After the era of apartheid, festivals, conferences and events such as the hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2010TM provide exciting opportunities to market South Africa as preferred tourist destination. The exposure to international media and their audiences will have significant impact on the...

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) markets itself to international visitors as a paradise. But just whose paradise is it? Take Me to My Paradise looks at the many players in the BVI tourism culture, including immigrants working in a tourism economy, nationalists struggling to maintain some...

Using the example of China's Wutai Shan-recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park-Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chinese applications of western notions of heritage management within a non-western framework. What does the concept of world heritage mean for a site...

Cultural tourism is nowadays considered the fastest growing market in tourism. The research was obtained to gain further insight about cultural tourists. The study explored cultural tourists in Portugal through investigating the profile, motivation and level of interest of cultural tourists, in...

Intro -- Capitalist Globalisation, Corporated Tourism and their Alternatives -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Globalisation -- The Evolution to Globalisation -- Perspectives on Globalisation -- Three Arenas of Globalisation -- It Is Capitalist Globalisation that Matters -- Sklair's...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Case Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Service quality in tourism and hospitality -- 2 Tourism and hospitality service quality research -- 3 Analysing service experiences in tourism and hospitality -- 4 Tourism and hospitality service...

This study examines the intersection of entrepreneurialism and the tourism industry in modern-day Vietnam and uses case studies from private tourism operators in Ho Chi Minh City to analyze the effects of development policies and market reforms.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 1: The Restaurant: An Eminently Urban Subject -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. The Geographical Origin of the Restaurant: The Urban Environment -- 1.1. From bouillons… -- 1.2. … to the...

Tourism in the Mediterranean Sea: An Italian Perspective is the product of a collaborative group of experts in the field of tourism. Academics, whose research focuses on regional tourism system governance, alongside several experts from the tourism sector, contributed to the volume with distinct...

Cover -- Guest editorial -- Tourism demand nowcasting using a LASSO-MIDAS model -- Forecasting daily attraction demand using big data from search engines and social media -- High-frequency forecasting from mobile devices' bigdata: an application to tourism destinations' crowdedness -- A...