Hospitality and service industries

The book presents a new type of leadership focused on sustainable human development and organizational sustainability, which is based on the self-realization of the person of the leader, which means the satisfaction of their needs, according to the scale of Abraham Maslow, through integral human development in all aspects of life.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "HOTR0509.

A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants.

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism.

This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead.

Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria s emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation.

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed.

Building and Facilities Maintenance Management: An Innovative Operational Approach is a new introductory textbook aimed at students who are studying building maintenance and asset management for the first time as part of their undergraduate or foundation course.

Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in this book as journalist and author Darren Rovell chronicles every astonishing milestone of the company's history.

Did you know that Christmas is not the only holiday celebrated in December?

Fans of baseball, football, basketball, and hockey have long been exploited and oppressed by the monopolistic practices of team owners.

This text is designed for use in a course in an applied international corporate finance for managers and executives.

Beyond the gifts and spirit, Christmas is a definite religious celebration.

You celebrate Thanksgiving every year but what's the true essence of the celebration?

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.

This totally revised book will separate the romantic notions of owning a B&B from the business end by covering basic cost control systems, successful kitchen management, housekeeping, beverage management, room rate formulas, arrival, billing, departure, managing and training employees and more.

Volume II of this series discusses the technology used to implement a big data analysis capability within a service-oriented organization.

Food and architecture, the two pillars of human civilization, have intertwined to such extents to sustain the civilization itself, that the connection between the two has visually ceased to exist.

Service Design is an eminently practical guide to designing services that work for people.

Businesses recognize the need to become more customer focused, but struggle to see how.

Customer value is an overused and mis-understood term.

Understanding footwear design and manufacture is vital for improving the functionality, aesthetics and marketability of a product.

This book tells the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry.

Design and Evaluation of Physical Security Systems, Second Edition, includes updated references to security expectations and changes since 9/11.

All the world's most advanced economies are dominated by service.

Competition in these fields will thus be driven by strategies focusing on quality of service to add value, as opposed to product or price differentiation.

This International Encyclopaedia of Modem Hospitality and Tourism Management helps readers develop the wide-ranging knowledge and analytical skills they need to succeed in todays burgeoning and dynamic hotel industry.

The present book offers new insight into research methodology specifically designed for service industries, such as banking, hospitality, retail, tourism and leisure; Provides a solid understanding of the theoretical perspectives involved, while exploring the practicalities of designing and doing research work in this industry; and is Suitable for both undergraduates and postgraduates seeking to develop research methods and techniques in hospitality, tourism and leisure management.

This encyclopaedia is one of its kinds in terms of coverage, scope, elaboration, usefulness and futuristic perspective.

Human resources are a key element in ensuring the quality and content of tourism products.

This step-by-step introduction to grading combines the theory of pattern grading with its practical applications.

The author writes:"e;The focus of this book is on Judaism as it expresses itself in the Jewish holidays.

This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic use of mega-events in its modern development.

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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.

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

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

This book deals broadly with tourism planning and development from the perspective of Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination which is fast becoming one of the most popular vacation spots in the European Union.

This book explores the impact of design science and design thinking on tourism planning, gathering contributions from leading authorities in the field of tourism research and providing a comprehensive and interconnected panorama of cutting-edge results that influence the current and future design of tourist destinations.

This casebook provides students and academics in business management and marketing with a collection of case studies on services marketing and service operations in emerging economies.

This book studies the transformation of modern maritimity practices in coastal areas (such as swimming, navigation and tourism) and their implications to the development of Brazilian coastal cities, with an emphasis on the Northeast part of the country.

This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes.

Dieses Übungsbuch ergänzt das gleichnamige Lehrbuch.

This brief presents a concise description of the existing spaceport market, the technologies being tested and developed at them, and the private companies that are making them possible.

The aim of this book is to focus on the role of sports technology and the way that the innovation process is managed.

This book explores all aspects of the sharing economy, pursuing a multidisciplinary approach encompassing Service Design, Spatial Design, Sociology, Economics, Law, and Transport and Operations Research.

This book presents the foundations for the future of tourism in a structured and detailed format.