Hospitality and service industries

An essential guide for finance managers to leverage advanced technology in long-term investing.

Learn how to make ethical decisions on a daily basis.

The Reformed tradition of worship in England has given the English-speaking world the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, and the hymns of Isaac Watts.

Festivals and events vary from small, neighbourhood celebrations through to mega gatherings, and both can be attractive to tourists.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the tourism market development in Central and Eastern European countries.

Cruise Operations Management: Hospitality Perspectives offers a comprehensive and contextualised overview of hospitality services for the cruise industry.

The rapidly changing context of the modern tourism and hospitality industry, responding to the needs of increasingly demanding consumers, coupled with the fragmenting nature of the marketing and media environment has led to an increased emphasis on communications strategies.

The book focuses more on the study of cruise economy industry chain based on the previous editions and the latest trend of China's cruise economy.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2020), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 29th to 31st October 2020.

With The Fashion Design Toolkit you'll learn how tried-and-tested techniques like gathers, pleats, tucks, and twists can help you adapt patterns and create your own original garment designs.

This book provides a critical examination of the origins and development of stakeholder theory within sport management research and expands the existing literature by providing insights on stakeholding in sport from various perspectives, such as governance, communication and marketing.

Food management is a broad process that involves the proper oversight of food selection, preparation, presentation, and preservation.

Marketing Places and Spaces' covers a broad range of issues that hospitality and tourism executives will benefit from addressing, but frequently forget to do so.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought travel to a halt and the global tourism industry has been one of the sectors hit hardest during the pandemic.

Menswear: Business to Style explores the historical beginnings of menswear, setting the stage for today's diverse and exciting industry and preparing students to assume a role in the business as it continues to evolve.

Since the completion of the original writing in 1978, and the publication of this Garland edition in 1987, several important events came to pass which underscored the importance and relevance of the study of the US foreign trade policy toward steel in the late seventies.

The tourism industry is one of the most fragile industries because it can be significantly impacted by outside forces, such as pandemics and health scares, natural disasters and catastrophes, economic crises, political recessions and wars, and more, especially epidemics that occur on a global scale, which can cause societies to weaken or be damaged.

The event tourism business has become more and more essential to community development in countries around the world, helping to increase the appeal of specific destinations and generating huge economic benefits for the communities of the destinations, impacting local economies.

Beach Management is dedicated to building long term relationships by taking care of business, so time at the beach is a fun one.

NFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history.

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice in the emerging field of creative tourism.

The integration of pioneering information and communication technologies has transformed the hospitality sector.

A Textbook of Hadith Studies provides an academic introduction to the Hadith, or the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, which are second only to the Qur'an (Koran) in their authoritativeness within Islamic tradition.

This book discusses current trends, challenges, and opportunities in the fields of business, hospitality, and tourism, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Hospitality And Hotel Management Are Two Most Important Segments Interdependent And Interlinked Each Other.

Fashion Branding Unraveled introduces and explains the concept of brand and the process of brand development.

This book, the first of two volumes, uses a framework of philosophical anthropology, and the concepts of humanistic leadership and humanistic management, to explore the value of work in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Too many financial advisors simply close shop when they decide to exitthe business-squandering untold goodwill and legacy business.

Understand Consumer Psychology to Drive Profits and GrowthWant to know exactly what s driving your customer's behavior?

This book provides a comprehensive overview, including critical aspects of and opportunities for effective sustainability management in today's unpredictable and fragile business landscapes.

Workplace Violence: Issues in Threat Management defines what workplace violence is, delves into the myths and realities surrounding the topic and provides readers with the latest statistics, thinking, and strategies in the prevention of workplace violence.

While the study of animal-human interactions within the context of tourism has been explored in a greater number and diversity of ways within the last decade, the discourse remains divided between traditional tourism academia and outside disciplines 'looking in'.

Although human trafficking has long been a tragic part of history, in recent years it has become an ever-growing problem globally, and in many cases facilitated a modern form of slavery.

Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora.

Wildlife tourism is a growing multimillion-dollar industry within the hospitality and tourism industry.

This book provides accessible, comprehensive guidance on service design and enables practitioners approaching the discipline for the first time to develop the strategic mindset needed to exploit its innovation potential.

The importance of businesses being 'operationally resilient' is becoming increasingly important, and a driving force behind whether an organization can ensure that its valuable business operations can 'bounce back' from or manage to evade impactful occurrences is its security risk management capabilities.

Our days are filled with a variety of known and lurking fears.

This book presents the re-theorisation of travel and transformation.

This book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability.

When Elizabeth Goodman first arrived at the tiny congregation that would become her home as a pastor--a congregation of about seven people in a town of just under a thousand--the longest-standing member told her that though the congregation was small, her preaching need not be.

The Encyclopaedia of Hospitality Management aims to be a general introduction to the literature of Hospitality Management and will highlight some of its principal texts and resources.

In this exciting collection of hymns, Kim Fabricius not only skillfully guides us through the Christian year--from Advent and Christmas, through Lent, to Easter and Pentecost--he also imaginatively explores the church's perennial themes: the mystery of God, creation and providence, suffering and death, worship and prayer.

This edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching.

Our days are filled with a variety of known and lurking fears.

Cross-cultural management is an important facet of the globalized sport industry.

Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, with World Heritage Site designations increasing year-on-year.