This book investigates and considers the urgent political, social, and economic challenges that confront society and tourism. It attempts to look at what is threatening society, and makes suggestions on what the impact will be and how tourism will be changed to integrate with the new...

section 1. Theoretical issues of hotel chains -- section 2. Expansion of hotel chains -- section 3. Strategic and operational management of hotel chains -- section 4. The individual hotel's perspective -- section 5. Contemporary and future issues in hotel chain management.

Globalisation is a political, economic, and social phenomenon and there are many who are in favor of it and many opposed to it. In this piece, the authors analyze the relationship between tourism and globalisation. The authors analyze 167 countries and territories for the years 2000-2010 to...

This report presents part of the results of the first global study on customers’ perceptions on robots in travel, tourism, and hospitality implemented by the authors in 2018-2019. Specifically, the report presents the methodology of the research and elaborates on the key results regarding the...

The authors explore the likely trajectories of the tourism industry in the next 20-50 years. To do so, the authors explore the general economic, social, and political conditions the global population will face. Many of the important questions of the future of tourism deals with the issue of...