Hospitality and service industries

This book presents the latest research into the application of information and communication technologies within the travel and tourism sectors.

As the popularity of the national parks grows, so do the challenges of visiting and managing them.

This book explores the relationship between transition and tourism geographies on a global scale, discussing how tourism has been used as a tool to recover from decline or to manage change caused by event-driven, rapid transitions in a region's economy, politics or environment.

A detailed, step-by-step guide to successfully altering and repairing ready-made apparel that will help you achieve the perfect fit and extend the life of your clothing.

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 titled, "e;Encyclopaedia of Hotel, Kitchen, Catering Technology, Food Service and Hospitality Management"e;, provides readers with an introductory overview of hotel management.

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

Der Konferenzband stellt den aktuellen Stand des Wissens und praktische Erfahrungen von Unternehmen und Regionen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tourismus und Klimawandel in Mitteleuropa dar.

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.

This textbook reviews and systematically presents the use of the Internet in public administration and politics.

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.

If you are eager to find out the similarities between sports coach and business manager, and what lessons from the world of sports coaching can be applied to both sports and business management, then this is the book for you.

This fully updated and expanded second edition of Human Resource Management examines the role of human resource management in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Die Digitalisierung schreitet unaufhaltsam voran und bekam nicht zuletzt durch die Corona-Pandemie einen ordentlichen Schub.

Following on from the success of Garden Tourism this latest offering New Directions in Garden Tourism provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visitation.

The hotel salesperson of today has a great many technological innovations to work with that are intended to make the sales job easier and more effective, as well as produce more bottom line results for the hotel.

Exercise Personal Training 101 provides a message of empowerment for personal trainers who believe in the holistic development of their clients.

This volume highlights a broad selection of valuable research work by renowned professionals and scientists from academia and the travel industry, bridging academic perspectives and research with practical applications.

This book discusses the expansion of new activities carried out in Antarctica and the focus among treaty parties on the perceived challenges posed by adventure tourism in the region.

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics.

Despite the significance of tourism to the economic, social and environmental structures of Latin America, little has been documented in the English-language literature about tourism in this region.

Urban Events, Place Branding and Promotion explores the phenomenon of place event marketing, examining the ways in which events are used to brand and disseminate information about a place.

Until now, most available research on innovation in tourism product service and development has focused on concepts, rather than facts.

The marketing of tourist destinations requirescontinuous strategic planning and decision making.

This book investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.

This book is devoted to the analysis of the three main tasks of China's tourism development: Firstly, the theory of tourism development since the initiation of reform and opening-up.

The rise of China will undoubtedly be one of the great spectacles of the twenty-first century.

Sacred Living for Each SeasonCelebrate life: What is sacred living?

The hotel salesperson of today has a great many technological innovations to work with that are intended to make the sales job easier and more effective, as well as produce more bottom line results for the hotel.

If you are eager to find out the similarities between sports coach and business manager, and what lessons from the world of sports coaching can be applied to both sports and business management, then this is the book for you.

To clarify their own thinking, gain confirmation, and plan, customers tell stories about their interactions with sales and service associates.

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

The Internet is making our daily lives as digital as possible, and this new era is called the Internet of Everything (IoE).

Timeless Wisdom is a collection of universal texts for study, meditation, and inspiration, selected by Eknath Easwaran, the originator of passage meditation.

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

To clarify their own thinking, gain confirmation, and plan, customers tell stories about their interactions with sales and service associates.

This introductory text provides readers with a robust understanding of tourism and its industries, including how destinations are developed, marketed and managed, and how tourism impacts communities, environments and economies.

The Economics of Sport and Recreation provides a much needed and up-to-date analysis of sport's contribution to the global economy.

This proceedings volume contains papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Management and Technology in Knowledge, Service, Tourism & Hospitality (SERVE 2015), covering a wide range of topics in the fields of knowledge and service management, web intelligence, tourism and hospitality.

Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world.

This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force.

The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash.

A Practical Guide to Post-Occupancy Evaluation offers high-level pragmatic guidance and case study examples on how to conduct a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) to determine whether a workplace project is successful and uncover the lessons learned for future projects.

Illuminating Dark Networks discusses new necessary methods to understand dark networks, because these clandestine groups differ from transparent organizations.

Each Other's Angels: Practicing Personalism in the Catholic Worker Tradition introduces readers to author Toni Flynn's vision of justice and compassion, informed by the Scriptures and inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.

This book analyzes the Indian service sector''s heterogeneity.

This book presents the re-theorisation of travel and transformation.

The book is a modern primer on propaganda-aspects like disinformation, trolls, bots, information influence, psychological operations, information operations, and information warfare.

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Advanced Theory and Practice in Sport Marketing is still the only textbook to introduce key theory and best practice in sport marketing at an advanced level.