Retail and wholesale industries

Political ecology explicitly addresses the relations between the social and the natural, arguing that social and environmental conditions are deeply and inextricably linked.

Since its discovery by German romantics and nationalists, Rothenburg has been an established icon of the German nation and its medieval past.

The aim of politicians is to attract new investment to their city or region in order to develop infrastructure such as telecommunications, transportation, housing or even sport and entertainment facilities.

Despite the rise of 'new' security threats like terrorism, cyber-war and piracy, the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons still hangs over the world.

Although globalization has led to increased cross-border traffic, there has been little examination of how crossing political boundaries affects tourism and vice versa.

The consumption and distribution of food, as well as its production, has become a major public policy issue over the past few decades; what we eat is no longer merely a private matter but carries significant externalities for wider society.

Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience offers a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary research on the tourist experience.

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places.

Cities are staging more events than ever.

This book proposes that sustainable marketing should be founded on a higher level of consciousness, governed by the Eastern ethical principles of dharma and karma.

Managing Airports presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge insight into today's international airport industry.

Vacation ownership is becoming a mainstream travel product.

The growth of the events industry brings with it concerns of sustainable management, the sharing of available resources, and ensuring that people and places are not over-exploited.

How do we understand human-nature relationships in tourism, or determine the consequences of these relationships to be "e;good,"e; "e;bad,"e; "e;right,"e; "e;wrong,"e; "e;fair,"e; or "e;just"e;?

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 reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring.

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics.

Tourism can take many different forms and types but increasingly it is viewed as one of the most innovative industries.

Private online digital currency systems offer people accessible, convenient, and inexpensive everyday financial tools outside of traditional bank-owned and operated platforms.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

Whilst Wine Marketing: a practical guide also looks at theory and existing research, the main focus of this book is on the practicalities of wine marketing.

In order to respond to the dynamic changes taking place in the competitive world of tourism, marketing programs need to be constantly adjusted and updated to take account of new market research.

Over the last two decades, tourism has become firmly established as a recognized field of study and the focus of extensive academic research.

The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation in tourism and there has been a surge in new, innovative digital initiatives to help tourism businesses.

Cross-Cultural Behaviour in Tourism: Concepts and Analysis is important reading for those in the following areas of industry: * Tourism: illustrates the importance of cultural background in the tourist experience and how it is a major determinant in repeat visitation * Marketing: provides an understanding of the cultural background of a destination that is vital when formulating successful marketing strategies * Management: provides valuable examples on how cultures influence tourist behaviour and decision-making, helping managers to develop cross-cultural skills and deal with tourists from diverse cultural backgrounds Tourism is a service industry where people from different nationalities meet.

Tourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism.

Today, an increasing number of people from all over the world travel to Buenos Aires to dance tango.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.

Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services.

Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities.

This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide.

In a world characterized by an encroaching homogeneity induced by the growth of multi-national corporations and globalization, the causes of difference accrue new levels of importance.

Tourism is well established as an important part of the new service economy, and the rewards it offers have stimulated intense competition in the tourism industry.

As researchers in emerging economies, scientists are often the first foreign visitors to stay in remote rural areas and, on occasion, form joint venture ecotourism and community tourism projects or poverty alleviation schemes between local agencies or NGOs, the local community, and their home institution or agency.

Organizational Development (OD) consultants often face dilemmas when they market their services because there is a gap between clients' expectation and the actual role of OD consultants.

Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa offers an accessible and understandable overview of the challenges of integrating sustainability into tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides some interesting recommendations on how these could be overcome.

This handbook provides students with an essential understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to work in the tourism, hospitality and events industries.

Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists.

Quantitative Tourism Industry Analysis is the first book to deal with the input-output, social accounting matrix in a way which readers from a non-economics or non-mathematical background can follow, in order to understand how useful their application would be for tourism industry analysis.

A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada.

An unprecedented exploration of the intersection of events and family studies, Family Events uses events as a lens through which to explore the concepts of families, family practices, family displays and family intimacies.

Tourism Marketing: A Strategic Approach presents a variety of practical application tools, skills, practices, models, approaches, and strategies that are proving themselves effective in tourism marketing.

This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy.

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age explores online museums as sites of contemporary cultural diplomacy.

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

Welcome to the second volume of the Kluwer International Series on ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SECURITY.

Golf is big business around the world.

This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport.

Tourism has often been described as being about 'selling dreams', tourist experiences being conceptualized as purely a marketing confection, a socially constructed need.