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The travel and tourism industry is massive. People love traveling
for entertainment, relaxation, business and many other reasons
in-between. Some travelers are looking for peace and quiet and some
are seeking their next adrenaline rush. Whatever the reason, the
demand for travel is there and tourism, hospitality and destination
companies have the entire world as a potential target market. The
travel and tourism industry is massive. International tourism
refers to tourism that crosses national borders. Globalization has
made tourism a popular global leisure activity. The Global Tourism
industry has experienced steady growth over the five years to 2016.
International tourist arrivals continue to grow, as global per
capita income increases and consumer sentiment improves. In the
coming years, the industry is expected to continue growing, as the
global economy continues to strengthen. Despite some distressed
areas due to conflicts or regional economic problems, several
factors, such as growing per capita disposable income and improving
consumer sentiment, point toward strong tourism growth. merging
economies now account for a much larger share of the tourism
industry, compared with a decade ago. Generally, two broad themes
underline this growing trend. First, per capita income is growing
rapidly in many developing economies, expanding consumers' choices
and spending power as to where to spend the holiday.
Tourism is one of the world's fastest growing industries and is a
major source of income for many countries. Being a people-oriented
industry, tourism also provides many jobs which have helped
revitalize local economies. However, like other forms of
development, tourism can also cause its share of problems, such as
social dislocation, loss of cultural heritage, economic dependence
and ecological degradation. Learning about the impacts of tourism
has led many people to seek more responsible holidays. These
include various forms of alternative or sustainable tourism such
as: `nature-based tourism', `ecotourism' and `cultural tourism'.
Sustainable tourism is becoming so popular that some say that what
we presently call `alternative' will be the `mainstream' in a
decade. All tourism activities of whatever motivation - holidays,
business travel, conferences, adventure travel and ecotourism -
need to be sustainable. Sustainable tourism is defined as "tourism
that respects both local people and the traveler, cultural heritage
and the environment". It seeks to provide people with an exciting
and educational holiday that is also of benefit to the people of
the host country. Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a
place as a tourist and trying to make only a positive impact on the
environment, society and economy. A key aspect is respect for the
people who call the location home, the culture and customs of the
area, and the socio-economic system. While sustainable tourism is
sometimes confused with ecotourism, ecotourism is actually only one
aspect of sustainable tourism. Sustainable tourism focuses on
respect for an area's cultures and customs. The concept is not to
hide your own culture, but to try to absorb and understand the
local way of life. The social aspect of sustainable tourism pays
special attention to human rights and increasing the opportunities
for all members of a society. While economic sustainability
promotes the idea that tourism profits be kept within the local
community, social sustainability deals with the distribution of
these profits. The emphasis is on preventing the exploitation of
one group of a society for the financial gain of another. While the
majority of sustainable tourism's aspects are focused on local
sustainability, they should not overshadow the concept of tourist
satisfaction. Many locations rely heavily on the tourism industry,
so providing tourists with a rewarding experience is essential to
economic success.
Hospitality industry has grown leaps and bounds in the last few
years. The hospitality industry is made up of thousands of exciting
organizations including hotels, restaurants, food service
management, fast food, coffee shops and pubs, bars and nightclubs.
It involves an array of job roles from waitressing to event
coordination, and management positions too. It's an industry that
offers a unique working environment, and as it is public facing it
offers a sociable and dynamic working life. The transition from
providing a mere hotel stay to providing a seamless experience with
top most quality is obvious in the hotel sector. New trends keep on
emerging as hotels try to enhance experience of their customers. In
markets where year on year growth is expected to be exponential,
tapping on these hot new trends will be the key to maximum
revenues. Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host,
or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this
includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or
strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions,
special events, and other services for travellers and tourists. The
accommodation department focuses on buying and selling
accommodation which is the facilitation of all aspects of
reservation enquiries in a commercial hospitality environment,
including rate information, room types, facilities, location,
payment methods, and customer services. The front office of an
accommodation establishment is seen as the hub of the hotel. This
is often where a customer makes their first contact with the
establishment. Think of the different ways this may happen. There
are four different stages to the guest cycle: pre-arrival, arrival,
occupancy and departure. The front office team are part of each of
the four stages. This text will discuss what happens at each stage
and the importance of each stage from both the guest's perspective
and the perspective of the host accommodation.
