Retail and wholesale industries

This ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North.

The book represents a state of the art review of key research on small firms in tourism in relation to European integration.

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.

Digitalisation and Organisation Design aims to address key topics related to organisation design and knowledge management in the digital economy with organisational context, particularly in Asia.

The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with the rapidly expanding domain of Event Studies.

This book offers new insights into value co-creation in the context of sport management.

Fully revised and updated to reflect current trends and emerging topics, the fourth edition of Conferences and Conventions: A Global Industry provides an expert-led, comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the key elements of the global conference, convention and meetings industry.

In her study of the opening of the English Lake District to mass tourism, Saeko Yoshikawa examines William Wordsworth's role in the rise and development of the region as a popular destination.

The historic phenomenon of pilgrimage is experiencing a resurgence around the world.

Discover the secrets to success in sport-related tourism and adventure travel!

This book assists the better understanding of value co-creation and co-destruction in tourism development by bringing together different perspectives and disciplines.

Both visitor attractions and events play pivotal roles in the appeal of tourism destination regions to visitors by virtue of being the main motivator of tourist trips and determining consumers' choices.

This book brings together different perspectives of mega-event bidding, hosting and legacies.

This book brings together a diverse collection of case studies, perspectives, and research to explore how craft breweries have interacted with cities and neighborhoods in meaningful ways.

Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals.

The 2019 International Conference on National Brand & Private Label Marketing is a unique academic forum for presenting and discussing original, rigorous and significant contributions from researchers around the world on marketing issues that retailers, store brand managers and national brand managers are facing.

For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape.

Now fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of this bestselling text provides students with a vital understanding of the nature of tourism and contemporary tourist behaviour.

Fashion Trends and Forecasting explores how designers, merchandisers, buyers, marketers and strategists use fashion trend forecasting to predict upcoming trends and understand past or current ones.

This book addresses many of the key themes that are seen as challenges to achieve sustainability and to mitigate climate change impacts in the near future, in the tourism sector.

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

Although the event management field has grown considerably over the last decade, critical, social-scientific studies of the international events industry are rare.

This book offers a fresh perspective of on some of the cutting-edge methodological approaches being used among scholars conducting work on social impacts of tourism.

The global demand for tourism continues to increase as economic growth creates opportunities for its consumption as a lifestyle option across cultures.

Does travel broaden the mind?

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.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and environmental perspectives.

In a rapidly advancing era, a fresh look at the concept of hospitality from socio-cultural perspectives is needed.

Responding to the rapidly changing business landscape (including advances in social media and information technology) and the COVID-19 pandemic where customers, visitors, or tourists have become more connected, accessible, and informed than ever before, many brands and firms are investing in brand management and brand co-creation.

Academically complex and challenging to apply, development and planning are increasingly relevant to the growing tourism industry.

Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts.

This book aims to curate a collection of articles to showcase the latest work and biggest trends shaping the global tourism industry in the past two decades - new technology and the Chinese tourists.

In recent decades, the fast rise of emerging economies, like the BRICS nations, has propelled the growth of tourism worldwide.

Religion and spirituality are still among the most common motivations for travel - many major tourism destinations have developed largely as a result of their connections to sacred people, places and events.

Understanding how places, particularly cities and towns, are marketed to and consumed by tourists, is vital to anyone working in the tourism industry.

Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability from C.

This SpringerBrief offers an academic perspective on the trend of 'pop-up' retailing.

This original social science text approaches marathon running as an everyday practice and a designed event, to draw upon and contribute to the literature on practice theory, urban events, rhythmanalysis and mobility.

This book explores the concept of cultural spaces, their production and how they are experienced by different users.

This single volume gives you comprehensive information on Asia-Pacific gaming!

Second homes (variously summer houses, shacks, baches, cottages, dacha) are a popular cultural phenomenon in many countries and an emerging trend in others.

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s.

Containing original and previously unpublished theoretical and empirical studies, Consumer Behavior in Travel and Tourism will give professionals, professors, and researchers in the field up-to-date insight and information on trends, happenings, and findings in the international hospitality business arena.

Cultural tourism is an experiential tourism based on searching for and participating in new and deep cultural experiences.

Beat Your Competition - Increase Sales - Get More Customers in 90 Days Online marketing expert Aaron Fletcher shows you how to gain more customers in this simple guide to marketing your small business, with quick and easy solutions for creating a successful marketing plan.

Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality is the first textbook to offer students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on service providers as well as on customers, affecting both the supply and the demand sides of the industry - organisational behaviour, and human resource management, and marketing and consumer behaviour.