Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industrie Books

The updated edition of the complete resource for a successful career in hotel and lodging management Hotel and Lodging Management, Second Edition prepares readers to succeed as managers in the hotel and lodging industry, while developing a solid...

Ecotourism, second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect contemporary developments in ecotourism. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the text discusses the significance of ecotourism in the domestic and international tourism sector...

The sixth edition of Professional Meeting Management is the newest edition of the longtime standard reference and textbook for the meetings industry and meetings education. This is the first student and meeting professionals textbook aligned with the new...

No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien's Middle Earth. How...

Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism.The first winter visitors to the...

Despite being viewed as a dangerous region to visit, leisure travel across the Middle East has thrived even in the post9/11 era. In Beaches, Ruins, Resorts, Waleed Hazbun investigates this overlooked industry to show how tourism is shaping the economic...

Why are the airlines always in a crisis?Everyone has a horror story about air travel - cancellations, delays, lost baggage, tiny seats, poor service. In this day and age, there is no reason that flying should be this bad. In Why Flying Is Miserable,...

Today, we are familiar with the large theme parks, which charge families hundreds of dollars a day to wait in line for moments of thrills on technologically amazing rides. Florida, however, has been drawing tourists for over a century with simpler...

Remember the Magic is the inspiring story of the birth of Horizon Air and how it became one of the top regional airlines in the United States under the leadership of Milt Kuolt, one of the great entrepreneurs of the twentieth century.