The book The Possibilities of Vegetarian Hospitality: How to
Develop the Niche throws light on the various ways in which the
hospitality sector can promote vegetarianism and base itself upon
the concept. It helps the readers find ways in which they can kick
off their hospitality ideas with vegetarianism as well. The book
cites various examples to show that veganism is on a rise and that
many parts of the hospitality sector are embracing the idea and
building their business models on the basis of it. It also informs
the people about the way in which they can sell the idea of
vegetarianism to boost their hospitality business.
The growth of tourism sector is not unnoticed. It is very evidently
visible. However, to maintain the growth and to even better the
prospects of tourism in the future, it is important that the
personnel working in the industry is thoroughly trained and
educated about the various aspects of hospitality. Professional
training can help better the skills of the employees in the tourism
sector and can definitely result in better services and hence,
better revenues. The book Education and Training in Tourism and
Hospitality emphasizes on the need of the hospitality personnel
getting proper education and training, so that the tourism sector
becomes a sustainable one.
SMEs are visible in all sectors, including the tourism and
hospitality sector. Small and medium-sized tourism enterprises
provide an array of products and services, including accommodation,
transportation, catering (foods and beverages), attraction sites,
and activities. This book explores what an SME is and how they
operate in tourism and hospitality industry. It pays attention to
the tourism and hospitality industry. The scope of tourism and
hospitality is wide and includes a variety of activities. In that
regard, this book pays attention to tourism and hospitality
activities that fall under the small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMTEs). Readers will gain an understanding of the challenges faced
by tourism and hospitality SMEs, the opportunities, policies,
regulations, and future projections as well.
Tourism Informatics discusses about tourism definition, different
types of tourism, the importance of tourism in economies of
developing countries. It also includes the concept of evolution of
e-tourism, new business opportunities created by e-tourism
industry. The advantages and disadvantages of e-tourism and the
future of e-tourism have also been discussed. The readers are
informed about the impact of technology in travel industry, the
significance of technology in travel industry, different
technological trends arising in the travel industry and other
related aspects. The role of social media in tourism, its
importance and how social media helps in tourism marketing have
also been discussed. This book also discusses about how technology
is a boon in hotel and accommodation industry, importance of
technology in the hotel and accommodation industry, improving guest
experience through technology.
Culinary Tourism discusses the basic concept of tourism together
with the concept of culinary tourism. It includes significant
trends in the field of culinary tourism and the market offering for
culinary tourism. This book also discusses about the role of food
and media in culinary tourism, culinary tourism as a cultural
experience and presence of culinary tourism in private as well as
domestic fields. It provides the reader with the basic insights of
the tourism sector specifically culinary tourism, so as to better
understand the development of food networks and its key role in the
development of tourism sector.
Travel, Tourism and Hospitality: Global Dynamics is a book which
would help in answering the question that how these three sectors
have managed to offer the world's third largest economic activities
in direct earnings. The book highlights the history of travel and
tourism along with the evolution of hotels and motels industry.
Provides reader with an in-depth understanding about the travel
agencies and tour operations from where they get their vacation
tickets booked and arranged. The book would also take its reader to
tour on various types of food service facilities and lodgings.
This book is aimed to trace the history of design science in
tourism development. The purpose of this book is to illustrate
clearly how important technology has been to the tourism industry.
The book aims at pointing out the relevant stages of technological
leaps in the tourism technology and also to take a closer look at
the current state of the information technology that is prevalent
within the society.
Conservation Tourism examines various aspects of tourism including
an extensive historical overview of conservation tourism and
related issues. It includes planning conservation tourism, visitor
impacts and management on conservation tourism, role of governments
and international agencies in conservation tourism, economies of
conservation tourism. Provides the reader with insights into the
development of its history, so as to understand the policy
development and implications for conservation tourism.
