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Robot Sports
A technology-based field of sport and recreation in which robots or autonomous systems compete in physical games, races or performance tasks.
Adventure Racing
A competitive and recreational activity that combines multiple outdoor disciplines such as running, cycling, navigation and paddling within a single endurance event.
K-Shaped Restaurant Demand
A pattern of restaurant demand in which the spending behaviours of higher- and lower-income consumer groups diverge in different directions under prevailing economic conditions.
Energy-Infused Menu Beverage
A functional menu beverage produced by adding energy-enhancing ingredients to coffee, soda, refreshers or similar drinks.
Premium Refresher Beverage
A premium non-alcoholic refreshing beverage developed with fruit, tea, botanical flavours or energy-related ingredients as an alternative to conventional soft drinks.
Craft Soda
A carbonated beverage distinguished from conventional soft drinks by small-scale production, distinctive flavours, natural ingredients or specialized recipes.
Beverage Tasting Event
A restaurant, bar or gastronomy event organized to allow participants to compare and experience the sensory characteristics of different beverages.
Locally Sourced Beverage Program
A beverage management approach that systematically emphasizes drinks produced by local suppliers or made with regionally sourced ingredients.
Menu Simplification Strategy
A restaurant management approach that reduces menu size and complexity to improve operational efficiency, service speed and product quality.
Between-Meal Snacking
A food consumption behaviour involving the purchase of food or beverages during short and flexible eating occasions outside traditional main meals.
Beverage-Led QSR Strategy
A quick-service restaurant strategy in which specialty coffee, energy drinks, refreshers, sodas and similar beverages are positioned as primary drivers of customer visits.
High-Speed Rail Tourism
A form of tourism mobility shaped by the accessibility, reduced travel times and intercity connectivity provided by high-speed rail networks.
Experiential In-Flight Dining
An airline dining approach in which food and beverage service is designed as an experiential element through chef curation, pairing, presentation and premium service.
Airport Lounge Gastronomy
The gastronomic experience provided in airport lounges through high-quality food, chef-led menus, premium beverages and personalized service.
Unified Guest Spend
A hospitality management approach in which guest expenditures across rooms, restaurants, bars, spas and other on-property services are tracked under a single guest profile and account.
Accommodation–F&B System Integration
A hospitality technology approach that integrates hotel room, point-of-sale and food-and-beverage systems within a unified guest account and data infrastructure.
Buy Now, Pay Later Travel
A travel purchasing model in which flights, accommodation or package travel costs are financed through deferred or instalment payment plans.
Spontaneous Travel Planning
A flexible travel planning approach characterized by short decision-making periods and limited advance preparation.
Premium Cabin Travel
A form of air travel involving the use of premium economy, business or first-class cabins that provide enhanced comfort, space, service and personalization.
Offline Map Travel
A digital travel practice based on navigation and trip planning through downloadable maps and location data without requiring an internet connection.
Bioluminescent Beach Tourism
A form of nature-based tourism involving travel to coastal destinations to observe marine bioluminescence.
Solar Eclipse Tourism
A form of astronomy-based tourism in which observing a solar eclipse constitutes the primary motivation for travel.
Location-Based Fitness Event Discovery
A digital service that recommends nearby running, walking, cycling or fitness events based on a user’s location, activity type and personal preferences.
Tai Chi Walking
A low-impact physical activity that combines the controlled weight transfer, posture and mindfulness principles of tai chi with slow and deliberate walking.
Hybrid Fitness Racing
A participatory fitness activity that combines endurance running with strength and functional exercise stations in a standardized competition format.
AI-Assisted Recreation Program Registration
A digital service that recommends suitable recreation programmes and facilitates registration based on users’ age, schedule, activity interests and stated preferences.
Social Bathhouse
A contemporary hydrothermal recreation and wellness facility that combines sauna, hot and cold water experiences, relaxation and social interaction in shared spaces.
Guided Sauna Ritual
A hydrothermal wellness practice in which heat, aroma, airflow, breathing and sometimes performance elements are guided by a trained practitioner according to a structured programme.
Social Run Club
A club-based recreational activity that emphasizes regular group running, social interaction and community building rather than competitive performance.
Food-as-Medicine Culinary Approach
A culinary approach that connects nutrition, functional ingredients and traditional food knowledge with broader health and well-being objectives.
Value-Oriented Menu
A menu design approach focused on increasing consumers’ perceived value through an appropriate balance of price, portion, quality and dining experience.
Premium Instant Food
A convenience food product that combines rapid preparation with high-quality ingredients, enhanced flavour and a restaurant-like consumption experience.
Culinology
An interdisciplinary field that combines culinary arts with food science and technology for the development of innovative food products.
Tepache
A traditional Mexican fermented beverage typically produced from pineapple peel and pulp with sugar and spices.
