Purpose: The purpose of this study adopts a news media narrative approach to Yield insights on aspects of the COVID-19 impact. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts a news media narrative approach as this method can yield insights on aspects of the COVID-19 impact. Findings: In the...

For many years, the capacity of technologies to automate jobs was more visible in industrial settings. However, the latest advances have generated systems (through self-service technologies, online and mobile applications, and robots) that are capable of replacing human tasks in service...

Volatile methylsiloxanes (VMSs) are massively produced chemicals that comprise a wide range of industrial and household applications. The presence of cyclic and linear VMSs in several environmental matrices and ecosystems indicates persistence associated with a potential of (bio)accumulation and...

This collection of 11 papers (in addition to an introduction, a conclusion and a reflection paper) focuses on tourism trends and challenges that are emerging in the French and Italian Alps and their implications for sustainability. The papers deal with governance, climate change, sustainable...

The first decade of the present century has been characterized by several economic shocks such as the 2008 financial crisis. In this data article we present the annual percentage growth rates of the main tourism indicators in the world's top tourist destinations: the United States, China, France,...

Over the past few years, the landscape of top-class gastronomy has empirically changed: some celebrity chefs are returning their hard-won awards to instead provide low-cost food while others work tirelessly to gain access to the inner circle of international top-class restaurants. Things are...

Based on evidence from nine countries (UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ireland), this special issue analyses the fabrics of farm tourism in Europe. It identifies two main development trends: on one hand, a small scale and dispersed activities, at the other hand a ...

This paper addresses the future of French mountain resorts. They face two major trends: on the one hand, changes in tourist habits with much shorter stays, a greater availability of leisure time and, generally speaking, shifts in customer expectations; and, on the other, changes in housing and...

This book explores the linkages between migration and tourism as an important baseline study in the investigation of opportunities indicated by the relationship between these two global phenomena. The book consists of three major parts. The first part presents the conceptual framework allowing...