Hospitality and service industries

This new textbook, Hospitality Revenue Management: Concepts and Practices, provides a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the basic concepts and best practices of hospitality revenue management.

This book is an introduction to the management of food and beverage operations within a luxury hotel environment.

This book, first published in 1992, explores the role of the Federal Reserve System in the Great Depression.

"e;If you ain't got no proposition, you ain't got no sermon neither.

The goal of Sustainable Development is clearly to secure economic development, social equity, and environmental protection.

This timely book is a comprehensive overview of customer service principles, theories, and practices.

This edited book represents one of the first scholarly research through an international collaboration project between Japan and Italy to address economic and social values of cultural heritage beyond its inherent-historic, archaeological, or aesthetic-values.

Tourism in Turkey: A Comprehensive Overview and Analysis for Sustainable Alternative Tourism is an informative study that analyzes the Turkish tourism from a variety of different perspectives and sheds light on its vast economic and social impacts.

This book explores the history and politics of motor racing, one of the most popular and lucrative elements in the international sport industry.

International Hospitality Business: Management and Operations will introduce hospitality managers to the most up-to-date developments in hospitality to prepare you for the rapidly changing world of international hospitality.

In today's ever evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity professionals are in high demand.

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively.

This book represents a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date analysis of key sectors in the hospitality and tourism industries in China and India, and will address the market's growing need for information on Tourism in China and India.

Second edition of a wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry.

This book explores how identity plays a pivotal role in tourism consumption.

Just as textile mills and automotive assembly plants have symbolized previous economic eras, the call centre stands as a potent reminder of the importance of information in contemporary economies.

Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature.

Food management is a broad process that involves the proper oversight of food selection, preparation, presentation, and preservation.

Culture- and event-led regeneration have been catalysts for the transformation of redundant urban port areas and for the reframing of the image of many port cities, which notably feature among mega-event bidding and host cities.

Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance.

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.

In Sustaining Cultural Development, Biljana Mickov and James Doyle argue that effective programmes to promote greater participation in cultural life require substantial investment in research and strategic planning.

From restaurants to resorts, the hospitality industry demands strong operations management to delight guests, develop employees, and deliver financial returns.

The art, fashion and wine industries are currently at various stages in their efforts to embrace and transition towards sustainability.

Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, "e;alternative"e; foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption?

Learn about new strategies to improve service, quality, and profitability for quick service restaurants!

Stochastic volatility is the main concept used in the fields of financial economics and mathematical finance to deal with time-varying volatility in financial markets.

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

The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism Few subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying.

Gendered Violence at International Festivals is a groundbreaking collection that focusses on this highly important social issue for the first time.

Celebrating the spirit of songIn A Song to Sing, a Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning music by exploring the spiritual dimensions of music itself.

The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order.

Guru to a new generation of chefs from Chicago to Copenhagen, Spain's Ferran Adri,as been featured on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of our times and touted by the press as an alchemist and a genius.

The FIFA World Cup is arguably the biggest sporting event on earth.

Consumer Behaviour in Sport and Events emphasises the role of consumer behaviour in sport marketing.

Although there is growing interest from governments in participation levels in sport, the extent to which governments actively promote 'sport for all' and their motives for doing so vary greatly.

As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology.

Sport brands are a central element of modern sport business and a ubiquitous component of contemporary global culture.

This book is a step-by-step guide to starting and running a successful beauty salon.

As corporations and governments become more litigious and risk averse, international risk management becomes more complex.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

Compliance is a fundamental control function within regulated industries globally.

From lavish events attended by high-profile personalities such as Princess Diana, Margaret Thatcher, Jacqueline Onassis, and Yves Saint Laurent to the latest creative ventures of Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, and Donald Trump, Ira Neimark, the legendary leader of fashion luxury retail, recounts how he and his talented fashion and merchandising team brought Bergdorf Goodman to its leadership position-an approach, he shows, that continues to inform the most successful designers and business leaders today.

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices.

This is a book about the intersection of architecture and security, about effective crime prevention and counterterror using the built form.

This book provides the first systematic and accessible text for students of hospitality and the culinary arts that directly addresses how more sustainable restaurants and commercial food services can be achieved.

Explore how lifestyle concepts are linked to marketing the hospitality and tourism industryHospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is a comprehensive benchmark review of how lifestyle concepts can be applied to the hospitality and tourism industry.

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