Retail and wholesale industries

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes is a definitive guide to the design and management of forest landscapes, covering the theory and principles of forest design as well as providing practical guidance on methods and tools.

While rooted in traditional marketing principles, successful fashion marketing presents a unique set of opportunities and challenges.

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.

Best practices for implementing Lean techniques in retail and wholesale Essential reading for those who want to learn how Lean provides a competitive edge in today s fast-paced, multi-channel, and cost-conscious environment.

Ambitious projects to modernize European capital cities emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday.

The first academic textbook covering European retail fashion buying and merchandising.

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

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

Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mediterranean showcases and examines the current and future trends in sustainable tourism in this popular region where tourism is one of the leading determinants of economic development.

This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging, and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism.

This new textbook, Hospitality Revenue Management: Concepts and Practices, provides a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the basic concepts and best practices of hospitality revenue management.

Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities.

The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book.

The tourism industry, as one of the main drivers of creative economy, gains more importance in growth policies both at national and regional levels.

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday.

This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

This is a book for aspiring event managers, providing both a theoretical and a practical guide to selecting and working with venues as part of the event planning process.

The new sixth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in theory and practice, and examines the sector in reference to other related forms of tourism, impacts, conservation, sustainability, education and interpretation, policy and governance, and the ethical imperative of ecotourism as these apply to the world's greenest form of tourism.

This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries.

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport is the first book to introduce key concepts and best practice in crisis and disaster management in sport and international sports events.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

Events of all shapes and sizes play an important part in all of our lives.

This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939.

The development of tourism has historically been characterised by enterprising individuals.

'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot.

Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new understanding of tourism's interaction with space, questioning the ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism in the built environment and vice versa.

Since the release of Doug Stephens first book, The Retail Revival, change in the global retail sector has accelerated beyond even the boldest forecasts.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

'Governments and Tourism' is a unique text that studies the general and specific tourism policies from central to local government.

This insightful and timely book is the first of its kind to explore specific policies, issues, challenges, and practices that will enhance the sustainable development of tourism in island destinations, including island nations, twin-island nations, and sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs).

Placed at the nexus between marketing and organisational studies, this book breaks a new ground on the intersection of these two disciplines with design management.

Large and medium sized retailers have increased their international operations substantially over the last 25 years.

This unique volume aims to promote new models of sustainable management in the field of contemporary mural art.

This edited collection, first published in 1985, deals with a number of the major themes central to the study of industrial geography.

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

This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene.

In recent times, festivals around the world have grown in number due to the increased recognition of their importance for tourism, branding and economic development.

The Routledge Handbook of Health Tourism provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the philosophical, conceptual and managerial issues in the field of health tourism with contributions from more than 30 expert academics and practitioners from around the world.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Redefining 'community' and considering the effects tourism has on culture, this detailed book delivers an ethnographic account of both the toured and touring community in Goreme, central Turkey.

This significant volume is the first to use primary research evidence to examine tourism, ageing and the implications of an ageing population for the visitor economy.

The rise of political instability and terrorism necessitates a reassessment of various tourism policy issues.

Across the globe, from established tourist destinations such as Venice or Prague to less traditional destinations in both the global North and South, there is mounting evidence that points to an increasing politicization of the topic of urban tourism.

The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States.

Emphasizing the apparel and beauty industries, Retailing in Emerging Markets, 2nd Edition provides an in-depth study of the retail landscape within Brazil, China, India, Russia, Turkey, Qatar, Thailand, South Korea and Mexico.

This unique text offers a holistic, insightful and timely exploration of sustainable practices across the fashion industry.

Whether physical or virtual, heritage brand or start-up, pop-up stores are everywhere: this book provides the 'why, what, and how' for entrepreneurs and established brands to capitalize on this exciting format.