Retail and wholesale industries

Along with basic practical reasons, our practices concerning food and drink are driven by context and environment, belief and convention, aspiration and desire to display - in short, by culture.

This book will be crucial reading for students across a variety of disciplines.

Examine essential marketing disciplines and weapons!

Using numerous real-life examples from global technology corporations, and with a foreword from Tim Curran the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Technology Distribution Council, Technology Distribution Channels explores the chain that makes technology products and services available for market and explains how to make the most of each step of the process.

The book is made distinctive by the presentation of practitioner insight allied with academic underpinning to create a powerful new framework of unusual breadth and depth.

This proceedings volume contains papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Management and Technology in Knowledge, Service, Tourism & Hospitality (SERVE 2014), covering a wide range of topics in the fields of knowledge and service management, web intelligence, tourism and hospitality.

This book explores key and topical issues that are emerging in the field of sport marketing, while calling for further attention to the thriving sports industry.

This book demonstrates why and how social activism targeting companies can produce unintended consequences.

Because of the Internet and globalization, the fast moving consumer goods market has been turned on its head and made more competitive than ever.

This invaluable resource shows women how they, too, can become direct-selling superstars--by being the life of the party.

Ambush marketing is a strategy by which a company or organisation uses their marketing communications to associate themselves with an event without being an official sponsor or authorised partner or licensee.

The Latin American continent contains an incredibly rich diversity from which humans derive a range of ecosystem services (e.

This insightful book unfolds the boipara, exploring the acts of thinking and writing about space and place in the context of recent key conversations at the intersections of cultural geographies, mobilities, materialities and heritage studies.

How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities?

This book explores the types of conflicts that occur over marine and coastal resources, the underlying causes, and attempts to prevent them.

China has surged into the 21st century as one of the most rapidly modernizing countries in the world.

Brand Revolution offers a radical new approach to brand management.

This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory.

The papers presented in this work cover themes such as sustainable tourism; ICT and tourism; marine tourism; tourism and education; tourism, economics, and finance; tourism marketing; recreation and sport tourism; halal & sharia tourism; culture and indigenous tourism; destination management; tourism gastronomy; politic, social, and humanities in tourism; heritage tourism; medical & health tourism; film induced tourism; community based tourism; tourism planning and policy; meeting, incentive, convention, and exhibition; supply chain management; hospitality management; restaurant management and operation; safety and crisis management; corporate social responsibility (CSR); tourism geography; disruptive innovation in tourism; infrastructure and transportation in tourism development; urban and rural tourism planning and development; community resilience and social capital in tourism.

Providing clear guidance for anyone servicing internal or external customers, this book offers a framework for analyzing and managing quality using a comprehensive closed-loop approach.

Internationally renowned experts assess the role of retail work in modern industrial economies in Retail Work.

This book charts the history of Australian retail developments as well as examining the social and cultural dimensions of shopping in Australia.

This book puts the trade war between the United States and China in historical context.

Since 2017, the term 'overtourism' has become the buzzword for destinations suffering the strain of tourism.

A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum examines how the National Museum of Korea, as a national repository of material culture and the state's premier exhibition facility, has shaped and been shaped by Korean nationalism.

The Sustainability Debate is the result of a collaboration between academics and members of the Retail Institute predominantly working in retail and packaging industries.

Institutions are fundamental aspects for driving tourism and hospitality globally.

Although one perspective depicts young consumers as vulnerable and passive in the marketplace system, our knowledge of this consumer group will be inadequate if limited to this contention.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the different environmental strategies adopted in the football world to foster sustainability.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Crisis: SME Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic aims to address the conditions for the operations of SMEs during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the governmental support for entrepreneurs in such industries as tourism, manufacturing, recycling, education, and printing as well as the creative industry.

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.

Geographies of Transport and Mobility aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the twenty-first century.

This edited book examines the social realities of migrant traders in the informal economy in South Africa.

The book offers a critical exploration of the integration of AI, blockchain, and metaverse technology in the hospitality and tourism industry to investigate the potential of these technologies in revolutionizing the industry.

n einer Welt, in der der Online-Handel boomt und Rücksendungen zum Alltag gehören, stellt sich die Frage: Wie können Unternehmen Retouren nicht nur als unvermeidbare Kosten, sondern als wertvolle Ressourcen betrachten?

For many in the West, Romania is synonymous with Count Dracula.

Änderungen im Kaufverhalten führen derzeit zu einem tief greifenden Strukturwandel im Automobilvertrieb.

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia.

Traditional shops are facing challenging and unprecedented times.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes surrounding luxury brand management and the core issues faced by luxury firms today.

The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games.

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.

Heritage, Tourism, and Race views heritage and leisure tourism in the Americas through the lens of race, and is especially concerned with redressing gaps in recognizing and critically accounting for African Americans as an underrepresented community in leisure.

This book highlights the major institutional changes in the development of the Japanese retail industry after the bubble economy.

This edited book examines the social realities of migrant traders in the informal economy in South Africa.

Peace through Tourism considers the possibilities for tourism to contribute to efforts to unmask conflict and promote peace.