Time Shift, Leisure and Tourism

The new book edited by Klaus Weiermair, Harald Pechlaner and Thomas Bieger explains important current and future expected developments in leisure and tourism behaviour because of changes in time allocation. It shows for a deep understanding the main overall forces, which will have strong impacts on new time patterns. Well-known experts in the field of leisure and tourism will discuss all important influences and the outcomes in the areas of education and leisure time, working time and leisure, leisure time and recovery, wellness and entertainment, impacts on mobility and technology, e-tourism. With the various contributions readers will gain fundamental insights how changes in the allocation of time will remodel the leisure and tourism industry. They will learn how leisure and tourism markets will function in the future because of changing time patterns. Therefore this volume offers highly practical and also strategic results.