Hospitality and service industries

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.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2020), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 29th to 31st October 2020.

Natural landscapes are intricately tied to human health and well-being.

Three decades ago, the hypermobility of tourists from the days before the global pandemic was truly unthinkable in Eastern Europe.

Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports federations and governments in the development of effective elite sport systems, particularly focused on achieving success in the summer and winter Olympic Games.

Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into 'the commercial age'.

In today's increasingly service-oriented global economy, the activities and transactions within and between supply chain members in the service sector have experienced substantial growth.

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

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This book contains an Open Access chapter.

This book celebrates and builds on Alan Clarke (1956-2021) and Allan Jepson's 2015 book Exploring Community Festivals and Events.

This new volume takes an in-depth look at the post-COVID tourism and hospitality scenario and how the industry has adapted to the new normal.

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.

Employee theft amounts to roughly $36.

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An essential resource for those wishing to understand the driving factors behind the operation of an adventure tourism company, this textbook offers guidance on how to deliver a profitable and sustainable product.

Addressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism.

Research Methods for Sports Studies is a comprehensive, engaging and practical textbook that provides a grounding in qualitative and quantitative research for students studying programmes related to sport and physical activity.

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.

This encyclopaedia is one of its kinds in terms of coverage, scope, elaboration, usefulness and futuristic perspective.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhether youre purchasing groceries with your Safeway club card or casting a vote on American Idol, that data is being collected.

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.

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Cross-cultural management is an important facet of the globalized sport industry.

The papers presented in this volume advance thestate-of-the-art research on digital marketing and social media, mobile computingand responsive web design, semantic technologies and recommender systems,augmented and virtual reality, electronic distribution and online travelreviews, MOOC and eLearning, eGovernment and sharing economy.

This book investigates the innovative trajectories of sports companies in different cultural and geographical contexts and analyzes how they manage the knowledge obtained from collaboration with end users, suppliers, and their own experiences.

Managing Sustainable Tourism tackles the tough issues within the tourism industry, such as impacts on the natural and built environment and concerns for the history, heritage, and culture of local communities to provide answers that produce positive and quality economic growth for the tourism industry.

Sponsorship of sports, arts or events can be a powerful form of marketing communication for businesses and organizations.

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.

Tourism products and services have been made available through intermediaries, although tourism providers (hotels, airlines, etc.

Schlafer looks at the preacher's task at the "e;high times"e; of the church and the secular year, those occasions on which expectations run high and emotions can be intense.

Critically analyses states'' obligations to control PMSCs in armed conflict and assesses how PMSC misconduct may lead to state responsibility.

Modern systems are an intertwined mesh of human process, physical security, and technology.

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 investigates small town tourism development in South Africa taking into account the most common strategies: branding, promotion, festivals and theming.

Nowadays, the latest technologies can be found not only in healthcare and space application but also in hybrid supercars.

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To make the service integration a success story despite the many challenges, L J Oberle argues that management understanding is necessary to address the key success factors in the individual strategic approaches.

The gay tourism industrya progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?

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

Security systems have become an integral part of the building and large complex setups, and intervention of the computational intelligence (CI) paradigm plays an important role in security system architecture.

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure - from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable boundaries.

From developed to developing nations, the utilization of tourism as a development strategy has been a prevalent practice at both national and local levels.