Hospitality and service industries

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization.

Get up-to-date research and innovative management strategiesOrganizational behavior and human resource management are fundamental aspects in the profitability of any foodservice business.

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

Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs.

The internet and digital technologies have transformed sport and the way that we research sport, opening up new ways to analyse sport organisations, fan communities, networks, athletes, the media, and other key stakeholders in the field.

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important.

Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world.

Now in its seventh edition, Principles of Services Marketing has been revised and updated throughout toreflect the most recent developments in this fast-moving and exciting sector.

Since the 1930s, the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories that have captivated audiences around the world.

This book deploys the concept of 'audiovisual tourism promotion' to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials.

This book looks at various aspects of tourism education in Asian countries and the impacts of sustainable development in tourism education to the Asian student markets.

Kundenerwartungen und Kundenverhalten, technologische Innovationen sowie Verschiebungen in der internationalen Wettbewerbssituation zwingen Unternehmen in vielen Dienstleistungsbranchen, ihre Wertschöpfungsprozesse auf den Prüfstand zu stellen.

Management of supply chains has been evolving rapidly over the last few years due to the inception of Industry 4.

This volume presents a portfolio of cases and applications on technology roadmapping (TRM) for products and services.

Fashion education is changing.

Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor, Information Security Fundamentals, Second Edition provides information security professionals with a clear understanding of the fundamentals of security required to address the range of issues they will experience in the field.

The overall historical perspective sheds new light on the events of the 1980s and analyses the efforts to rehabilitate the industry in the 1990s.

This textbook provides a comprehensive learning resource material for tourism transportation.

This book, first published in 1995, analyses both theoretically and empirically the effects of a material injury clause of the type found in the Trade Act of 1979 on the behaviour of the dumping or subsidised foreign and import-competing domestic industries.

The wealth of data available on sports makes the industry a singular laboratory for observing economic and business behavior and theory.

This book is the first volume to provide a comprehensive account of mega-event planning for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Tourism as a Resource-based Industry presents the conceptual framework of the Norwegian economic geographer Sondre Svalastog and functions as a practical tool for analyzing and identifying resources when working towards a more sustainable tourism industry.

Speak with your Spanish-speaking employees--no prior knowledge of Spanish needed!

Expert advice for financial advisors looking to make the most of social media platforms Social media is everywhere.

This book is the first volume of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT).

Today, tourism is the largest economic sector globally in terms of earnings, and also in terms of number of people employed.

This book, the first study of its kind, examines the economics behind motorsports, in particular Formula One.

In recent years, football's status as "e;the world's sport"e; has shown little sign of waning.

This timely book is the first to critically examine the doctrine of vicarious liability in the context of the sports industry.

Providing in-depth analysis, this book enables readers to understand the theoretical aspects of personal selling and explores the difficulties of selling services which are sensitive to cultural, age and gender differences, and to customers originating from diverse cultural zones.

This handbook provides new dimensions and directions to design tourism education curriculums and transform students' learning.

This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the Global South are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions.

This book helps students to develop a critical understanding of the service business scenarios and strategies used in marketing for emerging markets.

Cutting Edge Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism sits at the forefront of fast-paced developments in the tourism and hospitality industry, highlighting the importance of applied and pure research to address the theoretical and practical problems and gaps.

Following Stalin's death in 1953, association football clubs, as well as the informal supporter groups and communities which developed around them, were an important way for the diverse citizens of the multinational Soviet Union to express, negotiate and develop their identities, both on individual and collective levels.

Careers in banquet operations focus on events that are held for groups which involve the serving and preparation of food.

This book titled, Training Manual for Waiter and Restaurant Owner provides readers with an introduction to the job description of waiter and waiting staff.

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity.

Wie immer man sie bezeichnet, ob als Prädikan­tinnen, Laienprediger oder Laien mit Predigt­erlaubnis: Sie predigen und feiern mit der Gemein­ de Gottesdienst, gestalten Taufe und Abendmahl, manchmal auch Abdankungen und Trauungen.

This book addresses the various sustainability issues that the tourism industry has faced over time like the trend from over-tourism to under-tourism or from tourism in increasingly distant destinations to a new local tourism with new needs.

Düfte sind weit mehr als nur angenehme Gerüche – sie besitzen die Kraft, Körper und Geist tiefgreifend zu beeinflussen.

This book offers students a uniquely concise, accessible and comprehensive introduction to hotel accommodation management that covers the range of managerial subjects and disciplines in the sector.

This book explores inspirational entrepreneurial activities in the tourism industry of Ladakh, India.

This book is compilation of different analytics and machine learning techniques focusing on the tourism industry, particularly in measuring the impact of COVID-19 as well as forging a path ahead toward recovery.

One of the single greatest challenges to security professionals in the 21st century is terrorism.