This series provides a forum for cutting edge insights into the latest developments in tourism research. It offers high quality monographs and edited collections that develop tourism analysis at both theoretical and empirical levels.
Edited
By Marco Valeri, Ahmad Albattat
September 02, 2024
This innovative and timely book presents an in-depth analysis of how the metaverse revolutionizes tourism management, transforms consumer behaviour and motivates tourists to visit destinations. Adorned with illustrative tables, figures and diagrams throughout, the volume is data-led and explores ...
By Kathleen Smithers
August 16, 2024
This book explores the phenomena of school tours and tourism. It explores tensions of authenticity and artificiality in the school site being both a place of community learning and a spectacle for tourism consumption. Through the example of a school in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, the book ...
Edited
By Anukrati Sharma, Miha Lesjak, Dušan Borovcanin
August 05, 2024
Discover the transformative potential of sport tourism and events in achieving Sustainable Development Goals with "Sport Tourism, Events and SDGs: An Emerging Foundation." This groundbreaking collection explores the profound impact of these sectors in shaping a more sustainable future. Readers of ...
Edited
By Eva Maria Jernsand, Maria Persson, Erik Lundberg
May 27, 2024
This book contributes to the understanding of how tourism can be designed to provide conditions for learning. This involves learning for tourists, the tourist industry, public authorities and local communities. We explore how tourism, knowledge and learning can be used as means towards sustainable ...
By Nguyen Van Hoang
May 08, 2024
This timely book delves into the intricate relationship between tourism and poverty with a specific focus on nature conservation areas, using case studies of island economies in a developed country, Japan, and a developing one, Vietnam. The volume asserts that although the concept of pro-poor...
Edited
By Marco Valeri
February 06, 2024
This book analyzes the importance of innovation as the key driver of sustained success in the tourism industry and the knowledge sharing process. It explores its impact on innovation capability and innovation performance of organizations. With 12 chapters written by 22 contributors, the book offers...
By Taşkın Deniz Yıldız
December 20, 2023
Developing Industrial and Mining Heritage Sites offers a multifaceted examination of the challenges and opportunities in the development of industrial & mining heritage. It does so through the case study of Lavrion, Turkey, by examining the historical process of this former mining site which ...
By Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, Andy Lihua Chen
August 31, 2023
This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China. Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of ...
By Manuela Gutberlet
July 31, 2023
Cruise tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors worldwide. This book is the first of its kind to provide in-depth insights into the emergence of mega-cruise tourism in destinations on the Arabian Peninsula and its impacts on local communities, their spaces, cultures, identities and tourist ...
By Mohammed Jemal Ahmed, Atilla Akbaba
February 23, 2023
This book explores the potential of halal tourism development and its implementation in Ethiopia. The insights presented assist key stakeholders to make informed decisions concerning commercial strategy, profitability and feasibility of halal tourism from the secular perspective. This innovative ...
Edited
By Vanessaa G. B. Gowreesunkar, Shem Wambugu Maingi, Felix Lamech Mogambi Ming'ate
September 30, 2022
Tourism and ecosystems services are interdependant and face unique challenges. This book explores the challenges faced by destinations regarding the management and restoration of their ecosystem services. Responding to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book offers unique management ...