Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

This book contains the best papers on tourism sustainability, economics and management presented at the 10th Tourism Outlook Conference, held in Sri Lanka from 19 to 21 October 2017 and the 11th Tourism Outlook Conference held in Eskisehir, Turkey from 3-5 October 2018.

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

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

The book contains 12 contributions that explain the current state of China's cruise industry and future development.

This book reviews employment and leisure trends in Japan from the post-war era to the present.

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

This book provides the latest research in the application of innovative technology to the tourism industry in Bangladesh, covering the perspectives, theories, issues, complexities, as well as opportunities and the challenges present.

This book deploys the concept of 'audiovisual tourism promotion' to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials.

This book explores the geographical, geomorphological, ecological, touristic and socioeconomic aspects of natural heritage, argues for the dynamic conservation of that heritage and explains its key characteristics, promotion, conservation and management to achieve sustainable development goals.

The tourism and hospitality industry of Bangladesh as a South Asian country has potential.

This book explores the implications of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive digital enterprises and their practices for different functional domains and in different counties during COVID-19.

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

This book meticulously focuses on seeing technological solutions of overtourism on decimated destinations from a comprehensive viewpoint.

This book brings together multi-disciplinary research and practical evidence about the role and exploitation of big data in driving and supporting innovation in tourism.

It is an unconditional reality that the tourism industry in Asia is becoming exposed to innovative technologies more than ever before.

This book provides new roads, perspectives, and a synthesis for tourism and regional science research.

This book explores contemporary tourism and coastal developments in Hyogo, Japan-the nation's only non-peninsular prefecture bordering two oceans.

This book explores the relationship between tourism/tourists and expressions of contemporary Asian art (for example, artists, objects, intangible artistic productions, digital manifestations, etc) in Asian and non-Asian tourist spaces/experiences.

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 focuses more on the study of cruise economy industry chain based on the previous editions and the latest trend of China's cruise economy.

This book elaborates upon, critiques and discusses 21st-century approaches to scholarship and research in the food, tourism, hospitality, and events trades and applied professions, using case examples of innovative practice.

This book offers a meticulous overview of the future of tourism in Asian countries.

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.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

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.

Georgia's territory represents a real "e;natural geological laboratory,"e; exposing magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, ranging from the Neoproterozoic to the Quaternary.

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.

This book explores island resilience and how island communities come together to achieve wellbeing, have agency over their future and resist ongoing neo-colonialism during disruptive events such as COVID-19 and the increasing threats of climate change.

Tourism offers countless global locations, providing a multitude of sensory experiences.

This book explores the relationship between technology and social transformation in tourism, hospitality and gastronomy.

This book explores the relationship between technology and social transformation in tourism, hospitality and gastronomy.

This book is about exercise - what it is, how it affects the individual, how it is measured and most of all what benefits it brings.

This book is about exercise - what it is, how it affects the individual, how it is measured and most of all what benefits it brings.

This timely and innovative book is a theoretically underpinned yet accessible introduction to entrepreneurship in tourism.

Despite the fact that the African tourism industry is prone to disturbances such as diseases, extreme weather events, civil unrest, wars, and other shocks, nothing could have prepared this destination for the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

This book discusses current trends, challenges, and opportunities in the fields of business, hospitality, and tourism, particularly in Eastern Europe.

This book discusses how pleasure, as an emotional motivation, can play a leading role in improving the learning of new cognitive skills and abilities.

This textbook provides a comprehensive learning resource material for tourism transportation.

This book aims to curate a collection of articles to showcase the latest work and biggest trends shaping the global tourism industry in the past two decades - new technology and the Chinese tourists.

This book aims to curate a collection of articles to showcase the latest work and biggest trends shaping the global tourism industry in the past two decades - new technology and the Chinese tourists.

The links between high profile sports events and tourism are increasingly apparent, yet comparatively little attention has been paid to lower profile sports-related travel.

The hotel industry has gone through important transformations, not only in terms of management and operation but also in terms of interaction with consumers.

The hotel industry has gone through important transformations, not only in terms of management and operation but also in terms of interaction with consumers.

This book combines research on technology-driven and social-driven innovation in tourism destinations and the multifaceted concept of sustainability, providing an integrative understanding of the nexus between smartness and sustainability within destinations.