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Book SynopsisTourism Dynamics: New perspectives and changing directions provides theoretical and practical insights with a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach to the study of tourism and emerging topics that will change the future of the industry, either positively or negatively. It offers a platform for critical discussion and examines emergent controversies within the tourism industry including the growth of alternative business models (e.g. sharing economy business models), travel in light of climate change and human resource ethics given the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), data and algorithms. With contributions from an international body of academic experts, each chapter highlights and critiques emerging insights and is underpinned with a thorough theoretical and practical knowledge. Issues discussed include risk management awareness; well-being in tourism; the online purchasing process; volunteer tourism; destination resilience and competitiveness and much more. Tourism Dynamics: New perspectives and changing directions is a must have volume for all tourism and hospitality students and educators, enabling students to enhance their critical thinking skills and educators to reflect on the influences of new directions on the industry.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Complexity in the Tourism & Hospitality Online Purchasing Process (Nikolaos Pappas & Andreas Papatheodorou); Volunteering whilst Backpacking (Elena Gelaca, Iride Azara & Eleni Michopoulou); Creating a better future for the hospitality & tourism education (Christina K. Dimitriou); Risk Management awareness: The operation of the Greek hotel industry under the risk assessment in tourism sector (Maria Zoi Spanaki); Transforming Tourism Governance: A Focus on Destination Community Well-Being (Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo); Well-being experiences in nature. An emerging tourist form (Marta Gemma, Nel-lo Andreu & Alba Font Barnet); The journey to & from overtourism – perspective of inhabitants of cities & resorts (Michał Żemła, Adam Szromek, Sylwia Orzeł & Jakub Para); New clues to tourism planning & management from consumer neuroscience (Carla Fraga & Airton Rodrigues); Shedding Light Upon the Shadows: Exploring the link between country destination image & dark tourism (Stella Kladou, Maria Psimouli & Nilgün Handan Eskitark); Air Connectivity for leisure tourism; the way forward (Pavlos Arvanitis); Destination resilience & competitiveness: understanding the linkages between government initiatives, resilience & competitiveness (Erisher Woyo); Tacit Hierarchising within Online Communities of Hillwalkers (David M Brown & Sharon Wilson); Extended Reality Technologies as a tool for managing crises & shaping tourism safety perceptions (Christina Karadimitriou & Eleni Michopoulou); Index
