Hospitality and service industries

This book analyzes the 2018 and 2019 men's and women's World Cups to understand how the use of Video Assistant Referees (VAR) affected each tournament.

The Australian Capital Territory is a treasure trove for naturalists, despite being without a coastline, without rainforest or without deserts.

This book provides emergent knowledge relating to physical, cyber, and human risk mitigation in a practical and readable approach for the corporate environment.

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

Practical tools and expert advice for professional event planners Before planning an event, there is much that must be done behind the scenes to make the event successful.

Insider Dealing: Law and Practice is the first work to offer a detailed treatment of the rapidly developing law and practice relating to the complex area of insider dealing.

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

Human Resource Management for Events still remains the only text to introduce students to the unique application of HR principles in the context of a highly complex event environment.

With cloud computing quickly becoming a standard in today's IT environments, many security experts are raising concerns regarding security and privacy in outsourced cloud environments-requiring a change in how we evaluate risk and protect information, processes, and people.

The international nature of the sport industry requires a global approach to sport marketing practices.

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

Tourism is characterized by diversity, enormous growth, and multidimensional impacts on several levels.

Touristische Zielgebiete als geographische Räume sind nach wie vor die "Kristallisationspunkte des touristischen Geschehens".

The history of clothing begins with the origin of man, and fashionable dress can be traced as far back as 25,000 years ago.

Interest in Financial Services Marketing has grown hugely over the last few decades, particularly since the financial crisis, which scarred the industry and its relationship with customers.

This insightful and expert-led volume presents a holistic view of the latest, cutting-edge global research on trends and changes in consumer behaviour in hospitality and tourism, with focus on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on purchase patterns within the industries.

If you lead any group in singing contemporary worship music, love to work toward self-improvement, or just want to learn more about your internal instrument, the voice, you've come to the right place.

A host of natural and man-made disasters have plagued the world in the twenty-first century, many with significant global impact.

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

The hospitality sector is facing increasing competition and complexity over recent decades in its development towards a global industry.

Most discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box.

Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable.

Accounting for Financial Instruments is about the accounting and regulatory framework associated with the acquisition and disposal of financial instruments; how to determine their value; how to manage the risk connected with them; and ultimately compile a business valuation report.

Biases, blind spots and bonuses (or incentives more broadly) have led to numerous risk management disasters.

Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society.

Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye.

Global Legislation for Food Contact Materials, Second Edition, provides the latest regulatory updates, advances and developments on the main materials used for food contact in terms of the global legislation in place to ensure their safe and effective use.

For Efrem Harkham, hospitality isn't just a jobit's a way of life.

This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view.

Finding a cheap hotel is important to budget travellers, whether for an Hawaiian honeymoon, adventure travel in the mountains, or for business.

Fully revised and updated for its fifth edition, Hospitality and Travel Marketing provides students with an international and systematic approach to hospitality and travel marketing structured around planning, research, implementation, control, and evaluation.

The book is devoted to the analysis of promotional material of tourist activities on tourism websites, including walking, dining, and visiting natural and cultural heritage sights, as instances of multimodal texts through a case study of Croatian and Scottish tourism websites.

The Sports Management Toolkit is a practical guide to the most important management tools and techniques available to those working in the sport and leisure industries.

How did Accor, Cendant, Choice Hotels International, Marriott, and Hilton become the largest hotel chains in the worldand what strategies will they use to continue their growth?

Drawing on primary research within voluntary sports clubs in the UK and secondary analysis of the wider international literature on social capital, this text focuses on the micro-processes of social capital development and how they play out in specific social settings.

Since the early times of travelling architecture does constitute an important force of attraction and a vital element in marketing.

Local, regional and national governments play an important role in how tourism destinations are developed and managed.

Few financial professionals leverage the many referrals they receive on a daily basis, thus, missing out on one of their best opportunities for increasing profits and growth.

Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste.

The Western Balkans and associated countries are striving to achieve and foster their economic growth, social well-being, and sustainable development.

This book features the proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT).

Through ten detailed case studies on groundbreaking brands like Vivienne Westwood, Vera Wang, Levi's , and The Gap Inc.

Who and what are marriage and sex for?

Sport ist ein Spiegelbild der Gesellschaft.

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

Exhibiting the Archive examines the role that exhibition plays in archives and analyses the impact they are understood to have on how users and visitors experience the archive.