Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

Tourism to and within India has undergone some important changes in recent years seen by the rising numbers of international tourists and increase in domestic tourism.

The growing complexity and importance of sports and event marketing has pushed scholars and practitioners to apply sophisticated marketing thinking and applications to these topics.

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 long-awaited companion volume to Howard E.

The events surrounding the holidays molded the foundation of the Jews as a nation and are related to their continuity and survival as Jews throughout history.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Travelers are buzzing about apitourism--or "e;bee tourism"e;--as an opportunity to get close to bees and learn about the ecology and industry they support.

Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality offers a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on customers as well as service providers, affecting both the demand and the supply sides of the industry - services marketing and consumer behaviour, management, organisational behaviour, and human resource management.

Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life -- and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody.

In St.

Our days are filled with a variety of known and lurking fears.

This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present.

Little kids want to know who Santa is so this book will serve as an excellent introduction.

This book provides a quick but in-depth discussion of the beginnings of Easter.

Christmas is more than just gift-giving.

Tourism Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region offers a comprehensive exploration of the diverse world of tourism within one of the most dynamic regions on the globe.

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.

Perfect Read for October-Pro-Life Awareness Month-and November-National Adoption Month!

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.