Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Hospitality a Systematic Approach written by Nilüfer Vatansever Toylan and published by Livre de Lyon. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Hospitality a Systematic Approach
Download or read book Contemporary Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism written by Fevzi Okumus and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism delivers a comprehensive collection of chapters including new insights for traditional paradigms, approaches, and methods, as well as more recent developments in research methodology in the context of tourism and hospitality.
Download or read book Current Issues in Hospitality and Tourism written by A. Zainal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally the hospitality and tourism industry is evolving and undergoing radical changes. The past practices are now advancing through the rapid development of knowledge and skills acquired to adapt and create innovations in various ways. Hence, it is imperative that we have an understanding of the present issues so that we are able to remedy probl
Download or read book Contemporary Tourism written by Chris Cooper and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, this text presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism. This new edition now includes: coverage of researching social media; crowd-sourced strategies; the millennial tourist generation and green growth and sustainable tourism.
Download or read book Tourism Development written by Richard W. Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the theory and practice of contemporary tourism development, offering alternative approaches to theory and policy issues and extending research into newly emerging tourist destinations.
Download or read book Gender Equality and Tourism written by Stroma Cole and published by CABI. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does tourism empower women working in and producing tourism? How are women using the transformations tourism brings to their advantage? How do women, despite prejudice and stereotypes, break free, resist and renegotiate gender norms at the personal and societal levels? When does tourism increase women's autonomy, agency and authority? The first of its kind this book delivers: A critical approach to gender and tourism development from different stakeholder perspectives, from INGOs, national governments, and managers as well as workers in a variety of fields producing tourism. Stories of individual women working across the world in many aspects of tourism. A foreword by Margaret Bryne Swain and contributions from academics and practitions from across the globe. A lively and accessible style of writing that links academic debates with lived realities while offering hope and practical suggestions for improving gender equality in tourism. Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment, a critical gendered analysis that questions the extent to which tourism brings women empowerment, is an engaging and thought-provoking read for students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of tourism, gender studies, development and anthropology.
Download or read book The Mindful Tourist written by Uglješa Stankov and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mindful Tourist: The Power of Presence in Tourism is an innovative new study based on the detailed exploration of mindful consumer behaviour, drawing on insights from new cases of mindful tourism experiences and examining the potential for broader uptake across the industry.
Download or read book Contemporary Management Approaches to the Global Hospitality and Tourism Industry written by Pius, Abraham and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hospitality, travel, and tourism industries play a major role in citizen wellbeing, socio-cultural integration, and the economic advancement of a nation. The industries are increasingly complex in operation, demanding excellence across a far-reaching and diverse set of capabilities and changes in management practices across the board. With growing expectations for a better service quality from the users and endless calls for value-added service, managers are under constant pressure to improve their services across all aspects while growing customer numbers to meet various stakeholder expectations. Contemporary Management Approaches to the Global Hospitality and Tourism Industry is a key reference source that provides crucial knowledge on the application of new management practices and trends in the tourism industry. While highlighting topics such as service quality, culture sensitivity, and brand marketing, this publication explores the influence of globalization and the methods of sustainable business practices. This book is ideally designed for managers, hotel directors, restaurateurs, researchers, industry professionals, professors, and students seeking cutting-edge hospitality and tourism management strategies.
Download or read book Global Trends Practices and Challenges in Contemporary Tourism and Hospitality Management written by Batabyal, Debasish and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the largest service industries serving millions of international and domestic individuals yearly, it is important to understand the current trends, practices, and challenges surrounding tourism. Emphasized by the effects on people, management processes, and technological advancements, this economic and socio-cultural phenomenon’s importance is increasing worldwide. Global Trends, Practices, and Challenges in Contemporary Tourism and Hospitality Management discusses and analyzes the impacts of new trends in the tourism industry, including sub-sectors of tourism, and revisits existing trends, identifies new types and forms of tourism, and discusses the influence and use of technology. Featuring research on topics such as guest retention, predictive analysis, and ecotourism practices, the material collected is ideally designed for managers, travel agents, industry professionals, practitioners, consultants, and researchers.
