Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

This book delivers the present state-of-the-art of scientific characteristics of the unique Ciomadul volcano (Romania, East-Central Europe) from as many aspects as possible.

Access to large data sets has led to a paradigm shift in the tourism research landscape.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to travel marketing, tourism economics and the airline product.

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

This book offers an insight into the luxury yacht industry as a provider and facilitator of a luxury yacht experience.

This book addresses the various sustainability issues that the tourism industry has faced over time like the trend from over-tourism to under-tourism or from tourism in increasingly distant destinations to a new local tourism with new needs.

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 aims to identify the impact of tourism on social and economic development in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, and to predict the development of the tourism industry and identify any limiting factors for the development of the tourism industry in the Republic as a whole.

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

Tourism is one of the sectors that have undergone substantial change for several decades and in particular due to the restrictions and change in national and international policies since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book examines the dilemma of overdependence on tourism in Caribbean countries and territories, and the need for a resilient path to address the industry's vulnerability in the face of natural disasters.

This book argues that COVID-19 revives a much deeper climate of terror which was instilled by terrorism and the War on Terror originally declared by Bush's administration in 2001.

This book investigates the various ties between tourism development and sustainability, revealing forces of change and current trends in tourism management performance in countries of Central and Southeast Europe.

This book investigates the consequences of mountaineering (hiking, trekking, climbing) on the natural environment.

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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