Management of tourism destination is a multi-faceted pursuit. It
together comprises the contemporary critical issues in tourism, its
persistent challenges which are based upon the several experiences
collected from different destination of tourism along with vibrant
cultural and economic environment. In managing the destinations of
tourism, the most important contribution is made by the employees
that add the competitive edge in the organizations of tourism. The
management required for the development of destination based
tourism industry demands high quality of human resources. This book
develops a framework to explore the links between destination based
tourism and human resource management. This book covers the central
theme of managing the tourism destination, the characteristics of
traveler's choice, destination management and destination planning,
management of heritage sites and developing of destination products
along with the information management. The first introductory
chapter of this book discuss about the literature of tourism and
facts related to the various tourist destinations. The second
chapter of this book gives a glimpse regarding the planning and
organizing of a trip to the final destination as it has become
easier now to visit any part of the world through the development
of tourism industry on a large scale. Thus, it has been seen that
the governments of the renowned tourist destinations have started
to develop various types of tourist facilities. The third chapter
of this book tells about the various strategies behind the
selection of appropriate customers and clients. This chapter
discusses about how the tourism industry should know and understand
more about their visitors so as to attract them. Going ahead the
role of destination management in organizations have been discussed
in chapter four which has gained lot of importance over the years.
It also gives the detailed description about the Destination
Management Organizations. Chapter five of this book gives a drive
through the management of human resource and required skill in
managing destination tourism which requires high quality personnel.
Chapter six of this book tells about the destination marketing
which is most successful and advanced tool implemented in the
tourism industry. This chapter explains the role of Distance
Management Organizationsin destination marketing, its planning and
the research methodology. Chapter 7 is related to the management of
heritage sites which represents the symbolic tourism destinations
and attractions for the tourists and the challenges faced due to
the ever-increasing tourism that are also related to developmental
issues of tourism. Chapter 8 relates to the branding of destination
where it deals with the concepts of different forms of brands for
the enrichment of tourism. The concluding chapters 9 and 10 of this
book discuss the development of destination products and
destination E-business and information management respectively. The
former describes the strategies related to the advancement and
expansion of new attractions, experiences, facilities and amenities
provided by the public and private sector, and later, describes the
role of business in tourism and destination based marketing where
it has been shown how to utilize the e-commerce business. This book
covers the complete analysis of market trends and how they respond
to changing value chains of the market. It also touches how
destination tourism helps in promoting and encouraging private
sector investment along with the improvement of small, medium and
micro undertakings in tourism.
Tourism is one of the fast growing industries in the world. The
book presents trends and practical ideas in the area of hospitality
and tourism, with an integrated approach to understanding the
subject of how culinary systems may be made more sustainable and
will be valuable reading to all those interested in sustainable
food and food tourism. Students, professors and researchers of
innovation, entrepreneurship, and tourism studies will find this
book an invaluable resource.
This book explains the various concepts related to hospitality and
tourism management. It provides a comprehensive picture of the
industry and a way to manage it. The book starts with an
introduction to the field of hospitality and tourism management.
Its various dimensions are discussed subsequently. Key events that
have made a significant impact on the industry are also discussed.
The rapid of growth of this industry has created various lucrative
profiles for future students and the chapter discusses several
important roles that can be taken the students.
Environmental management and sustainability have been recent
important issues in the hospitality industry. This comprehensive
book emphasizes regulatory issues, which relate to the management
of hospitality procedures in ways which are penetrating to the
impact on the environment whereas not threatening their own
financial viability. This is essential reading for students,
researchers and academics of hospitality as well as those of
tourism, marketing, business and events management.
Strategic Management for Hospitality & Tourism Sector discusses
the basic concept of strategic management for the sector of
hospitality and sector. It includes the idea of competitiveness in
the hospitality industry. This book also discusses the medical
tourism and wellness strategy along with the notion of corporate
travel management. It provides the reader with insights of
implementing different strategies in the field of hospitality and
tourism so as to understand the challenges, current trends and
future aspects of hospitality and tourism industry.
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