Retail and wholesale industries

This timely volume is a novel and important contribution to scholarly literature on gender and tourism entrepreneurship, utilising feminist and post colonial frameworks to interrogate the role of social policies in facilitating inclusive tourism entrepreneurship.

Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys.

Breaking the silence around an all-too-common problem, this book offers insights into the triggers of customer aggression against service employees, explores its consequences, and provides practical advice for handling abusive customers and mitigating the damage they inflict.

The book explores emerging themes, concepts, and issues in ethnic tourism, through examination of theoretical underpinnings and empirical research in various ethnic destinations worldwide.

Breaking the silence around an all-too-common problem, this book offers insights into the triggers of customer aggression against service employees, explores its consequences, and provides practical advice for handling abusive customers and mitigating the damage they inflict.

Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys.

The book explores emerging themes, concepts, and issues in ethnic tourism, through examination of theoretical underpinnings and empirical research in various ethnic destinations worldwide.

This volume examines important topical issues in normative trade theory and welfare economics.

This book analyzes spatial and temporal patterns of international trade from a geographical perspective.

Within manufacturing industries, lean manufacturing and systems rooted in lean principles stand out as the most effective tool used to enhance productivity, quality, and comprehensive economic, environmental, and social sustainability.

Within manufacturing industries, lean manufacturing and systems rooted in lean principles stand out as the most effective tool used to enhance productivity, quality, and comprehensive economic, environmental, and social sustainability.

The Target Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the big box store to become the retail giant it is today.

This book provides an innovative perspective on class dynamics in South Africa, focusing specifically on how different interests have shaped economic and trade policy.

Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

Contemporary consumer society is increasingly saturated by digital technology, and the devices that deliver this are increasingly transforming consumption patterns.

Over the last decade the concept of clustering has become a central idea for analyzing the competitiveness of nations, industries and firms.

The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics.

The third International congress of Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, TechnoHeritage 2017, was held in Cadiz, from 21 to 24 May 2017, under the umbrella of the TechnoHeritage network.

Casino and Gaming Resort Investigations addresses the continued and growing need for gaming security professionals to properly and successfully investigate the increasing and unique types of crime they will face in their careers.

This book theorises resorts as distinct kinds of urban milieux, capturing the complexity of destinations famous for 'sun, sand and sex' mass tourism.

As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated.

WINNER: Business Book Awards 2023 - Sales & MarketingBoosting retail sales is more important than ever.

Place branding is often a response to inter-place competition and discussed as if it operated in a vacuum, ignoring the needs of local communities.

This original and insightful book explores how horses can be considered as social actors within shared interspecies networks.

Designing with Smell aims to inspire readers to actively consider smell in their work through the inclusion of case studies from around the world, highlighting the current use of smell in different cutting-edge design and artistic practices.

Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies.

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU's entire land territory plus large marine areas.

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets.

Many former mining areas have now lost their industrial function and are now turning to tourism for regional revitalization and community economic development.

To consume tourism is to consume experiences.

With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based onWestern tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal of how tourism is analyzed and understood.

This edited volume is an outcome of the first major collaborative project between Japanese economists and political scientists, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Dieses Buch verschafft Orientierung und liefert konkrete Werkzeuge, Ansätze und Handlungsempfehlungen für positive Veränderungen im System Mode.

This book assesses the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its ramifications for the global economy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Verico discusses the ASEAN economic integration from dual perspectives of time span (trade, investment and finance) and framework (bilateral, sub-regional, regional and regional plus).

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

The 10 Secrets to Selling on the World's #1 Social NetworkFacebook is the perfect tool for reaching out to customers.

This is the first book published in English on the new international value theory, presented by Yoshinori Shiozawa in 2007.

This book presents the intricacies of retailing from both academic and practical points of view.

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today.

Almost all incidences of cheating, theft, fraud, or loss can be detected through the surveillance of critical transactions, audit observations, and reviews of key metrics.

This book examines how consumers are protected on the online marketplace in the context of ASEAN countries.

This book is for marketers (from newbies to CMO level) who want to learn why and how to use mobile marketing to engage and convert consumers.

Emerging Trends in Smart Societies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"e; captures the essence of the groundbreaking initiative heralded by the inaugural International Conference on Humanities for Smart Societies 2023 (HMSS 23).

The book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address lessons learned and challenges encountered over the years in different ecological, economic, political and cultural contexts.

Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies.

The Retail Value Chain analyses the changes in the retail industry such as internationalization and consolidation and looks at the strategic options open to companies.