Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries

This proceedings book explores future prospects of cultural, heritage, and religious tourism and how it can impact the socioeconomic complexity of a community and future developments.

This book reviews all aspects of the phenomenon of mass tourism.

The Tourist Experience is complex, intrinsically personal, and highly emotional.

Literary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and stories.

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

The Emerald Handbook of ICT in Tourism and Hospitality examines the immense, widespread and ongoing changes that digital technologies are having on the tourism and hospitality industries globally.

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

 This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of 'dark tourism', the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Sixty years after its birth, contemporary tourism is at crossroads.

Enrich your wedding with your own creative use of Jewish ritual and tradition.

Are you ready to go on the most thrilling adventure of your life?

El libro muestra cómo, en su rol de historia oral, esta categoría de música-danza ritualizada es una parte de un esquema integral de «textos orales» que también incluyen: decenas de narrativas épicas, con cientos de capítulos y personajes con nombres específicos y rango ancestral; y una memoria colectiva extraordinaria de miles de elementos geográficos, todos vinculados íntimamente con las canciones y narrativas épicas sagradas, además de ubicados de manera dispersa a través de un enorme paisaje natural y cultural que forma un corredor transandino.

This is the first book to provide coverage on the best practice of sustainable tourism in island destinations, focussing on the unique perspective of exploring the interplays of seasonality, competitiveness, and quality of life of islands as destinations.

Many cities focused on tourist development and city marketing to keep their economies afloat during the financial crisis of 2008-2013, but the subsequent economic recovery saw a combination of growing visitor numbers, changing behavior patterns and price hikes, especially in real estate, that created the conditions for a 'perfect storm'.

The Special Times of the Jewish Year Can Be a Framework for Your Life as a Couple "e;Through the holiday cycle we have seen that life is a complex weave of light and darkness, bitter and sweet, striving and surrendering.

Health and Wellness Tourism takes an innovative look at this rapidly growing sector of today's thriving tourism industry.

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a peer-reviewed research journal, has been published annually since 2004.

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.

This vital resource explores the essential considerations of pastoral work with those with intellectual disabilities.

Tourism Destination Quality: Attributes and Dimensions presents new research on tourism destination quality.

There is an unbridged gap between human aspirations to travel into space and the barriers to realizing such dreams.

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

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

The measurement of tourism, for example analysing competitiveness and evaluating tourism projects, is not an easy task.

The ubiquity of digital platforms in everyday life has considerable ramifications for contemporary leisure travel.

According to the latest official figures, the popularity of Baptism is on the rise.

Dare to Take Ownership of the Wildness and Wonder of Your Truest Self "e;Nature is there for you, waiting to reflect your deepest self back to you and to teach you the Creator's wisdom.

From sustainable event planning to the influence of VR, AI, and mobile applications on tourist behaviour, this book explores the dynamic landscape where innovation meets tradition.

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "e;Christianization"e;.

This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance.

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Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved.

This seminal work by one of the world's most distinguished liturgical scholars fills an important gap in the history of the Church of Scotland and of Scottish worship.

Sustainable Hospitality Management: Designing Meaningful Encounters with Talent and Technology will generate international debate in the research and practice of hospitality management.

This text introduces tourism students to concepts drawn from critical theory, cultural studies and the social sciences.

Luxury is an ever-evolving concept with various interpretations in the domain of hospitality and tourism.

Experts in Greek language, literature and material culture re-examine the role of animal sacrifice in Greek life across the Mediterranean.

No one knows more about starting and running a bed and breakfast business than successful cook, author and hotel owner Amy Willcock.

From one of the most creative liturgists of today, here are new liturgical texts to refresh the celebration of Holy Communion.

"e;I found this text to be exactly what we were looking for to give our students a good understanding of the contemporary issues that affect the Events industry.

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism.

Follow the spiritual wisdom of one of the twentieth century's great theologians, Romano Guardini, as you prepare your mind, body, and heart for Mass.

This book suggests sustainable economy from the viewpoint of tourism fostering low carbon footprint.

The Caribbean economy remains a region with many paradoxes.

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years.

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three crucial areas of tourism - impacts, planning and management.

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives.

What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism?

Marketing Places and Spaces' covers a broad range of issues that hospitality and tourism executives will benefit from addressing, but frequently forget to do so.