Hospitality and service industries

The book will follow the precedent set by Dennison Nash's "e;Tourism Social Science Series"e; anthology, "e;The Study of Tourism"e;.

This book strikes a balance between international sporting governing bodies' interests and values enshrined in rules regarding sporting nationality on one hand, and athletes' rights under EU law on the other.

This new volume illustrates how one of the most rapidly evolving industries in the world-travel and tourism-has transcended its immediate economic concerns and has become a major signifier for cultural patterns and cross-cultural communications.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of consumer-brand relationships (CBR) in tourism and hospitality marketing management, including pre-, during- and post-COVID-19 pandemic.

The hospitality industry is vast and very diverse.

This book aims to contribute to the literature and aid in developing a theoretical and practical framework in the area of health and wellness tourism.

The World Bank considers financial inclusion to be an enabler for at least 7 of the 17 United Nation's sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The Asia-Pacific area is notable as one of the fastest growing tourism regions and not surprisingly, tourism in this region has become the major driver of global tourism in general.

"e;Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL)"e;, a peer-review series published annually, is seeking to deliver refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on current literature, contemporary issues and emerging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective.

The Strangeness of Gods combines studies of changes in modern interpretations of Greek religion with studies of changes in Athenian ritual.

This volume examines the economics of aquatic sports.

At a time of profound change in the economic, social, political and sporting landscape, sport development faces important challenges.

This book is devoted to the customization design of product/service system (PSS), making use of a systematic design process and a number of methods, especially Industrial Customer Activity Cycle Analysis, Service Quality Function Deployment, Service Function and Attribute Analysis, Modified Service Blueprint, Multi-Objective Optimization and Multi-Criteria Recommendation Method.

Travelling has always been a favorite pastime of the affluent, Every year, people from across the glob land in India to ether holidaying or for research and excursion purposes.

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology.

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.

Throughout human history, until the 20 Century, the opportunities and luxuries afforded by tourism were severely limited, or almost non-existent.

This economic analysis of the professional football industry presents original research and existing literature.

This book examines the critical issue of environmental pollutants produced by the textiles industry.

The nexus of human mobility and communication is intricate, and this volume uncovers the deep-rooted significance of tourism and media .

Marketing a small, independently owned lodging business can be difficult.

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.

This timely and innovative book offers an introduction to a range of creative methods, providing both empirical and conceptual guidance.

Chaos Organization and Disaster Management offers a scholarly survey of disaster response behavior and management in the face of natural and manmade catastrophe.

The field of sports development is becoming ever more professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of those working in private or national sports institutions higher than they have ever been.

Open banking ends the proprietary control of customer information by banks and allows customers to share their banking financial data with third parties as a matter of right.

Since its first publication, Classic Tailoring Techniques for Menswear has been the authoritative resource for custom hand tailoring production.

The SCM Studyguide: Liturgy, 2nd Edition is an introduction to liturgy that considers the basic 'buliding blocks' needed to grasp the subject area.

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this textbook offers a complete introduction to consumer behaviour in sport and recreation.

More than a million tourists visit religious landmarks in San Antonio, Texas, each year, observing and sometimes participating in religious activities there.

By raising questions and providing scenarios for success, this book embraces fashion brand development in current turbulent retail environments.

This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of events and well-being, adopting a much-needed critical approach to the study of events.

Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and possibly hostile areas.

Guide to Producing a Fashion Show, Fourth Edition, explains all aspects of fashion show production including: reasons to produce a show, planning, model selection, merchandise selection, staging and music, budgeting, show preparation, execution, and evaluation.

This book introduces new healthcare managers to the skills they need to transition and succeed in their managerial roles.

Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region.

Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling.

There is evident lineage between the concepts of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) and tourism, represented through evocative marketing material, the commoditisation of the TEFL product, teacher motivations and experiences.

Clarifying the purpose and place of strategy in an information security program, this book explains how to select, develop, and deploy the security strategy best suited to your organization.

This book provides an overview of economic espionage as practiced by a range of nations from around the world focusing on the mass scale in which information is being taken for China's growth and development.

Once a luxury that only the elite could afford, fashion is now accessible to all.

This fascinating collection of essays explores the complex economic, political, cultural and social claims over sport, from multi-disciplinary perspectives including philosophy, history, political science and management.

Events Management is a rapidly expanding discipline with growing student numbers however currently there are no specifically focused Research Methods texts available to serve this growing cohort.

Virtually all large banks and other financial institutions in the UK and internationally are public limited liability companies whose shares are listed on one or several stock exchanges.

Americans spend nearly $600 billion a year eating out.