Hospitality and service industries

This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on the Appalachian Trail.

In American Fashion is the first scholarly analysis of the Fashion Calendar, the unique scheduling service and trade publication for the American fashion and creative industries between 1941 and 2014.

Modern cities are increasingly involving citizens in decisions that affect them.

Financial Management in the Sport Industry provides readers with an understanding of sport finance and the importance of sound financial management in the sport industry.

This book provides events management students with an accessible and essential introduction to project management.

From authors used to operating between the commercial, public and independent sectors of the mixed cultural economy, Understanding Creative Business bridges the gap between creative practice and mainstream business organisation, entrepreneurship and management.

The debate over the imposition of sanctions against South Africa indicated that economic sanctions had become a controversial feature of the international political scene.

Financial services institutions like international banks and insurance companies frequently need to adapt to changes in their environments, yet manage risk and ensure regulatory compliance.

Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies.

The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology brings together a set of original and authoritative accounts of all the major areas of current research in Christian systematic theology, offering a thorough survey of the state of the discipline and of its prospects for those undertaking research and teaching in the field.

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review journal, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism.

Food and beverage services are of vital significance in modern times.

Hidden in His Own Story is an invitation to reconsider and re-imagine both the humanity and divinity of Jesus.

This book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT).

Processes of globalization, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities.

Creativity and Innovation in the Fashion Business explores the ways in which creativity and innovation play a central role across the fashion industry, paying particular attention to design and technical perspectives.

This book, first published in 1993, closely examines the United States government's policy toward the Latin American debt crisis in the years 1982 to 1985.

The book provides a holistic approach to wine destination management and marketing by bringing together wine tourism research with research in wine and destination management.

Wine as commodity has received enormous academic attention, while wine as gift has largely eluded significant dedicated research and analysis.

Climate Change and Coastal Tourism includes case studies on climate change and coastal tourism that explore current threats to, and consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal destinations.

Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills-to bridge mind and matter, image and identity.

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

Bar management involves operating and running an establishment that serves alcoholic beverages.

This book examines and offers insights into original, transdisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological perspectives on gastronomic tourism experiences from both tourists and service providers' perspectives.

Hospitality Management Accounting, 9th Edition The success of every business in the hospitality industry depends on maximizing revenues and minimizing costs.

As global tourism faces its greatest threat since World War II, the author draws on over 40 years of industry and academic experience to explore the core themes that underpin crises, their impact on the tourism industry and recovery.

What skills are needed for the future?

This book provides a playground for the readers to practice and develop scientific thinking, by exploring the world of food in a fun way.

Emergency managers and public safety professionals are more frequently being called on to address increasingly challenging and complex critical incidents, with a wider variety and intensity of hazards, threats, and community vulnerabilities.

Getting Boys Up and Running in the Early Years addresses the fact that boys do less well than girls in all areas of learning in the Early Years and continue to lag behind girls in assessments throughout their school careers.

Volunteers are central to sport at all levels, from mega-events to grassroots clubs.

Mathematics for Retail Buying, Ninth Edition, introduces merchandising and retailing students to the most important concepts in retail math through step-by-step examples with practice problems and solutions.

This volume applies a mix of qualitative and quantitative research and case studies to analyze the role that the craft beverage industry plays within society at large.

How-To Guide Written By Practicing ProfessionalsPhysical Security and Safety: A Field Guide for the Practitioner introduces the basic principles of safety in the workplace, and effectively addresses the needs of the responsible security practitioner.

The Employability Market Orientation (EMO) model, which is more extensive than traditional approaches in the field of personal marketing, along with a questionnaire for its measurement, makes the employee "e;anti-fragile"e; behaving as a micro-entrepreneur (workpreneur).

Sustainability has become a core concept in considering tourism planning and development.

The great world hospitality management gurus who are listed in this book include the following: Conrad Hilton, Gaston Acurio, Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, Danny Meyer, Chef Wan, Ferran Adri, Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Anjum Anand, John Besh, Raymond Blanc, Heston Blumenthal, Paul Bocuse, Ettore Boiardi, Daniel Boulud, Anthony Bourdain, Caesar Cardini, Alain Chapel, Julia Child, Chen Kenmin, Michael Chiarello, Atul Kochhar, Bobby Chinn, Fanny Cradock, Alain Ducasse, Sanjeev Kapoor, Wylie Dufresne, Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Keith Floyd, Pierre Gagnaire, Fredy Girardet, Rose Gray, Yutaka Ishinabe, Elijah Joy, Toshiro Kandagawa, Hubert Keller, Thomas Keller, Pierre Koffmann, Susur Lee, Masahiko Kobe, Cyril Lignac, Ludovic Lefebvre, Gaston Lentre, Bernard Loiseau, James Martin, Rokusaburo Michiba, Vikas Khanna, Rick Moonen, Masaharu Morimoto, Koumei Nakamura, Jamie Oliver, Raymond Oliver, Alain Passard, Fernand Point, Wolfgang Puck, Gordon Ramsay, Ken Blanchard, Eric Ripert, Hari Nayak, Jol Robuchon, Michel Roux, Carme Ruscalleda, Marcus Samuelsson, Hiroyuki Sakai, Guy Savoy, Charlie Trotter, Marc Veyrat, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Alice Waters, Marco Pierre White, Pierre Wynants, Jonathan Waxman, Andrew Zimmern, Madhur Jaffrey and Russell L.

With over 30 years experience of risk management in banks, Mark Laycock provides a comprehensive but succinct non-technical overview of risk and its governance in financial institutions.

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The growth of the Chinese economy and the emergence of the Chinese middle class have fuelled the rapid expansion of China's outbound tourism market, with many destinations around the world trying to capitalise on the opportunities created by the growing number of Chinese visitors.

​Die wachsende Bedeutung von Dienstleistungen führt zu einer höheren Serviceorientierung im industriellen Sektor und damit einhergehend verstärkt zu einem Angebot an hybriden Produkten.

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Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest.

Tourism services all over the world currently face rapid changes due to market globalization, intensified competition and the dynamic evolution of new technologies.

Urban environments are prime targets for suicide bombings over the next decade.