Synopsis 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 of menu planning and property design/development. The bo0ok 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, strategies 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.