Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality presents small books on big topics and how they intersect with the world of tourism and hospitality research. The idea is to fill the gap between journal article and book. This new short form series offers both established and early-career academics the flexibility to publish cutting-edge commentary on key areas of tourism and hospitality, topical issues, policy-focused research, analytical or theoretical innovations, a summary of the key players or short topics for specialized audiences in a succinct way.
Animal Entanglements in Tourism and Leisure: Questions of Power, Relationality and Obligations
1st Edition
By Paul Tully, Neil Carr
April 21, 2026
This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to post-humanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relations with nonhuman animals and our obligations to ...
The Future of Blockchain in Tourism and Hospitality: Global Insights
1st Edition
By Fatima Zahra Fakir, Erdem Baydeniz
January 30, 2026
This timely and innovative book presents a critical exploration of how blockchain technologies may be useful in enhancing the sustainability, viability, and social responsibility of the tourism and hospitality sectors. A key component of many contemporary financial structures and exchanges ...
The Management of Migrant Workers in the International Hospitality Industry: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
1st Edition
By Sumi Ingerson, Beni Halvorsen, John Hatzinikolakis, Brad Nikolic
December 23, 2025
This timely book presents a critical exploration of migrant workers in the hospitality industry, focusing on their experiences, challenges and contributions to the sector, as well as presenting recommendations to help shape future policies. Issues relating to migrant workers in this sector have ...
Mountain Tourism, Altitude and Host-Guest Relationships
1st Edition
By Michal Apollo
December 16, 2025
This insightful volume critically explores whether higher altitude of habitation affects host-guest exchanges in mountaineering tourism, in an effort to better understand and manage vulnerable destinations in a sustainable manner. The book is based on empirical research conducted in the Mount ...
Sustainable Tea Tourism: Principles and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Suranga Silva D.A.C., Gayathri Puwanendram, Baghya Erathna, Kulasekara K. M. B. S. Y., Krishantha Ganeshan
December 05, 2025
This timely and innovative book provides an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of sustainable tea tourism, presenting practical insights and global best practices to pave the way forward. The volume discusses current trends and patterns in relation to supply and demand, ecological balance ...
Yoga and Tourism
1st Edition
By Nazia Ali
November 18, 2025
This timely and innovative book is the first to provide an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of yoga and tourism. It considers a range of perspectives, places and possibilities for the planning, development and management of yoga tourism around the world. International in scope and appeal...
Solo Travel, Tourism and Loneliness: A Critical Sociology
1st Edition
By Hugues Séraphin, Maximiliano E. Korstanje
October 27, 2025
This timely and topical book presents a unique critical exploration of the sociology of single travel and theory of consumption in relation to loneliness and tourism. Logically structured and interdisciplinary in scope, this book introduces disrupting questions around the convergence of the ...
The Associational Tourism Economy: An Introduction to Collaboration - Clusters, Networks, Ecosystems
1st Edition
By Alexander Safonov
March 20, 2025
This timely and innovative book provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of the associational tourism economy, exploring the collaborative nature of tourism as an interconnected system, with a focus on tourism clusters, networks, and ecosystems. When tourists travel, they interact with ...
Managing People in Commercial Kitchens: A Contemporary Approach
1st Edition
By Charalampos Giousmpasoglou, Evangelia Marinakou, Anastasios Zopiatis, John Cooper
May 27, 2024
Managing People in Commercial Kitchens: A Contemporary Approach uses original research to argue that senior managers (head chefs) should differentiate their people management practices in kitchen brigades from those used in the hospitality industry more generally (induction, socialisation, and ...
Smart Tourism Destination Governance: Technology and Design-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Tomáš Gajdošík
May 27, 2024
Drawing upon empirical research and critical literature review, Smart Tourism Destination Governance: Technology and Design-Based Approach provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of smart tourism destination governance and its related challenges. Building on the author’s extensive research ...
Mountaineering Tourism: A Critical Perspective
1st Edition
By Michal Apollo, Yana Wengel
January 29, 2024
This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of mountaineering and its relation to the phenomenon of tourism, providing an overview of recent developments linked to the diversification, commodification and commercialisation of mountaineering activity. Mountaineering, broadly ...
Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Processes Compressed in Time and Space
1st Edition
By Alberto Amore
June 14, 2022
Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Processes Compressed in Time and Space presents the global phenomenon of tourism and urban regeneration through the contemporary frames of spatial planning theory, metagovernance, resilience and disaster capitalism. Drawing upon cases from several cities around the ...