Hospitality category: 1805 books

Zoos are important and popular tourist attractions. Spread around the world, they are typically located in major cities, with visitation levels comparable to other major attractions. Nature-based attractions constructed in artificial settings, they face the challenge of trying to balance potentially...

Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That is why, as Secretary-General of the World Tourism...

Ethnodevelopment is a well-established concept in the field of development studies. Despite its relevance to tourism initiatives and processes in the Global South, it continues to be an underutilised concept in the field. This book bridges this gap, presenting an original conceptual framework...

Cities are staging more events than ever. Within this macro-trend, there is another less acknowledged trend: more events are being staged in public spaces. Some events have always been staged in parks, streets and squares, but in recent years events have been taken out of traditional venues and staged...

The tourism industry is arguably one of the most important sources of income and foreign exchange, and is growing rapidly. However, national and international crises have huge negative economic consequences. Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry aims to illustrate the theories and actions...

This book is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the broader resilience literature. The volume takes a multi-scaled approach to examine resilience at the individual, organisation and destination levels, and with respect to the wider tourism system. It covers...

Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response. The result is the concept of ‘travel...

She wants to share her faith in God by transmitting an oral history, which is the way of her ancient world. Angelique’s first language is Cree, a rarity in the latter day generations of First Nations in Canada. Up until the age of 9 she spoke Cree almost exclusively, and until she was age 15 Angie...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,4, University of Plymouth, course: Cruise Operations and Passenger Services, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When analyzing the cruise industry, one fact is important: a cruise vessel itself is worthless,...

Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different kinds of events or in different settings. This timely volume fills this gap by...

Guide to Front Office Operation is a primer on the lodging and hotel business. The manual gives the user an overview of the front office or reception in a lodging operation with a look into the world of hotels. It explains the guest cycle and how it affects the hotel operation at every stage of the...

This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy, and to better understand how the collective social memory and...

Formula 1 is once again widening it’s spectrum of influence –we are in for a treat to see the new race in Baku next year, andGermany is back on the map. This issue of Paddock magazineseems to be quite geographical in a sense that our writers takeon various challenges in very different locations.A...

This book examines the sports industry as a broad business and economic sector with an enormous influence on regional economic development. Covering topics such as sports economics, financing sports organizations, sustainability management in sports, sports tourism and doping among athletes, this...