e;moral"e;-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament.

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

The tourism industry is made up of a wide cluster of sectors having specific requirements related to planning for and recovery from tourism destination disasters.

Wine tourism has become increasingly popular and important in recent years, with a vast scientific research highlighting the expansion of the industry and the various benefits associated with it.

This is a guide for spiritual mountain climbers.

The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology brings together a set of original and authoritative accounts of all the major areas of current research in Christian systematic theology, offering a thorough survey of the state of the discipline and of its prospects for those undertaking research and teaching in the field.

Tourism promoters strive to brand their destinations in anticipation of what they think travellers hope to experience.

Each generation asks in its own way, "e;What does it mean to be human?