Ambient-Stable Ready-to-Cook Food
A food product that can be stored at room temperature without a cold chain and prepared for consumption through a short final cooking process.
Three-Biotic Food
A functional food product that combines prebiotic, probiotic and postbiotic components in a single formulation.
Low-GI Functional Bakery Product
A bakery product formulated to reduce glycaemic response while providing additional functional or nutritional benefits.
Tea-Flavored Food
A food product in which the flavour, aroma or components of tea are incorporated into snacks, dairy products, desserts or other non-beverage foods.
Restaurant Beverage Discovery
A food-and-beverage experience in which consumers discover unfamiliar beverages through menus, tastings, pairings and special events in restaurant settings.
Delivery-Optimized Beverage Packaging
A packaging approach designed to reduce spillage, temperature loss and quality deterioration of beverages during takeaway and delivery.
Agentic Hotel Operations
A hotel management approach in which artificial intelligence agents continuously analyse operational data and perform tasks such as reporting, pricing, revenue identification and operational monitoring.
Cloud-Based Guest Room Technology Platform
A hotel technology system in which televisions, digital content, applications and connected devices in guest rooms are managed through a centralized cloud infrastructure.
Travel Premiumization
The consumer trend toward higher-priced, more personalized, comfortable or experience-intensive travel products and services.
Tourism Seasonality Flattening
The process by which visitor demand becomes more evenly distributed across peak, shoulder and low seasons, reducing seasonal fluctuations.
Crowd-Avoidance Travel
A form of travel in which travellers select alternative destinations, periods or routes to avoid overcrowding and high visitor concentrations.
AI-Mediated Travel Discovery
A travel discovery approach in which destinations, accommodation and experiences are identified through answers and recommendations generated by artificial intelligence systems.
Post-Booking Travel Shopping
The traveller behaviour of continuing to search for and compare travel options after a reservation has been confirmed.
MCP-Based Travel Distribution
A digital travel distribution approach that enables artificial intelligence agents to access travel inventory, pricing, booking and servicing functions through Model Context Protocol connections.
Hotel Day Pass
A hotel service that allows non-staying guests to use facilities such as pools, spas and fitness centres for a specified day or period for a fee.
Touchless Airport Identity Verification
The airport passenger-processing practice of verifying a traveller’s identity through biometric or digital identity technologies without the physical exchange of documents.
Vehicle-Accessible Camping
A form of outdoor accommodation and recreation in which direct or nearby access to the campsite is provided by motor vehicle.
Saltwater Fishing Recreation
A form of angling undertaken in marine and coastal waters for leisure, outdoor experience and sporting purposes.
Birdwatching Recreation
A nature-based recreational activity involving the observation, identification and recording of birds in their natural habitats.
Trail Running Recreation
A running-based recreational activity undertaken on natural or semi-natural trails for leisure, social interaction, physical activity and outdoor experience.
Multi-Source Recreation Use Monitoring
A monitoring approach in which the use of recreational areas is measured through multiple data sources, including mobile-device data, automated counters, GPS, observation, surveys, cameras, community science and social media.
Digital Recreation Access Mapping
A recreation planning practice based on presenting standardized information about roads, trails, rights-of-way, waterways and other forms of public recreational access on digital maps.
Off-Premises Beverage Packaging
A packaging practice designed to preserve the quality, portability, leak resistance and presentation of beverages during takeaway and delivery.
Flavor-Forward Nonalcoholic Beverage
A nonalcoholic beverage developed to provide a distinctive drinking experience through its aroma, flavor, texture and presentation.
Beverage-Only Occasion
A consumption occasion in which a customer visits a restaurant or another food and beverage establishment solely to consume beverages without ordering food.
Personalized Hydration
A beverage approach in which electrolyte, caffeine and functional ingredient levels are tailored to individual needs or preferences.
AI-Driven Precision Nutrition
A nutritional approach in which genetic, microbiome, biomarker, dietary and wearable-device data are analyzed using artificial intelligence to generate personalized dietary recommendations.
Radical Food Transparency
A food approach based on providing consumers with detailed, verifiable and traceable information about a product’s ingredients, level of processing, production methods and sources.
Adaptive Wellness Environment
A wellness environment in which lighting, sound, visual stimuli and other environmental conditions dynamically change according to users’ biometric or behavioral data.
Ambient Wellness Design
A design approach in which wellness benefits are embedded in the physical environment through lighting, sound, air quality, temperature and biophilic elements.
Urban Hydrothermal Wellness Center
A public or commercial wellness facility that combines saunas, steam rooms, cold therapy areas, pools, relaxation spaces and guided rituals in an urban setting.
In-Room Wellness Suite
A hotel room or suite model in which wellness facilities such as a sauna, steam room, bathtub or private treatment area are integrated directly into the accommodation unit.
