Retail and wholesale industries

The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls.

Anthropocene Ecologies brings political ecology and tourism studies to bear on the Anthropocene.

What has neuroscience got to do with branding?

Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies.

This book provides a varied collection of recent research relating to small businesses in tourism.

Destination Marketing offers the reader an integrated and comprehensive overview of the key challenges and constraints facing destination marketing organisations (DMOs) and how destination marketing can be planned, implemented and evaluated to achieve successful destination competitiveness.

The Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of theoretical and practical perspectives for tracking and interpreting trends and issues in tourism sustainability, planning and development, management, and technology.

With a special focus on social and cultural aspects of tourism and travel, this novel work brings out the latest in anthropology of tourism by laying the foundations of a new understanding of the intersection between tourism and social science.

With globalisation taking centre stage in the business world and multiculturalism affecting markets and societies, there is a need to understand the ways that customers respond to the changing marketplace from international and multicultural perspectives.

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic directed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities.

'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, used to describe emotional attachment to a particular location.

Written by a career geologist with decades of experience in the field, North America's Natural Wonders guides readers through the most iconic, geologically significant scenery in North America, points out features of interest, explains what they are seeing, and describes how these features came to be.

Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention.

This book presents a series of studies analyzing critical factors that promote and constrain textile & clothing (T&C) production and trade in the Belt & Road (B&R) countries, and forces that drive the restructuring and transforming of global T&C supply chain and operations in the B&R context.

The fourth edition of Merchandise Buying and Management has been updated to cover the most current information on merchandising and retailing.

This book explores ways to drive and increase a brand's most important property, its equity.

Written by a career geologist with decades of experience in the field, North America's Natural Wonders provides everything the reader needs to understand the landscape.

An invaluable resource for real estate professionals and studentsConcise Encyclopedia of Real Estate Business Terms puts the terms used every day in the marketing and study of real estate at your fingertips.

Theory and Practice in Hospitality and Tourism Research includes 111 contributions from the 2nd International Hospitality and Tourism Conference 2014 (Penang, Malaysia, 2-4 September 2014), and covers a comprehensive range of topics, including:- Hospitality management- Hospitality & tourism marketing- Tourism management- Technology & innova

In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas.

Events of all types are produced every day for all manner of purposes, attracting all sorts of people.

Tourism: How effective management makes the difference builds tourism's components and impacts into a total framework showing how it should be made subject to an overall planning and management process.

Asia is regarded as the fastest growing area for international and domestic tourism in the world today and over the next 20 years.

Viral marketing is the key to marketing successin the 21st century, and advertising is one ofthe most important tools in the viral marketingtoolkit.

Exploring the relationship between gender and events, this book delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebration of gender equality in the context of the culture-led event.

Co-creation is fast becoming a buzz word in tourism.

Kaufmännisch denken und handeln und dabei alle rechtlichen Aspekte des Geschäftslebens berücksichtigen, ist Intention des Buches.

Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism is a timely and unique book focusing on management science applications.

This innovative and timely book critically explores and demonstrates how both the tourism system and tourism destinations can adapt and act to mitigate, avoid, or solve injustices in destinations.

Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention.

This book shows stationary retail a way to reinvent itself after Corona, in order to be able to survive against the strong competition of online retail.

The Holiday Makers is thought-provoking and profound in its analysis of the present and future patterns of work and leisure.

Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation is a nuanced exploration of the embodied and affective practices of Moroccans from Europe visiting Morocco for summer vacation.

Historically, the integration of manufacturing methodologies into the office environment has proven to be problematic.

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

Festival and Event Tourism Impacts provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the multi-faceted impacts that festival and events have on a host community, whether positive or negative, and offers recommendations for communities for the successful management of this kind of tourism.

The "e;Serious Leisure Perspective"e; (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience.

Originally published in 1968, this second volume of the Glasgow Studies in Profit, Business Saving and Investment uses the financial data assembled in Volume 1 to test economic theories of the factor distribution income, of the appropriation of profit, of the determinants of investment, and of the return on capital.

This book analyzes the importance of innovation as the key driver of sustained success in the tourism industry and the knowledge sharing process.

Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism.

Around the world every year very many students have to complete dissertations or theses as part of their undergraduate or masters studies in tourism and related subjects.

This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place.

What does 'heritage' mean in the twenty-first century?

This book presents new research on the capacity of big cities to generate new tourism areas as visitors discover and help create new urban experiences off the beaten track.

Retail is defined by disruption; companies either adapt or are replaced by those that will.

More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and researchers.

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism development.

Fragen der Personalpolitik kommt unter strategischen wie auch operativen Gesichtspunkten auch in Handelsunternehmen eine große Bedeutung zu.

Investments in sport, events and tourism in cities and wider regions are part of nascent regeneration strategies linked to transitioning economic bases and place images.