Retail and wholesale industries

This book evaluates how and why vertical disintegration has occurred in the global corporate hotel industry, as it undergoes a structural transformation.

Contemporary architecture of theme-based design is examined in this book, leading to a new understanding of architecture's role in the increasingly diversified consumer environment.

How companies such as L.

Eine fundierte Kunden- und Wettbewerbsanalyse stellt den Ausgangspunkt für die strategische Absatzmarktplanung von Logistikunternehmen dar.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage and disaster risks.

Insights from Visitor Studies: A purpose-oriented model for museums provides a systematic overview of the value of visitor studies and, for the first time in English, a comprehensive overview of the development of visitor studies in mainland China.

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

Most marketing scholars implicitly consider independent merchants as conservative and passive actors, and study the modernization of retailing via department stores, chains and supermarkets.

This book examines the symbiotic relationship between museums, heritage attractions and tourism, using a range of international case studies.

Retailing in the Twenty-First Century introduces students to the field of retailing with the most current retailing principles and practices.

Many countries have a rich tradition of domestic travel and holidaying which not only predates but exceeds mass international travel.

First published in 1931.

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

This book chronicles the role of travel intermediaries: global distribution systems (GDS), travel management companies (TMC), and online travel agencies (OTA) in the distribution of travel products.

Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance situates our travel imaginaries, those dream destinations on our travel bucket lists, as co-constructed by the tourist industry, state development policies, and community negotiations, and as framed by modernity's new global cultural economy.

Tourism and ecosystems services are interdependant and face unique challenges.

Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events introduces students to key areas of marketing and promotion that are essential if destinations are to compete successfully in the rapidly expanding global business event sector.

Brittany offers an excellent example of a French region that once attracted a certain cultivated elite of travel connoisseurs but in which more popular tourism developed relatively early in the twentieth century.

International Cases on Tourism Destination Management and COVID-19 provides students, lecturers and practitioners with an essential real-life resource on how different tourism destinations around the world have been impacted by, and responded to, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally.

Das Buch führt in komprimierter und verständlicher Form in die wichtigsten Bereiche der Preispolitik ein.

Since the first edition of the title, ecotourism has become a major phenomenon in tourism and society in many countries and regions throughout the world.

This is a handbook for the cultural entrepreneur, offering some of the best examples on practice, franchises, research, innovation and business opportunities in the cultural sector.

Dark Tourism, including visitation to places such as murder sites, battlefields and cemeteries is a growing phenomenon, as well as an emergent area of scholarly interest.

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

This book brings together diverse theoretical perspectives and practical examples of the experience economy in developing and developed economies in tourism-related industries.

This innovative book is the first to explore social entrepreneurship in the field of hospitality, introducing students to the principles of social entrepreneurship motivation, finance, sustainability, issues and challenges, and how these can be successfully implemented in a range of hospitality settings.

A thrifty offering for the prospective thrift-store owner.

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism.

Over the last two decades Outdoor Studies has emerged as an innovative and vibrant field of study.

The world's population continues to grow year after year, putting pressure on all global resources.

Innovative and the first of its kind, this informative and multidisciplinary book explores the socio-cultural significance inherent in event infrastructures.

Brittany offers an excellent example of a French region that once attracted a certain cultivated elite of travel connoisseurs but in which more popular tourism developed relatively early in the twentieth century.

Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse.

Tourist visits used to be a less common activity in the past.

This comprehensive text focuses on the fashion segment of the retail industry.

First published in 1928.

This book undertakes two main tasks.

The spa industry is currently the fastest growing segment of the hospitality and leisure industry with revenues exceeding those from amusement parks, box office receipts, vacation ownership gross sales and ski resort ticket sales.

Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel, 2nd Edition takes an in-depth and comprehensive look at the growing health, wellness and medical tourism sectors in a global context.

Human dignity has experienced limited attention in tourism studies.

Dieses Standardwerk zum Luftverkehr (Fachzeitschrift FVW International) gibt eine aktuelle und umfassende Darstellung der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklungen des Personenluftverkehrs.

Tourism in China has grown rapidly since the country started implementing its open-door policy in 1978.

The first in-depth study of the Indian creative industries, this book provides a comprehensive mapping of the Indian creative industries and its policy landscape, developing and defining key concepts and terms and offering detailed case studies of specific sectors, geographic regions and governance structures.

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.

Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different kinds of events or in different settings.