Planning and Development of Tourism and Hospitality

Contents: Preface. 1. Tourism planning process. 2. Collaborative and adaptive approaches to tourism planning. 3. Cooperative tourism planning. 4. Principles of sustainable tourism development. 5. Sustainable tourism framework. 6. Tourism development decision making. 7. Management of environmental performance in hospitality sector. 8. Wireless services for hospitality industry. 9. Development of international tourism. 10. Development of hospitality industry in India. 11. Net-based tourism services. 12. E-business applications in tourism and hospitality industry. 13. Tourism and pro-poor growth. Bibliography. Index.

"Hospitality and tourism is a vastly important and fast-growing industry. Planning and development issues of tourism and hospitality extend from the macro to the micro level, from global concerns to those associated with the individual organisations and companies, from multivariate forecasting to the more creative endeavours of menu planning and property design/development.

The book is designed to provide students, researchers, practitioners, individuals and organisations, a broad overview of planning and development issues in hospitality and tourism industry. Topics such as sustainability, cooperative planning, strategic infrastructure planning and forecasting, structural activity re-alignments, implications of advances in information technology and development of tourism and hospitality enterprises, etc., are described in detail. The book is deliberately international in its outlook with global examples and illustrations of tourism and hospitality." (jacket)