A Research Agenda for Tourism, Hospitality and the Metaverse

A Research Agenda for Tourism, Hospitality and the Metaverse
Author: Haywantee Ramkissoon
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2024-11-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1035328224

This innovative Research Agenda explores how the metaverse is reshaping the tourism and hospitality industry. Highlighting both the opportunities and challenges created, it outlines how tourism and hospitality professionals can integrate metaverse technologies into their operations and planning.

A Research Agenda for Tourism, Hospitality and the Metaverse

A Research Agenda for Tourism, Hospitality and the Metaverse
Author: Haywantee Ramkissoon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781035328215

This innovative Research Agenda explores how the metaverse is reshaping the tourism and hospitality industry. Highlighting both the opportunities and challenges created, it outlines how tourism and hospitality professionals can integrate metaverse technologies into their operations and planning.

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Tourism

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Tourism
Author: Stephen F. McCool
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 271
Release:
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1788117107

Exploring tourism in an increasingly valuable landscape, this forward-looking book examines the importance of the sustainability of global travel. Leading authors in the field outline the major trajectories for research helpful in developing a sustainable and environmentally-minded industry.

A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism

A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism
Author: Maria Gravari-Barbas
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789903521

This timely Research Agenda moves beyond classic approaches that consider the relationship between heritage and tourism either as problematic or as a factor for local development, and instead adopts an understanding of heritage and tourism as two reciprocally supported social phenomena that are co-produced.

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism
Author: Nancy Duxbury
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019
Genre: Creative ability
ISBN: 1788110722

Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts combine to give shape to the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and pragmatic issues.

Handbook on Tourism and Social Media

Handbook on Tourism and Social Media
Author: Gursoy, Dogan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800371411

This comprehensive Handbook offers an overview of current research on the use of social media within the tourism industry, investigating a range of social media practices and proposing strategies to address key challenges faced by tourist destinations and operators.

Technology and Luxury Hospitality

Technology and Luxury Hospitality
Author: Park Thaichon
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2024-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040049397

The integration of pioneering information and communication technologies has transformed the hospitality sector. This groundbreaking book delves into the transformative power of cutting-edge technologies in the world of high-end travel and accommodation. As the digital revolution continues to reshape our lives, this book offers an exclusive look at how the hospitality industry is adapting and evolving to cater to the sophisticated tastes of the modern, tech-savvy traveller. In this eye-opening exploration, readers will be taken on a journey through the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the metaverse as they intersect with the world of luxury hospitality. From AI-driven concierge services and smart hotel rooms that cater to guests' every whim to the democratization of luxury experiences through blockchain-based loyalty programmes and the rise of virtual reality travel, this book reveals the extraordinary possibilities that lie ahead for the discerning traveller. With insights from international experts, this edited collection provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of the current and future trends shaping the industry and will be valuable to scholars and postgraduate researchers across the hospitality sector, innovation, and luxury management.

Review of Technologies and Disruptive Business Strategies

Review of Technologies and Disruptive Business Strategies
Author: Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2024-10-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 183797456X

Disruptive Business Strategies (DBS) that have reshaped many industries. Uber's use of new technologies allowed it to create a new business model for urban transportation, while Airbnb used online technologies to create a new market for short-term rentals. Both new technologies and new business strategies are changing our world.

Marketing and Design in the Service Sector

Marketing and Design in the Service Sector
Author: Saloomeh Tabari
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2024-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1837972761

Providing a practical, evidence-based vision of how to enhance and enrich customer experience through tangibles, exterior and interior design and space within the service industry. In other words, looking through the space-scape and design-scape to improve service performance to better address customer needs and desires.