Tourism Travel category: 1805 books

Events are increasingly used instrumentally to achieve goals of society such as cultural development, destination branding or economic development. Event impacts are, however, routinely measured from a purely economic perspective. Event Impact fills an important niche and a void in the literature...

How much money is your business wasting? How good is the service you deliver? This pioneering book will familiarize you with benchmarking techniques that can be used to gauge and improve the performance of hospitality and tourism businesses anywhere! With compelling case studies drawn from hotel management, environmental systems, and desti

"Takes readers systematically through the entire research process from the formulation of the aim to the presentation of the dissertation... a key subject-specific resource in our fields." ***- Dr Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University  ***  "Currently the leading book of...

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. The specific field considered in this book is also placed against the backdrop...

In 1987, the Santiago de Compostela Declaration laid the foundations for the first Council of Europe Cultural Route, highlighting the importance of our rich, colourful and diverse European identities. Today, the Council of Europe Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes oversees 29 routes...

Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies. They can directly and indirectly contribute a significant number of domestic and international visitors to destinations and may be part of longer-term retirement, lifestyle and amenity migration that...

This book on events-related research marks a watershed in the development of a "Nordic School" of festival and event research. Each of the chapters presents a new and interesting approach to the study of events, in terms of methods, perspectives or content. It is mostly rooted in management...

This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of non-academic research impact in relation to a marginal field of study, namely tourism studies. Informed by interviews with key informants, ethnographic reflections on the author’s extensive work with trade and professional associations, and...

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. Local development...

Kelly Monaghan, the creator of HomeTravelAgency.com and "The Home-Based Travel Agent Success Course," has been covering what he likes to call the “Home-Based Travel Revolution” for 20 years, writing numerous articles, blog posts, and course updates. That's a lot of articles and a lot...

The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand destinations,...

Since opening on February 1, 1927, with just 12 guest rooms, Furnace Creek Resort has achieved preeminence among US National Park lodges and hotels. Conceived by the Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1926, the inn was the answer to the declining mining industry, which had left the Death Valley Railroad...

This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Do You Think You're Fit For A Job In Hospitality And Tourism? Chapter 2: Professional Hospitality Resources For Quick Job Hunting Results Chapter 3: Best Sources For Hospitality Job Listings Chapter 4: Essentials For Starting A Hospitality Career...

Gastronomy is the art and science of good eating and drinking: a concept that extends outwards to embrace wider notions of tradition, culture, society and civilisation. This book provides a rigorous, well researched and much needed treatment of the subject, systematically outlining: * the development...