Given the importance of planning and development issues in the tourism and hospitality industry such as sustainability, capacity planning, strategic infrastructure planning and forecasting, structural activity re-alignments, the implications of advances in information technology and the globalisation of tourism and hospitality enterprises, this journal focuses on bringing together researchers and practitioners, individuals and organisations interested in both the theoretical and the practical aspects of planning and development. Tourism and Hospitality: Planning & Development aims to provide a forum for the publication and dissemination of new and original theoretical and applied research on tourism, hospitality, planning and development issues, through fully refereed research papers and to encourage international dialogue through viewpoint articles, short pieces designed to stimulate ideas, discussion and/or present work in progress that has not been developed to a stage suitable for publication as a fully refereed paper.

The contextual scope for Tourism and Hospitality: Planning & Development is considerable; planning and development issues extend from the macro to the micro level, from global concerns to those associated with the individual organisations and companies, while the conceptual scope encompasses issues and techniques from multivariate forecasting to the more creative endeavours of menu planning and property design/development. The unifying element of these two arenas is planning and development.