Travel Industry Monitor
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 254
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Handbook of Hospitality Operations and IT
Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-10
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1136399895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbook of Hospitality Operations and IT provides an authoritative resource for critical reviews of research into both operations and IT management. Internationally renowned scholars provide in-depth essays and explanations of case studies, to illustrate how practices and concepts can be applied to the hospitality industry. The depth and coverage of each topic is unprecedented. A must-read for hospitality researchers and educators, students and industry practitioners.
Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality & Events
Author: Simon Hudson
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 2023-12-04
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1529672953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cutting-edge and engaging student textbook, now in a second edition, provides essential coverage of marketing principles for Tourism, Hospitality and Events, with a strong focus on the increasing global and digital aspects of these industries. The text has been updated to include all the latest industry developments, practice and research, including the lasting impacts of Covid-19 on consumer behaviour and, in turn, the tourism, hospitality and events industries, as well as the accelerated role of digitalization and use of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and the metaverse, both of which are changing how people conceive of travel and experiences whilst blurring the boundaries between what is real and virtual. Popular chapter features such as Lessons from a Marketing Guru, featuring personal insights from real world practitioners, and Digital Spotlights, which highlight the ways in which technology has transformed tourism, hospitality and events, and Marketing in Action case studies continue to help bring the text to life through fun and relevant examples from a wide variety of organizations and regions across the globe. This textbook is essential reading for any university or college course looking at marketing in relation to tourism, hospitality and events. Simon Hudson is a tourism and hospitality professor at the University of South Carolina. Louise Hudson is a freelance travel journalist writing for a host of newspaper travel sections, online tourism sites, and her own blog.
Overbooked
Author: Elizabeth Becker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1439161003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, Elizabeth Becker traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month--then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Becker's sharp depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways"--
International Business and Tourism
Author: Tim Coles
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-02-13
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1134096577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTourism is changing. This innovative textbook examines a key international service industry in the context of globalization processes, the state, and increased individual mobility, using case studies to illustrate wider themes and key issues.
Tourism in Africa
Author: Iain Christie
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2014-06-19
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1464801975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents how tourism initiates economic development and how constraints to the growth of tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa can be addressed. With 24 case studies that illustrate tourism development, it reveals that despite destination challenges, the basic elements needed to initialize or intensify success are applicable across the region.
Social Media in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
Author: Professor Evangelos Christou
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1409485145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information about tourism suppliers and tourism destinations. Presenting cutting-edge theory, research and case studies investigating Web 2.0 applications and tools that transform the role and behaviour of the new generation of travellers, this book also examines the ways in which tourism organisations reengineer and implement their business models and operations, such as new service development, marketing, networking and knowledge management. Written by an international group of researchers widely known for their expertise in the field of the Internet and tourism, chapters include applications and case studies in various travel, tourism and leisure sectors.
Africa
Author: World Tourism Organization
Publisher: WTO
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9789284407958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs part of a series of annual reports which analyse trends in international tourism, this volume focuses on regional and subregional tourism flows and earnings in 2003 in Africa as a whole, and by individual country. It looks at arrivals, tourism accommodation, outbound tourism, receipts and expenditure for international tourism.
Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality
Author: Erdogan Koc
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1000172066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality is the first textbook to offer students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on service providers as well as on customers, affecting both the supply and the demand sides of the industry – organisational behaviour, and human resource management, and marketing and consumer behaviour. Given the need for delivering superior customer value, understanding different cultures from both demand and supply sides of tourism and hospitality and the impact of culture on these international industries is an essential part of all students’ and practitioners’ learning and development. This book takes a research-based approach critically reviewing seminal cultural theories and evaluating how these influence employee and customer behaviour in service encounters, marketing, and management processes and activities. Individual chapters cover a diverse range of cultural aspects including intercultural competence and intercultural sensitivity, uncertainty and risk avoidance, context in communication, power distance, indulgence and restraint, time orientation, gender, assertiveness, individualism and collectivism, performance orientation, and humane orientation. This book integrates international case studies throughout to show the application of theory, includes self-test questions, activities, further reading, and a set of PowerPoint slides to accompany each chapter. This will be essential reading for all students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners and future managers in the fields of Tourism and Hospitality.
The Report: Colombia 2014
Author: Oxford Business Group
Publisher: Oxford Business Group
Published: 2013-08-25
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1910068098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndeed, the sound performance of the construction sector, strong investment in public works, restored consumer confidence and a recovery in the hydrocarbons industry enabled Colombia’s economy to regain dynamism and end 2013 with growth of 4.7%. Attracting a record $16.36bn in foreign direct investment in 2013, an 8.2% rise on the previous year, the Andean economy assured its spot among the region’s top investment targets. As in previous years, hydrocarbons attracted the lion’s share of FDI to the country, accounting for 81.6% of the total. While GDP grew by just 2.9% in the first quarter of 2014, the central bank forecasts growth of 4.3% for the year. With the possibility of a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the next few years could see economic performance enhanced by improved agricultural and energy outputs, as well as increased FDI inflows.
