Hospitality and service industries

This professional guidebook highlights sustainable tourism development and management for businesses and destinations.

Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs refer to the UN stipulated road-map for development in 17 defined areas, by 2030.

The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won.

The tourism, hospitality and events industries comprise one of the largest and most diverse workforces in the world, creating high demand for graduates with strong technical and managerial competencies.

China's continuing economic reforms since 1978 have substantially altered its economic structure, expanding the service sector, including the tourist industry.

Global Strategic Management in the Service Industry: A Perspective of the New Era covers recent changes within the service industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic and new and emerging consumer trends, providing a holistic view of this new era within the service industry.

From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A.

If you're an information security professional today, you are being forced to address growing cyber security threats and ever-evolving compliance requirements, while dealing with stagnant and decreasing budgets.

In this meticulously curated anthology, exploring the dynamic intersections of creativity, design, and innovation within the healthcare landscape, esteemed experts present novel service design solutions.

This monograph offers a comprehensive examination of responsible tourism, meticulously deconstructing the core tenets of socio-cultural, environmental, and economic accountability within the framework of sustainable tourism.

Values-rich journeys can be described as pilgrimage, spiritual travel, personal heritage tourism, holistic tourism, and valuistic journeys.

Development of Packaging and Products for Use in Microwave Ovens, Second Edition, supports the efficient design of microwaveable food products and packaging materials, explaining all essential aspects in a detailed and systematic way.

In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and into the contemporary religious situation in Japan.

This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra.

The concept of the green economy has now entered mainstream policy debates and been endorsed by a range of United Nations and other organizations.

Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites.

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics.

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally.

The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems.

How does Christian ethics begin?

For the fashion designer seeking employment, a well-prepared portfolio is an essential marketing tool.

This groundbreaking companion offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for tourism.

This new volume takes an in-depth look at the post-COVID tourism and hospitality scenario and how the industry has adapted to the new normal.

In an era where cyber threats loom larger than ever, Navigating the Cyber Maze: Insights and Humor on the Digital Frontier offers a refreshing blend of deep insights and engaging humor to demystify the complex world of cybersecurity.

The Middle East is one of the fastest growing and significant markets in world sport, as well as a powerful source of investment in sport.

The sixth edition of Security and Loss Prevention continues the tradition of providing introductory and advanced coverage of the body of knowledge of the security profession.

This book provides a holistic overview of the major advances that have been made in the context of Service Science with a focus on IT-enabled services.

Strategic Cultural Center Management focuses on private cultural centers and their operational preconditions.

Challenging the Western view of idols as objects of worship, this book explores the role that male idols play in fashion and cosmetics brand marketing in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; including the role of the female gaze.

As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology.

Food is one of the most fundamental elements of culture and a significant marker of regional and ethnic identity.

A restaurant business must meet the requirements set out by the state where it is located.

This book provides step by step directions for organizations to adopt a security and compliance related architecture according to mandatory legal provisions and standards prescribed for their industry, as well as the methodology to maintain the compliances.

Owning a property is a dream for many people, and borrowing from banks is often essential to achieve this.

Revisiting Sustainable Tourism in the Philippines provides a comprehensive investigation into how sustainability across tourism industries can be achieved in practical terms within the Asian context.

Professional foodservice managers are faced with a wide array of challenges on a daily basis.

This book is a complete guide to learning the critical selling and negotiation skills to gain a competitive edge in a challenging business environment.

Conventional wisdom holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats.

This innovative study examines the Olympic programme from a critical feminist perspective, to shed new light on the issues of gender and inclusion at the Olympic Games and in the Olympic Movement.

Highlighting the skills and considerations needed to manage products, this book will also help readers to understand processes such as product development, the supply chain and branding.

Strategic Security will help security managers, and those aspiring to the position, to think strategically about their job, the culture of their workplace, and the nature of security planning and implementation.

The experts at Entrepreneur provide a two-part guide to success.

A compilation of the fundamental knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools require by all security professionals, Information Security Handbook, Sixth Edition sets the standard on which all IT security programs and certifications are based.