Hospitality and service industries

This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat.

Lessons on product, quality, innovation, and longevity from the "e;First Family of Bourbon"e; The Big Man of Jim Beam delves into the life and times of legendary distiller F.

The increasing importance of industrial services and rapid digitalization towards smart and remote services pose opportunities as well as challenges to the manufacturing sector.

Cities are staging more events than ever.

This book addresses data quality management for data markets, including foundational quality issues in modern data science.

This book brings together cutting-edge research on consulting in a single volume, thus helping to make the state-of-the-art in the field of consulting research more accessible, to promote better practices in business, and to spark further research.

This book covers multiple cultural tourism aspects including among others, nature and rural conservation policy and conflicts, reflected in case studies, and ethnic minority heritage and their folklore traditions and performances, as well as tourism activities in the city areas.

Vacation ownership is becoming a mainstream travel product.

Mass communication in the midst of a crisis must be done in a targeted and timely manner to mitigate the impact and ultimately save lives.

The second volume of this handbook develops on and extends the discussion in the successful first volume, published in 2012.

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.

Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums is filled with creative fodder for practitioners who wish to make more memorable and engaging experiences that promote a sense of presence, effectively evoke emotions, tell stories that transport them, and harness visitors' innate playfulness.

Experiences are an important part of our lives and increasingly represent a crucial topic to address for businesses and professionals.

Here is an engaging overview of the development of, definition of, and approach to modern geotourism, a growing movement to help sustain and showcase the distinctive geographical characteristics of many places around the world.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2021), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 4 to 6 November 2021.

This is the first book to provide the student of tourism, hospitality and events with all that they need to undertake statistical analysis using SPSS for research in their industry.

Service Design is an eminently practical guide to designing services that work for people.

Good qualitative research can help sport management researchers and industry professionals solve difficult problems and better understand their organisations, stakeholders and performance.

This book aims to explore the social and cultural issues within the economic changes that have given rise to service work.

The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively.

The aim of this book is to inspire and encourage project practitioners, executives, and beginners in the project management field to develop passion, persistence, and patience.

Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars.

Since the 1990s, heritage studies has emerged as a distinct academic field, and practices and rhetoric drawn from mainstream corporate management and strategic planning have become widespread.

The tourism industry is dynamic, constantly changing, and is particularly sensitive to shocks and external factors that are beyond the control of managers.

Truly exceptional prayers, liturgies, poetry, reflections and imaginative worship.

The book explains how change in burial practices take place by focussing on how new practices are processed by local communities.

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of research outcomes on the equity home bias puzzle - that people overinvest in domestic stocks relative to the theoretically optimal investment portfolio.

The international nature of the sport industry presents many management challenges and opportunities for sport organisations.

PMA Best Religion Book of the Year!

This book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities.

This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology.

A comprehensive guide to Judaism's annual celebrations and observances "e;written in a clear, thought-provoking style"e; by the coeditor of The Jewish Catalog (Booklist).

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the world's greatest sporting and cultural event.

This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europe's tourism economy during the 20th century.

As the Church considers prayer book revisions, discover new ways of bringing prayer to life.

This publication titled Encyclopaedia of Catering Technology, Food Service and Hospitality Management manages to address most of the prominent issues related to catering technology, foodservice and hospitality management.

Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before.

In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism—the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism.

This book examines the nature of service design and service thinking in healthcare and hospital management.

Moving towards resiliency is more than just implanting policy and procedure; it is a process that takes organizations on a winding path requiring patience and tolerance.

This book contributes to the present state of knowledge, offering the reader broad evidence on how new digital technologies impact financial systems.

Fully updated and revised in its fifth edition, Event Studies remains the most comprehensive book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about event management and event tourism, focusing on the study of events, the event experience, and meanings associated with them.

How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events?

This book offers a critical examination of the 2023 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women's World Cup, being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

The wellspring to the future global growth in tourism is a commitment toward good policy and strategic planning.

Schlafer looks at the preacher's task at the "e;high times"e; of the church and the secular year, those occasions on which expectations run high and emotions can be intense.

The appeal of sacred sites remains undiminished at the start of the twenty-first century, as unprecedented numbers of visitors travel to Lourdes, Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela, and even Star Trek conventions.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Businessand Economics focuses on latest results from entrepreneurship and SME research,Human Resources, along with a focus on the Tourism industry.