Download or read book Hospitality and Travel Marketing written by Alastair M. Morrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated for its fifth edition, Hospitality and Travel Marketing provides students with an international and systematic approach to hospitality and travel marketing structured around planning, research, implementation, control, and evaluation. Written in a user-friendly style and structured in a logical and organized manner to aid learning, students benefit from the ease of communication, practical nature, and excellent use of relevant and up-to-date cases. The author's global experience in the industry is emphasized through content on hospitality and travel marketing and other parts of tourism, along with a plethora of timely and relevant ‘real-life’ case examples from around the world. This new fifth edition is positioned as a post-COVID-19 text, reflecting the new realities of marketing after the pandemic, and has been updated to reflect these current trends in the field, including e-marketing, mobile marketing, societal marketing, and destination branding. It specifically has been updated by: • Including three new technology chapters on e-marketing, marketing on social media platforms, electronic customer relationship management (eCRM), and customer co-creation in marketing • A new chapter on social responsibility, societal and social marketing • New content on the new realities of the post-COVID era and the increasing competitiveness in hospitality and travel, greater emphasis on branding, disruptive technologies, consumer control, marketing and generations, uses of user-generated content, and globalization • New global case studies throughout with reflective questions to use in class or for self-study • New marketing and e-marketing mini cases throughout the book • New and updated additional resources to aid understanding and teaching, including PowerPoint slides This international, accessible, and comprehensive whole-industry textbook, written by a world-renowned author and industry expert, is an invaluable study companion for students of hospitality and travel marketing.
Download or read book World Tourism Cities written by Alastair M. Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Tourism Cities: A Systematic Approach to Urban Tourism is a unique and contemporary textbook that addresses the particular situation of urban tourism destinations in the 2020s by reviewing key issues, trends, challenges and future opportunities for urban tourism destinations worldwide, as well as city destination management. The book is divided into four parts, with Part I providing background chapters on world tourism cities. It begins by clearly defining world tourism cities and explaining the impacts of globalisation and urbanisation on these cities. The subsequent chapter explains the urban tourism phenomenon and trace its growth. Part II presents city destination management, planning and development, and the marketing and branding of cities, offering practical solutions and approaches. Part III discusses major issues and trends in world tourism cities including resident well-being and quality of life, sustainability, smart tourism, crises, and the rise of tourism in Asian cities, and the final part identifies the future opportunities for city tourism. Written in a student friendly tone, the book is richly illustrated and contains several engaging features including Sweet Tweets (snippets of information on cities) and Short Breaks (detailed case studies on cities). This will be essential reading for all Tourism students.
Download or read book Contemporary Tourism written by Chris Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of tourism and indeed the tourism industry is changing constantly. Now in its fourth edition, Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, considering issues such as overtourism, advances in AI and its impacts, waste management and environmental crisis, the sharing economy and Airbnb, the tourist experience and product development. In particular, it highlights the ongoing threats and opportunities faced by the tourism industry today, and discusses the related management strategies, illustrating the potential implications for the patterns and flow of tourism in the future. Divided into five sections, each chapter has a thorough learning structure including chapter objectives, examples, discussion points, self-review questions, checklists and case studies. URL links in the form of QR codes are heavily present throughout the text so that users of both hard and electronic formats can have direct links to up to date, authoritative and annotated sources of information. Cases are both thematic and destination-based and always international. They are used to emphasise the relationship between general principles and the practice of tourism looking at areas such as business and special interest tourism and the role of technology. The five sections cover: Contemporary Tourism Systems; The Contemporary Tourist; The Contemporary Tourist Destination; The Contemporary Tourism Industry; and Tourism Futures. New to this edition:* New material on latest issues such as the international response to overtourism; waste management and environmental change; and the impact of AI/robotics on tourism human resources; * Brand new and updated case studies and readings throughout;* Substantial support for both students and teachers, both within the text itself and via web-based student and instructor resources.ABOUT THE AUTHORS Chris Cooper is Professor in the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Professor C Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand; Docent, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
