Hospitality and service industries

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.

Barcelona 92: A Legacy Case Study examines the effects of the organisation of Barcelona's Olympic Games in 1992.

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.

This book is an annual research report prepared by the cruise industry experts and scholars at home and abroad invited by Shanghai International Cruise Business Institute based on the current development situations of the international cruise industry, is an important part of the "e;X Book Series"e; of the Social Science Academic Press (China).

This book draws together empirical research across a range of contemporary examples of food tourism phenomenon in Asia to provide a holistic picture of their role and influence.

This book is an exploration that shows us how sentiment and duty form the core of Japanese culture.

The proceedings volume focuses on halal management and science topics.

This book looks at various aspects of tourism education in Asian countries and the impacts of sustainable development in tourism education to the Asian student markets.

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

The purpose of this book is twofold.

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 presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design.

This book is devoted to the customization design of product/service system (PSS), making use of a systematic design process and a number of methods, especially Industrial Customer Activity Cycle Analysis, Service Quality Function Deployment, Service Function and Attribute Analysis, Modified Service Blueprint, Multi-Objective Optimization and Multi-Criteria Recommendation Method.

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.

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.

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends, opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers, and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to build upon.

This book focuses on the planning, marketing, and management of Asian tourism destinations, and evaluates current developments within Southeast-Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

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

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

This book explores the ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies, and methods that inform tourism qualitative research conducted either by Asian scholars or non-Asian scholars focusing on Asia.

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 explores the issue of poverty reduction within mainland Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the impact of the private sector and tourism.

This book focuses on film tourism: the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular film or TV series.

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

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

This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015.

This book focuses on the role of e-consumers and e-marketing in the era of new tourism.

Blockchain technology is considered a disruptive innovation that changes the ways companies and global processes operate.

Una mirada exhaustiva a los procesos de turistificación que se han desarrolladoen los últimos años, tanto en América Latina como en otros lugaresdel mundo convertidos en focos de atracción turística, nos lleva irremediablementea vincularlos al patrimonio cultural.

This book addresses the most important judicial aspects in relation to the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC), as well as the different categories of disputes, inter alia, the termination of player contracts, the amount of compensation, sporting sanctions, training compensation and the solidarity mechanism.

This book presents an overview of different institutional arrangements for tourism, biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa.

This is a complete, step by step, reader friendly introduction to leadership theories and their application in sport organizations.

Finding a cheap hotel is important to budget travellers, whether for an Hawaiian honeymoon, adventure travel in the mountains, or for business.

Within the last few years, the use of cruises as venues for business meetings has been growing, and the lines are designing ships to accommodate this new trend.

Customer Service Assistants are responsible for answering queries of customers via either email, phone, or face to face.

Tourism holds a place of prominence in economic development.

This International Encyclopaedia of Modem Hospitality and Tourism Management helps readers develop the wide-ranging knowledge and analytical skills they need to succeed in todays burgeoning and dynamic hotel industry.

This International Encyclopaedia of Modem Hospitality and Tourism Management helps readers develop the wide-ranging knowledge and analytical skills they need to succeed in todays burgeoning and dynamic hotel industry.

This International Encyclopaedia of Modem Hospitality and Tourism Management helps readers develop the wide-ranging knowledge and analytical skills they need to succeed in todays burgeoning and dynamic hotel industry.

Economic diversity and business development will be encouraged to facilitate small and medium enterprises, together with local economic strengths, support the growth of a variety of economic sectors, urban regeneration and growth, and to address rural isolation and rural diversification.

There is a chance that guest and host will not get along.

A restaurant business must meet the requirements set out by the state where it is located.

Human resources are a key element in ensuring the quality and content of tourism products.

The concept of medical tourism is not a new one.

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This book is the first Indian publication on these branches of agricultural/biological sciences.

Hospitality & Leisure and Aviation & Transportation sectors, today's consumers have higher service expectations than ever.

An effective emergency response and good family assistance will reduce the frustrations that many people experience when caught up in the aftermath of a major incident.