Zaid Alrawadieh - Böcker

This prescient book explores the potential of tourism and hospitality to address social challenges. Featuring theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions from leading scholars, it reveals how different stakeholders within the tourism and hospitality ecosystem can create value and benefit humanity in diverse ways.Confronting traditional views of tourism and hospitality as a purely commercial activity, the book shifts attention to its more positive social and environmental outcomes. Chapters examine the role of tourism and hospitality as a path for tackling global and societal issues, from climate change and the refugee crisis to loneliness and ageing populations. They draw on interdisciplinary perspectives across a range of sectors, critically analysing the opportunities and complexities of leveraging tourism and hospitality as a force for good for vulnerable groups including older people, refugees, hospital patients, children and marginalized groups who are suffering from poverty. Ultimately, this incisive book presents an innovative approach to the study and practice of tourism and hospitality, rethinking dominant paradigms and underscoring the transformative power of the industry.Students and academics in tourism and hospitality will benefit from the cutting-edge insights in this book. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers, educators, and practitioners interested in using tourism and hospitality as a driver of wellbeing and welfare in society.

•Discusses the social and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship; •Includes case studies from a wide range of Hospitality and Tourism sectors; •Industry perspectives and examples included to contextualise the theory.Entrepreneurship in Hospitality and Tourism: a global perspective second edition provides a new and definitive overview of the vital role and effective practice of entrepreneurship in one of the most dynamic industry sectors in the world. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures a global perspective. The editors clearly outline the key theoretical perspectives and go on to cover the various types of entrepreneurship. Fully informed by the latest research, it incorporates: •different country contexts; •the social and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship; •case studies from a wide range of Hospitality and Tourism sectors; •Industry perspectives and examples included.