Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

With the emphasis on small enterprises, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of what is happening across Europe in terms of sustainable development objectives and sustainability in the context of tourism supply.

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!

Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture.

Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture.

The rapid global growth of the sport industry has prompted the need for a more commercial approach to the management of sport clubs.

The rapid global growth of the sport industry has prompted the need for a more commercial approach to the management of sport clubs.

Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role.

Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role.

Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel.

Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel.

In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex social and environmental systems.

In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex social and environmental systems.

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks.

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks.

Wild animals form an integral component of the human leisure experience.

Wild animals form an integral component of the human leisure experience.

This handbook analyzes the main issues in the field of hospitality marketing by focusing on past, present and future challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective.

This handbook analyzes the main issues in the field of hospitality marketing by focusing on past, present and future challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective.

This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years.

This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years.

Innovative tourism industry leader Rosemary Rice McCormick guides the reader through the basics of marketing and tourism know-how for museum store managers and other museum and heritage marketing professionals.

Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess of one billion per annum.

Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess of one billion per annum.

This book features international authors discussing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the sports context.

This book features international authors discussing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the sports context.

Visitors to Thailand's urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products.

Visitors to Thailand's urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products.

This timely, expert-led book brings together the latest academic and practitioner insights on AI technology within the hospitality and tourism industries.

Now in its 5th edition, Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism has become the ultimate reference text for both students enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and practising managers.

For courses in meeting, event, and convention planning.

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids.

This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives.

This book proposes measures to promote regional industrial development in East Asia from the perspective of three industries: agriculture, food, and tourism.

Critical Event Studies is a growing field, not just within event management and event studies, but across the traditional and digital social sciences.

This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic use of mega-events in its modern development.

This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die.

This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville's multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city's influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of the country-music fan.

Exploring the ambiguous relationship between fandom and consumer culture, this book provides a critical overview of fans, fan cultures and fan experiences in relation to the broader experience and transformation economy.

This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes.

This book explains the emerging trends and developments of Chinese outbound travel, alongside the motivations, desires and expectations of Chinese travelers themselves.

Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants and Central American partners.

Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation.

Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development revolves around the implementation of ICT applications in the tourism sector: technology is engendering a major shift both in the performance of individuals and companies involved in the tourism sector and having an impact on the way individuals consume services and enjoy experiences in space and time.

Tourism Marketing for Developing Countries examines media strategies used by destinations in Asia, the Middle East and Africa to battle stereotypes, negative images and crises in order to attract tourists .

This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging.

This third annual volume of the International Place Branding Yearbook looks at the case for applying brand and marketing strategies to the economic, social, political and cultural development of cities, towns and regions around the world to help them compete in the global, national and local markets.

Clients are consistently demanding lower prices at the time of each purchase and companies can only react by reducing costs.

Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts.