Offering a complete introduction to sport development policy and practice, this book covers key theory, themes, issues, and debates in sport development, without assuming any prior knowledge on the part of the reader.
Due to a historical lack of attention to the importance of modelling, measuring and managing risk, senior bank leaders are struggling to implement unified practices within their financial institutions that could address the gaps posed by risky management behaviour, rogue trading, liquidity crises, prohibited investments in mortgage-backed securities, and default risks aligned with loans.
Worldwide regulatory agencies perform many inspections annually, and all too often investigation and CAPA system violations are at the top of the list of infractions.
Economic Principles for the Hospitality Industry is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of economics in this dynamic and highly competitive sector.
This book explores the concept of the celebrity as a 'Human Fashion Brand' and the effectiveness of the celebrity in promoting fashions and shaping the identity and decisions of fashion consumers.
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.
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.
Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to manage risk through the understanding of threats to corporate assets, determination of current control vulnerabilities, and appropriate safeguards selection.
In this book, Julian Hellaby presents a detailed study of English piano playing and career management as it was in the middle years of the twentieth century.
Since 1975 the leaders of the major western economies have gathered in annual summit meetings to try to agree a unified response to the main political and economic problems facing them.
The rapid proliferation of smart devices has transformed our lives and industries, but it has also created a complex and evolving cyber threat landscape.
Tourism and hospitality services are highly prone to service-failure due to a high level of customer-employee contact and the inseparable, intangible, heterogeneous and perishable nature of these services.
The Professional's Guide to Financial Services Marketing is directed to any financial services professional from individual representatives to executives of large financial services companies who is looking for better ways to create the relevant marketplace differentiation and competitive advantage needed to increase productivity and profitability.
In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism—the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism.
The Complete Guide to Cybersecurity Risks and Controls presents the fundamental concepts of information and communication technology (ICT) governance and control.
Discover the bridge between theory and applied research in the hospitality industryThe success of marketing programs is dependent on the knowledge of the trends in the marketplace.
This book explores the issue of poverty reduction within mainland Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the impact of the private sector and tourism.
Degrowth in tourism is the voluntary shift to rebuild destinations and local economies in a way in which consumption, production and the exploitation of resources are minimal.
This book is a short book about public key cryptosystems, digital signature algorithms, and their basic cryptanalysis which are provided at a basic level so that it can be easy to understand for the undergraduate engineering students who can be defined as the core audience.
This book is an annual research report prepared by the cruise industry experts and scholars at home and abroad invited by Shanghai International Cruise Business Institute based on the current development situations of the international cruise industry, is an important part of the "e;X Book Series"e; of the Social Science Academic Press (China).
This book bridges the gap on the critical issues of ecotourism and direct economic assistance to the conservation of local ecological and human resources.
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