Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

This book examines and addresses the particular character of urban tourism occurring in the global South.

This book provides a management perspective on the full historical, contemporary, and geographic landscape of hospitality and tourism (H&T) in Africa.

Generation Z (Gen Z) is the demographic cohort also known as Post-Millennials, the iGeneration or the Homeland Generation.

This book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, from global and specific approaches, combining different views, perceptions and senses.

This book comprises studies that reflect on various influences of excessive tourism development in protected areas, and solutions designed and initiated to mitigate such challenges.

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

This book tackles the question of how tourism development and suitable policies can be used to promote sustainable development in Low-Density Territories (LDTs).

This Brief discusses impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Portuguese tourism sector.

This textbook explores the fundamental principles of marketing applied to tourism and hospitality businesses, placing special emphasis on SMEs in the international tourism industry.

This book outlines the impacts of small scale sport tourism events on local sustainable development in different countries.

This book approaches the tourism and hospitality industry from a regional science perspective.

Over the past two decades, through unprecedented levels of prosperity and changing values, luxury tourism has transformed into a new consumption pattern.

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of and discussion about the relationship between green tourism, economic growth and globalization.

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

Service operations management in the tourism and hospitality industry requires a high level of coordination, communication and facilitation to satisfy visitors.

This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher education.

This book describes famous geosites and historical localities in national parks and conservation areas from North America, East Africa, and Europe.

This book interrogates the impact of tourism on local lives and environments along the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.

What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas?

This book provides an overview of the recent progress in Francophone tourism geography.

Despite the ever-increasing interest in eye tracking, there is still no comprehensive work on the potential and applications of table-mounted and mobile head-mounted eye tracking solutions in travel and tourism.

The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems.

This book identifies and describes five megatrends  that will define the landscape of the Travel,  Tourism & Hospitality industry, with a particular focus on the European context.

Viewed through a politico-economic lens, Nordic countries share what is often referred to as the 'Nordic model', characterised by a comprehensive welfare state; higher spending on childcare; more equitable income distribution; and lifelong-learning policies.

This book studies the Chinese "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; (BRI), also called "e;New Silk Road"e;, and focuses on its regional and local effects.

Urban regeneration is often regarded as the process of renewal or redevelopment of spaces and places.

This book addresses the application of sustainable HRM principles within tourism in the specific context of Africa, a neglected area of study.

The term 'overtourism' has come into prominence since 2017 and refers to the fact that, due to various factors such as more sophisticated marketing strategies, a large number of tourists visit the same place at the same time.

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

What impact did walking tours and scenic films have on leisure activities?

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

This book features the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the 5th International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference, held in Munich, Germany in 2019.

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.

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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 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 focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space.

Former communist countries face unique issues in developing and marketing tourism businesses, communities, and attractions because of centralized polices that discouraged international influences.

This book provides an extensive, up-to-date overview of the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to develop tourism and hospitality.

The book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), with the theme "e;Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences,"e; which was held from August 29 to 31, 2023, in Crete, Greece.

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 provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of tourist destination management and presents important recent research in the field.

This book offers essential insights into how the world's second largest industry, tourism, is responding to challenges involved in expanding the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept to corporate sustainability and responsibility, referred to as CSR 2.

In How to Make Things Happen, we learnt that knowledge is the fundamental driver of service efficiency.

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

This book covers a very broad range of topics in marketing, communication, and tourism, focusing especially on new perspectives and technologies that promise to influence the future direction of marketing research and practice in a digital and innovational era.

This book examines rural tourism across three different contexts, acknowledging the complexity of rural places.

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.