Download or read book Contemporary Tourism written by Chris Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of tourism and indeed the tourism industry is changing constantly. Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, considering issues such as the changing world order, destination marketing, tourism ethics and pro-poor tourism. In particular, it highlights the ongoing threats from terrorism and health scares faced by the tourism industry today, and discusses the related security and risk management strategies, illustrating the potential implications for the patterns and flow of tourism in the future. Divided into five sections, each chapter has a thorough learning structure including chapter objectives, examples, discussion points, self review questions, checklists and case studies. Cases will be both thematic and destination-based and always international. They will be used to emphasise the relationship between general principles and the practice of tourism looking at areas such as business and special interest tourism and the role of technology.The five sections will cover: Contemporary Tourism Systems; The Contemporary Tourist; The Contemporary Tourist Destination; Tourism Futures; Teaching and Studying Contemporary Tourism. The text will also provide an annotated, authoritative and thorough set of resources to guide the reader through the topic area including online resource sites for both students and lecturers.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Hospitality Education written by Dianne Dredge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is much more than an economic sector, it is also a social, cultural, political, and environmental force that drives societal change. Understanding, responding to, and managing this change will inevitably require knowledge workers who are able to address a range of problems associated with tourism, travel, hospitality, and the increasingly complex operating environment within which they exist. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an insightful and authoritative account of the various issues that are shaping the higher educational world of tourism, hospitality and events education and to highlight the creative, inventive and innovative ways that educators are responding to these issues. It takes as its central focus a dynamic curriculum space shaped by internal and external factors from global to local scales, a variety of values and perspectives contributed by a range of stakeholders, and shifting philosophies about education policy, pedagogy and teaching practice. A benchmark for future curriculum design and development, it critically reviews the development of conceptual and theoretical approaches to tourism and hospitality education. The Handbook is composed of contributions from specialists in the field, is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content. Providing a systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and hospitality education and its future direction this is essential reading for students, researchers and academics in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, Recreation and Leisure Studies.
Download or read book World Tourism Cities written by Alastair M. Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Tourism Cities: A Systematic Approach to Urban Tourism is a unique and contemporary textbook that addresses the particular situation of urban tourism destinations in the 2020s by reviewing key issues, trends, challenges and future opportunities for urban tourism destinations worldwide, as well as city destination management. The book is divided into four parts, with Part I providing background chapters on world tourism cities. It begins by clearly defining world tourism cities and explaining the impacts of globalisation and urbanisation on these cities. The subsequent chapter explains the urban tourism phenomenon and traces its growth. Part II presents city destination management, planning and development and the marketing and branding of cities, offering practical solutions and approaches. Part III discusses major issues and trends in world tourism cities including resident well-being and quality of life, sustainability, smart tourism, crises and the rise of tourism in Asian cities, and the final part identifies the future opportunities for city tourism. Written in a student-friendly tone, the book is richly illustrated and contains several engaging features, including Sweet tweets (snippets of information on cities) and Short breaks (detailed case studies on cities). This will be essential reading for all tourism students.
Download or read book Contemporary Tourism Reviews Volume 1 written by Chris Cooper and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * State of the art reviews of sub fields of tourism - must-have information by experts in their field; * Every review is a multi-dimensional ’one-stop shop’ of information, equipping the reader with all they need to learn about each topic, saving valuable research time;
Download or read book Strategic Tools and Methods for Promoting Hospitality and Tourism Services written by Nedelea, Alexandru-Mircea and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism marketing is a vital tool in promoting the overall health of the global economy by not only bringing necessary revenue to a particular region, but also providing an opportunity for tourists to explore another culture, building tolerance and overall exposure to different ways of life. Strategic Tools and Methods for Promoting Hospitality and Tourism Services provides interdisciplinary perspectives in the areas of global tourism and hospitality. Highlighting cultural boundaries of strategic knowledge management through the use of case studies and theoretical research, as well as the opportunities and challenges of tourism marketing, this publication is an essential reference source for academicians, research scholars, marketing professionals, graduate-level students, and industry professionals interested in international travel and the vacation industry.
