Hospitality and service industries

Management of supply chains has been evolving rapidly over the last few years due to the inception of Industry 4.

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.

Sport, and in particular the sporting environment, has undergone significant changes in recent decades.

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 Palgrave Pivot presents tournament design mainly within the axioms of incentive compatibility and fairness.

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 handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most important and fundamental elements for the management of team sports organisations.

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.

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football.

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

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries.

This volume examines the economics of aquatic sports.

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

This textbook offers a fully integrated approach to the theory and practice of service management, exploring the operational dynamics, management issues and business models deployed by service firms.

This book outlines the effects that technology-induced change will have on sport within the next five to ten years, and provides food for thought concerning what lies further ahead.

Things will always go wrong in organisations.

This volume presents a portfolio of cases and applications on technology roadmapping (TRM) for products and services.

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.

This Palgrave Pivot re-examines salary formation in Major League Baseball in light of real option theory to clarify the connection between salary and marginal revenue product for professional baseball players.

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.

This book takes a closer look at the societal functions of sports clubs by using the broad range of empirical data of a comparative study.

This book explores total revenue management (TRM), an emerging concept in revenue management that incorporates existing principles and tools of revenue management across all profit streams.

The book provides a holistic and practical approach to lean management throughout the business value chain.

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.

The Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in the United States.

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.

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 book adopts a multidimensional approach to explain current practices and trends in facility management.