Athlete Wellness Accommodation
An accommodation service specifically designed around athletes’ needs for sleep, nutrition, movement, recovery and competition preparation.
Privacy-Led Wellness Stay
A form of accommodation in which low density, limited access, silence and personal space are designed as fundamental components of the wellness experience.
Nervous-System Reset Travel
A form of wellness travel focused on supporting physiological calm and recovery through breathwork, slow movement, mindfulness, sound therapy and nature experiences.
Cool-Climate Wellness Travel
A form of wellness travel based on choosing cooler destinations or travel periods for physical comfort, outdoor activity and relaxation.
Destination-Scale Wellness
A tourism planning approach in which wellness opportunities extend across an entire destination through walkability, nature conservation, thermal culture, outdoor recreation and public programming.
Urban Recovery Travel
A form of travel involving short-term urban wellness programs designed to reduce sleep deprivation, stress and physical fatigue.
Cocooning Wellness Travel
A form of wellness travel focused on rest, reconnection with nature and emotional recovery in nearby, peaceful and sheltered environments.
Multimodal Travel Planning
An AI-assisted planning approach that uses text, images, audio, files and other digital inputs together to create destinations, routes and travel itineraries.
Personal-Context Travel Planning
An AI-assisted planning approach in which travel itineraries are created by considering the user’s existing reservations, previous preferences and authorized personal digital data.
Loyalty-Currency Travel Search
A travel search practice based on finding and comparing flights and accommodation according to their cost in points or miles as well as cash prices.
AI-Assisted Flight Price Tracking
An AI-powered digital service that continuously monitors flight prices according to travel criteria expressed in natural language and notifies users of favorable price changes.
Agentic Travel Booking
A digital booking model in which artificial intelligence agents compare travel options, evaluate user preferences and complete reservations on the user’s behalf.
Disc Golf Recreation
The recreational practice of disc golf undertaken at an amateur level for leisure, outdoor physical activity and social interaction.
Adaptive Playground Design
An inclusive recreation-area design approach that enables people of different ages, physical abilities and accessibility needs to play together safely.
Sport Mega-Event Participation Effect
A recreation effect in which exposure to large-scale sporting events influences public participation in the sports associated with those events.
Core Hiking Participation
A recreation participation category characterized by frequent and regular engagement in hiking throughout the year.
Savory Cocktail
A cocktail approach that emphasizes vegetal, umami, fermented, salty or culinary ingredients rather than predominantly sweet and fruity flavour profiles.
Water-Based Frying
A food-processing technique in which a specialized water-based process is used to produce a crisp, fried-like texture without conventional oil-based frying.
Microalgae-Enriched Food
A food product enriched with spirulina or other microalgae to increase its protein, iron or other nutritional and functional properties.
Upcycled Food Ingredient
An edible food ingredient produced by transforming food-production by-products or residual materials into products with enhanced nutritional and economic value.
GLP-1-Adaptive Menu
A menu approach offering smaller portions and protein- and vegetable-focused options adapted to the changing appetite and dietary preferences of GLP-1 users.
Multisensory Food Design
A food and menu development approach that combines taste with sensory elements such as texture, aroma, colour and sound to shape the eating and drinking experience.
Messaging-Platform Hotel Booking
A digital booking model in which hotel search, reservation and loyalty functions are integrated into mini-applications within messaging platforms.
AI-Ready Hotel Content
A digital content approach in which hotel information is structured and presented in a detailed, machine-readable format that can be accurately interpreted and matched by artificial intelligence systems.
Conversational Hotel Search
An AI-supported hotel search application that enables guests to find suitable accommodation by expressing their needs and preferences in natural language rather than using fixed search filters.
Regional Sport Fan Travel
A form of travel motivated by watching or experiencing sports that are closely associated with the culture and identity of a particular destination.
Pantry Souvenir Travel
A form of travel in which acquiring local foods, spices, kitchenware and pantry products as souvenirs constitutes an important part of the destination experience.
Hotel Hopping
A form of accommodation involving consecutive stays at two or more different hotels within the same destination during a single trip.
Short-Distance Travel
A form of travel involving nearby destinations that can be reached from home within a relatively limited travel time.
Climate-Adaptive Travel Planning
A travel-planning approach in which destination, timing and activity choices are adjusted according to extreme weather, temperature and climate-related uncertainty.
Screen-Free Family Travel
A form of family travel in which the use of screens and digital devices is deliberately limited to encourage shared activities and interpersonal interaction.
Skip-Generation Travel
A form of family travel undertaken jointly by grandparents and grandchildren without the accompanying parent generation.
Purpose-Led Travel
A form of travel shaped primarily by a specific emotional or personal purpose, such as relaxation, reconnection, meaning or personal development.
Self-Reward Travel
A form of travel undertaken to reward and commemorate personal effort, achievement, development or life changes.