Hospitality and service industries

The dynamic and fast-expanding business events sector plays a vital role in the professional lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide by providing settings in which they can meet for the purposes of negotiation, deliberation, motivation, the dissemination of knowledge, and the celebration of their greatest career-related achievements.

Hotels and Resorts: An investor's guide presents a comprehensive analysis of how hotels, golf courses, spas serviced apartments, gyms and health clubs and resorts are developed, operate and are valued.

Solidarity economy-based alternative spaces result from an interface among structural factors, institutional regimes and forms of collective action that mobilise narratives of change, collective identities and non-capitalist economic practices.

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This book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT).

Norges Bank has been an integrated part of Norwegian economic development from the complicated birth of the new nation-state after the Napoleonic wars to the present nouveau-richness of the Norwegian oil economy.

Tourism Management is a multidisciplinary field of study with the purpose of preparing people with the expertise, commitment, and skills for management, marketing, and operations positions in the expanding industry that provides food, accommodations, and tourism services to people away from home.

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Now in its fourth edition, this text is still the only sport law textbook to introduce sport legal studies from a management perspective and integrate legal strategies to gain a competitive advantage in business.

This is a practical book, but it is not a how-to book.

The purchase and consumption of wine, whether in hospitality environments or domestic settings, has huge anthropological significance underpinned by a discourse of wine appreciation.

Pricing or benchmarking is a process of evaluating the performance of a financial company's products and services or systems, against other businesses, considered to be at the top of their field, by applying a measurement of "e;best in performance.

Working in complex systems brings fresh challenges to leaders, managers, consultants, and those involved in their education.

Measuring productivity is often considered a difficult task for industries in the services sectors.

This book examines the cybersecurity phenomenon, looking at the folklore, the hype, and the behaviour of its practitioners.

Praise for LEARNING PRACTICAL FINTECH FROM SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES "e;Throughout my career I've seen the world of finance transformed by technology, from the earliest days of online lending to the current innovations happening with blockchain and cryptocurrency.

The accelerating pace and diffusion of technological change has taken control of an ever-growing fraction of the world economy.

In an era marked by unprecedented technological advancements, the retail industry is at the forefront of a transformative journey.

A study of the specialty train, including its history, development, and operation beginning at the end of the nineteenth century.

Design and implement successful Web-based courses!

This book examines electric car sharing in cities from a variety of perspectives, from service design to simulation, from mathematical modeling to technology deployment, and from energy use improvement to the integration of different kinds of vehicle.

Over the past two decades, through unprecedented levels of prosperity and changing values, luxury tourism has transformed into a new consumption pattern.

Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god.

This book gathers papers presented at the 2019 Movement, Health & Exercise (MoHE) Conference and International Sports Science Conference (ISSC).

There is a great deal of interest in bringing a better appreciation of ritual into religious studies classes, but many teachers are uncertain how to go about doing this.

The Future of Human-Computer Integration: Industry 5.

Who and what are marriage and sex for?

This book focuses on the tourism industry in conjunction with the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective that it is both negatively impacting the industry while also offering an opportunity to rise from the ashes.

'I've long wished perfumery to be taken seriously as an art, and for scent critics to be as fierce as opera critics, and for the wearers of certain "e;fragrances"e; to be hissed in public, while others are cheered.

Psalms for the Poor talk back to the blunt and beautiful phrases of the King James Bible.

Despite the recent downturn of the economy, people are still flocking to holiday destinations and are still going on tours.

This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the PRC after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s.

The bond market is a key securities market and emerging economies present exciting, new investment opportunities.

For many, being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan has become a curse from cradle to grave.

This book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability.

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

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism.

The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events.

The geotourism industry has grown rapidly in recent years.

Using a range of interdisciplinary ideas, Major Reward and Recognition Events: Transformations and Critical Perspectives is an expert-led, informative volume exploring the global growth of major award shows and prize-giving ceremonies since the start of the twentieth century and outlining their key multimodal components, core functions and transformations over time.

This proceedings book explores future prospects of cultural, heritage, and religious tourism and how it can impact the socioeconomic complexity of a community and future developments.

This third annual volume of the International Place Branding Yearbook looks at the case for applying brand and marketing strategies to the economic, social, political and cultural development of cities, towns and regions around the world to help them compete in the global, national and local markets.

Closed circuit television (CCTV) is experiencing a leap in technology using digital techniques, networking and the Internet.

Restaurantbesuche können ihre Tücken haben: Wie ist die Rechtslage, wenn der Weisswein viel zu warm serviert wird und ein gekühlter nicht zu bekommen ist?

Take Care of Your Customers--or Someone Else Will!

Invites readers to use their own voices to enliven personal and collective worship.

In the most advanced service economies, services create up to three-quarters of the wealth and 85% of employment, and yet we know relatively little about managing innovation in this sector.